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Connecting with Nature Tilly Rose

Connecting with Nature By Tilly Rose

Connecting with Nature by Tilly Rose


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Take inspiration from nature and sew, create and craft all year round with best-selling author and textile artist Tilly Rose. Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.

Connecting with Nature Summary

Connecting with Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the Seasons by Tilly Rose

Take inspiration from nature and sew, create and craft all year round with best-selling author and textile artist Tilly Rose.

Boost your creativity, develop mindfulness through making, and create your own unique textile treasures.

Bursting from every page are ideas for unique and meaningful textile artworks, each with a story to tell. From eco-dyeing, cyanotype and weaving to collage, embroidery and slow stitching, Tilly harnesses an exciting variety of crafts to help her connect with Mother Earth in every season. She creates beautiful keepsakes that capture memories and encourage creativity with wild and natural materials.

Discover how to:

  • arrange nature mandalas
  • make your own natural paints and dyes
  • press your own flowers
  • enjoy slow stitching
  • explore sun printing
  • create botanical journals
  • preserve and display your work.

Brimming with inspiration, this is a treasure trove of 12 simple-but-stunning seasonal projects that will draw you closer to nature and improve your well-being whatever your age or ability.

Check out Tilly's Slow Stitch Cafe website: a friendly online community offering a tranquil space to explore slow stitching, make beautiful projects and learn valuable stitching and textile techniques. There are also video tutorials, livestreams and book reviews to help you embrace your own unique creativity. Visit: www.tillysslowstitchcafe.co.uk

Connecting with Nature Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Connecting with Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the SeasonsTilly Rose. Search, $24.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-80092-191-7In this mostly satisfactory manual, Rose (Daydream Journals) shows how to make crafts featuring materials found in nature. A few of the projects dont require any stitching. For instance, the mini flower press consists of several pieces of paper folded in half and tied at the crease with twine, creating a portable booklet where readers can collect flowers for pressing. However, most of the projects utilize a needle and thread, including the nature mandala, which is made by constructing a circular geometric design from found materials, sketching the results, and then recreating the sketch on fabric with stitching. Elsewhere, Rose describes how to create a stitched garland by embroidering plants on scraps of fabric and stringing them together on a ribbon, as well as how to make an eco-dyed wall hanging by sewing fabric stripsdyed at home using red onion skins, turmeric, marigold petals, and other natural ingredientson top of each other in a concentric rectangular design. The open-ended projects provide plenty of opportunities for readers to flex their creativity, though the showcasing treasures project is a letdown, consisting of little more than collecting natural materials and placing them on a shelf. Still, eco-conscious crafters will enjoy this.

About Tilly Rose

Tilly Rose is a creative mixed-media textile artist, designer, tutor and avid journaller. She is based in the beautiful Cambridgeshire Fens, UK, an area that influences her designs amid her whole ethos of crafting for well-being. She feels deeply connected to Mother Earth and uses her walks within the landscape to inspire her.

Tilly combines traditional sewing techniques with a love of layering cloth, adding textures through surface stitching and embellishing to capture the everyday snippets of life, giving her designs a modern twist but always with a beautiful vintage flavour.

She holds workshops throughout the UK and online, and is a guest presenter on craft TV channels, showcasing her products and needlecraft skills. Tilly hosts textile tours in India and plans to extend this to other countries. She also regularly exhibits at craft shows. This is her fourth book with Search Press.

Visit her website: www.tilly-rose.co.uk
Facebook: @Tilly Rose - Textile Artist
Instagram: @tillyrosevintage
YouTube: Tilly Rose Vintage @DiaryofaFenGal
Pinterest: @tilly rose

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Creative approaches 10
Foraging and gathering resources 12
Botanical eco-dyes and paints 22
Botanical journals and chapbooks 32
Weaving 36
Slow stitching 42

Seasonal Projects 46

WINTER

A Little Hygge
Showcasing treasures 48

Treasured Memories
Memory sticks 52

A Walk with Flora
Botanical journal 62

SPRING

Patterns in Nature
Stitch diary 72

Dancing Ballerinas
Nature mandala 78

SUMMER

Seascapes
Woven collage 88

The Language of Flowers
Mini flower press 94

A Moment in Time
Sun printing 104

AUTUMN

Nature's Gems
Garland 110

Fallen Leaves
Artist's brush wrap 114

A Fenland Sunset
Eco-dyed wall hanging 120

Inspiration
Blessing: Textile collage 124

Stitchery 128

Additional information

NGR9781800921917
9781800921917
1800921918
Connecting with Nature: Mindful Stitching and Textile Art Through the Seasons by Tilly Rose
New
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
2024-10-11
128
N/A
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