Connecting with Nature
Mindful stitching and textile art through the seasons
Description
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 many 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.
About this Author
Tilly Rose is a creative mixed media textile artist, designer, tutor and avid journaler 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.
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