STITCH YOURSELF HAPPY
Sewing patterns, sketchbook kits, workshops & retreats from the studio of Lizzie Everard.
From Lizzie’s studio, a range of stitch and sketch projects designed to support your joyful stitching practice.
Since appearing on Great British Sewing Bee, Lizzie—a designer— found the courage to leave her work in graphics and animation to focus on her stitch practice. She wants to share her patterns and ideas, to help you engage with your sewing too and find more happiness, meaning and joy through it.
Sewing patterns, sketchbook kits and more will be available in the online shop very soon, and new retreat dates will be announced shortly!
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Work with Lizzie
Join Lizzie this spring at The Stitch Festival where she’ll be exhibiting with her debut collection of sewing patterns and a selection of sketchbook kits. (Book through the show’s own site.) She is also part of The Big Flock in May – a brand new yarn festival in Bristol!
Our third Glow Sew retreat at Fforest in West Wales is March 27-30th and you can explore details and book HERE.
You can book Lizzie for talks about her time on the Great British Sewing Bee, and what it taught her about the value of slowing down and enjoying the stories behind her makes. Email to find out about her availability.
If you would like to book a tailor-made stitching session with Lizzie at her Bristol studio—for yourself or you and a few friends—drop her a line to find out more.
For the love of stitching
A MANIFESTO
Is it enough just to stitch?
Yes. It is enough.
Why?
Every stitch has love in it.
Even in a sore-finger moment or drift of concentration, stitching is an intentional move to create something. It is making, repair, joining together, invention.
Stitching is belief in something, and nurture.
Stitching is a beautiful curiosity.
And curiosity takes us forward in life.
Stitch, for your life.
It, and you, are enough.
Betty Silk Journal
A Project That Takes Its Time
This is a project that definitely takes its time. It’s the collaboration I’m doing with Raystitch as a guest maker… oh my, it’s a dream! They gave me run of the shop to choose fabric and I can make anything I like with it. I have nearly fallen over with happiness several times.
A Sunday Project
Today’s project felt good. A Sunday morning with the radio on and a sewing project to play with. Sun streaming in. My little rodent pin cushion stands to attention, eager to assist.
A Place to Sit
Sometimes, it’s so hard to switch off the churning thoughts. Writing always helps, although I’d forgotten that. Write it all down! See it laid out plain, understand it, inspect it. Just express it.
And stitching. In stitching, there’s a quiet…
Peace, Serenity & Grace
Yesterday, half way between a misty valley and a sunny peak in the middle of a gigantic gorge, the insatiable need to create struck. No sketchbook, so I played with leaves to try and capture what was going on in my head…
Hooked on Colour
Stripes are great. Aren’t stripes just lovely? Like strata in rocks, layers of life piled one on top of the other. Sometimes they clash and fight, other times settle quietly without much noise.