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
Knitting Makes Me Loopy
My animalistic tendencies towards knitting can be problematic. Apparently, it’s not something I can help, so a knit mountain has appeared in my life, and like all good mountains, there are beautiful parts and there are rough, not-very-appealing parts.
Zadie Jumpsuit Joy
Sometimes, fabric speaks to you before you’re ready to actually make the move of wearing it. This pink linen was one such case, but the pull was strong! A ray of sunshine and a good day caught me on my uppers, so the pink Zadie began.
Feeling Sketchy
Having a problem to work on is all very well, but not if it keeps an anxious feeling stirred. I want my sewing to be a calming thing, soothing. I want it to be something that helps me take lovely deep breaths, not hyperventilate! Sketching helps me get there.
What’s My Problem?
One of the main reasons I started taking my sewing seriously a few years ago was because fast fashion was feeling more and more irrelevant and unhelpful to me and our future on this planet. It’s been making less and less sense.
A Stitch Adventure
Welcome to my journal, about a slow and lovingly made wardrobe, and stitching myself happy. There are lots of reasons I sew, from sentimental to political, for nostalgia and for the future.
A Head Full of Ideas
Isn’t it so good when your head buzzes with colour and excitement of new sewing ideas? I love that feeling so much. Show me the fabric!