Connecting With Nature

Connecting With Nature Synopsis

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 Café 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