STITCH YOURSELF HAPPY
Sewing patterns, notebooks & journals, workshops & retreats from the studio of Lizzie Everard.
Where is Lizzie?
Join Lizzie this September at Unravel yarn festival where she’s bringing her Knitter’s Notebooks and Lala Pants sewing pattern, amongst other goodies.
Knit & Stitch at Ally Pally – see Lizzie and two Sewing Bee friends pile into an upcycle challenge on Thursday, midday on main stage, then come and find her doing demos at the Quilted Bear stand.
Next fabric pop-up – Oct 11-12th at No Frills Knitting in Bristol.
You can book Lizzie for talks about her time on the Great British Sewing Bee. Email to ask about her availability. If you would like to book a tailor-made stitching session with Lizzie 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
Slow and Lovingly Made
Committing to taking things slowly is—I find—an excellent way of being at peace with the present moment. If something takes time to create or achieve, I have to be pretty certain I’m really behind the idea. How does this slow stitching habit get to leapfrog the other things I might be doing?
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.