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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 11 October 2024
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781800921917
  • Carton Qty: 26
  • Size: 204x260 mm
  • Illustrations: 300
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $24.95
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Connecting with Nature

$24.95

Mindful stitching and textile art through the seasons by Tilly Rose


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Book 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 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.

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Check out Tilly's Slow Stitch Cafe 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

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Creative approaches 10
Foraging and gathering resources 12
Botanical eco-dyes and paints 22
Botanical journals and chapbooks 32
Weaving 36
Slow stitching 42

Seasonal Projects 46

WINTER

A Little Hygge Showcasing treasures 48
Treasured Memories Memory sticks 52
A Walk with Flora Botanical journal 62

SPRING

Patterns in Nature Stitch diary 72
Dancing Ballerinas Nature mandala 78

SUMMER

Seascapes Woven collage 88
The Language of Flowers Mini flower press 94
A Moment in Time Sun printing 104

AUTUMN

Nature’s Gems Garland 110
Fallen Leaves Artist’s brush wrap 114
A Fenland Sunset Eco-dyed wall hanging 120

Inspiration

Blessing: Textile collage 124

Stitchery128

Extra Information


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About the Author

About Tilly Rose

Tilly Rose is a creative mixed-media textile artist, designer, tutor and avid journaller. She is 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.

Visit her website: www.tilly-rose.co.uk
Facebook: @Tilly Rose - Textile Artist
Instagram: @tillyrosevintage
YouTube: Tilly Rose Vintage @DiaryofaFenGal
Pinterest: @tilly rose

Reviews

Art Trails Tasmania

Tilly Roses Connecting with Nature is a thoughtful and uplifting guide that beautifully blends textile art with mindfulness and a deep appreciation of the natural world. 

Perfect for creative souls, stitchers, and mixed media artists, this book encourages a slower, more considered approach to making one that nourishes both creativity and well-being. Rose gently invites readers to step outside, notice the textures, colours, and patterns in the landscape, and bring these inspirations into their stitch work. 

From collecting natural materials like leaves and feathers to experimenting with eco-dyeing, mark-making, and layering fabrics, this book celebrates process as much as finished pieces. The emphasis is on playfulness, exploration, and personal meaning rather than rigid technique or perfection.

Beautifully illustrated throughout with photographs of Tillys own evocative textile journals and artwork, Connecting with Nature feels like a creative retreat within its pages. The projects are approachable and adaptable, making use of simple hand-stitching, found objects, recycled materials, and even elements gathered on a countryside walk or from a local park. Each chapter offers gentle prompts and reflections designed to spark ideas and reconnect makers with the world around them.

This book is not simply about textile art; it is about slowing down, noticing details, and allowing creativity to unfold naturally. It will particularly appeal to those who value mindful making, personal storytelling, and the quiet joy of working with the textures of fabric, thread, and nature.

In summary, Connecting with Nature is an inspiring and nurturing companion for any maker or artist seeking to deepen their creative practice through a closer relationship with the natural world.


Ailish Henderson

Lets begin with the look. It is a soft back, with around 126 pages. There is a helpful stitch diagram located near the back page. The books style is designed to inspire, not direct. It has the vibe of many books currently on offer - to create a sense of calm. I feel that this is achieved through the authors attention to the seasons. We are encourage not just to create, but to create inspired by the colours of nature, the natural hues.

What amazed me about the content, was the pure variety of techniques explored and explained. From natural dyeing, to embroidery to collecting, pressing and drying natures bounty, to printmaking..I felt a little dizzy!

Highlights?

I liked the unusual ideas for projects, such as an artists brush wrap (page 112) garland (page 113) tweed and embroidery (page 61) dressing twigs and sticks (yes really, evidenced page 58)

Is it for a certain audience?

There are projects which require no stitching, for example we can all press flowers and items we find on walks. It could even be an activity we do with our children. So it is not a case of this being only for experienced in embroidery.

The only niche in the audience it may gather is down to subject matter. You may have a few on the same subject of bringing nature to the table in our textile art, or you might like something a bit more glitzy. But nothing can be said about the author or the book itself, it is simply down to us inside, our notions and likes.


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