Connecting with Nature

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. 

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

Table of Contents
Introduction6

Creative approaches10
Foraging and gathering resources 12
Botanical eco-dyes and paints 22
Botanical journals and chapbooks 32
Weaving 36
Slow stitching 42

Seasonal Projects46

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