New patterns!

Yup, that's right; patterns. I guess inspiration struck and then one thing lead to another and here we are with two new patterns in the Polka & Bloom Artfire shop.

First, 'Love Birds' - It's kind of a Valentine's pattern, but you can use it for other times and things. I've been fantasizing about stitching it in Delft blue on white - I think that would look quite pretty.

Next, 'Spring Birds' - January is such a drag, isn't it? I really wouldn't mind if spring started on, say, January 1. Wouldn't that be nice? Well.. until spring actually appears, you can pretend it's here already with these sweet birdies.

Both patterns are in the shop now and you can even buy them together for a mere $7.00!

New! Colour with Polka + Bloom Class

Hi! I can't tell you how nervous I am about writing this.. I will be teaching another e-class. This time about colour. Something which you probably know means a lot to me. I guess you could say that I am slightly obsessed.

The class is called "Colour with Polka & Bloom". And it starts on February 28th. It will run for 4 weeks on a private site and the content will be available for 4 weeks after the class ends.

I am still fine-tuning the content, but it will include colour theory (which is a huge topic!), the difference between colour usage in different media, exercises and examples. The class will be focused on using colour in embroidery and other fibre arts. You can find lots of colour information for painters and photographers etc, but using colour in fibre is slightly different, and there's not a lot of information available on this.

Now, in this fine-tuning phase, I would love your input in the form of this short survey on colour/taking a colour class. It is completely anonymous and you are welcome to take the survey even if you are not interested in taking the class as the point in time.

If you would like to be kept up-to-date with the class, follow this handy link to sign up for the class newsletter. You'll be the first to be able to sign up for the class and newsletter subscribers will also get an early bird price for the class. The first newsletter will go out on Monday, January 31.

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Pattern sneak peek

Tweet tweet! This is a sneak peek at one (!) of two (!) upcoming patterns. They should hopefully be ready for your stitching pleasure sometime next week. :-)

Pattern offer

Hello! This is a special offer for the readers of the Polka & Bloom blog: Buy one, get one free on all single embroidery patterns in the Polka & Bloom Artfire shop. Simply buy the patterns you want, mention "blog offer" in 'message to seller' and I'll issue a refund on the cheaper one.

The offer is scalable, so if you buy four patterns, I'll send you a refund for two and so on. :-)

Offer valid until January 21st.

New pattern: Sweet Posy

Here is the latest Polka & Bloom pattern: Sweet Posy. It is very vintage inspired - and I think even the colours are vintage-y. Atleast I think so. ;-)

Sweet Posy is available in the shop right now. :-)

If you fancy winning a copy of Sweet Posy, or another Polka & Bloom pattern, hoppity-skip over to the Campfire Chic blog where there's a pretty nice give-away going on. The give-away ends on January 28.