Fresh Blooms - new pattern

Here's the first Polka & Bloom pattern of 2012. It's called Fresh Blooms - named by one of the subscribers to the newsletter. Yup, sometimes I have... activities like that in the newsletter: help name a pattern and you could win a copy. Always exciting to see the ideas people come up with!

Anyway, back to Fresh Blooms - a very appropriate name seeing as we're just getting started on this year, and what better way to do that than with a bit of stitching. And you can dream of spring while you stitch. I can't wait for spring - it's so cold today, I'm wearing fingerless gloves as I'm writing this!

Fresh Blooms is in the shop now. :-)

Oh and it is also the first pattern in the 2012 Polka & Bloom pattern subscription, and you can download it straight away when you sign up for the subscription.

New stitchy zine

You may have seen it over on my craft blog already: there's a new stitchy, embroidery-y type e-zine in town! It is called &Stitches. Written by me and Nicole, one of my stitchy colleagues.

It's full of fun things like interviews with other embroiderers, patterns, book reviews and more. In this, the very first issue, we're looking at colour, because colour really can make or break a stitchy project. :-)

We're already hard at work planning the next issues of &Stitches!

But back to this issue, we're very excited to have a pattern from the very talented Corinne of SeptemberHouse. See, that pattern is pretty cool right?

&Stitches is available now, check it out! :-)