LATEST RELEASES:
Tea Collection
Do you remember the Winter Tea design, featured in the Lakeside Needlecraft Winter Cross Stitch book? Now it is finally available through our website, together with other seven delightful embroidery patterns, collected in three booklets, and inspired by teas, infusions, botanical art, and antique doilies.
CMYKwork. A four-colour interpretation of blackwork embroidery
Taking inspiration from the four-colour printing process, Valentina Sardu studied an interesting variation of her favourite embroidery technique. She calls it "CMYKwork"...
Discover her new design, SOAP BUBBLES!
Introducing a new title in the Vintage Cross Stitch series
Our beloved book series, Vintage Cross Stitch, returns this month with a new title: Vintage Cross Stitch Flowers!
Another "Best Buys" feature in WOXS
Our Swallowtail Butterflies design has been included in the “Best Buys” section of this month's issue of The World of Cross Stitching.
Click here to take a look at the whole Butterflies Collection!
Blackwork Clematis on RicAmare
We are really happy to start this new year with a new design featured in the January issue of the Italian magazine RicAmare.
Here is for you a preview!
Snail Family (RicAmare – October 2016)
How cute are these blackwork snails from the October issue of RicAmare magazine?
The cushion will be on display during the Fall edition of Creattiva fair in Bergamo, Italy, from 6th [...]
RicAmare - July/August 2016
We are very excited to show you a preview of another new design included in the current issue of RicAmare magazine!
RicAmare - May 2016
A new blackwork and cross stitch design by Valentina Sardu is featured in the latest issue of RicAmare magazine!
Romantic Winter Blooms collection featured as a Best Buy in The World of Cross Stitching magazine
Our latest collection of designs has been chosen as Pick of the Month in the "Best Buys" page of The World of Cross Stitching issue 241
RicAmare - March 2016
We are pleased and proud to see the new blackwork design by Valentina Sardu, “Amaryllis”, featured in the March issue of the Italian magazine RicAmare.
The World of Cross Stitching issue 231
The World of Cross Stitching issue 231, on sale from 18 June 2015 in the UK, contains an exclusive blackwork and cross stitch project titled "Blackwork Hummingbird", designed by Valentina Sardu for Ajisai Press.
Blackwork embroidery: a step by step guide
Our designer shares her tips and some basic techniques to follow when stitching her blackwork designs: how to choose the materials, how to start and end stitching without knots, the Holbein stitch, how to work the outlines and the fill-in patterns, and finally, how to create beautiful shading effects.
