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New Alphabet Garden tapestry

New Alphabet Garden tapestry

Hello and welcome to our new Alphabet Garden tapestry. Teddy is a keen gardener and you'll often find him watering his plants or tending to his beehive. Everyone knows that bears like honey and this chap is no exception! Teddy is never short of company in the garden....

Velvet fabric for your tapestry

Velvet fabric for your tapestry

You've finished your tapestry and now it's time for the next stage, the making up. If zips and piping take you out of your comfort zone, help is at hand with our popular making up service. We have a team of skilled upholsterers who can make up your work for you, with...

New! Bouncin’ Blue Cats tapestry kit

New! Bouncin’ Blue Cats tapestry kit

Hello cat lovers! Our new Bouncin' Blue Cats tapestry kit has come to join in the woolly fun, as friends for our Jumpin' Jack Cats tapestry. Jumpin' Jack Cats is a fantastic tapestry design, with its perfect balance of patterned and plain areas. However, sometimes one...

Tapestry kits to make into a specs case

Tapestry kits to make into a specs case

Whirligigs and Birds in a Tree are two new specs case tapestry kits. We photographed them last week alongside our Jolly Campervans. Over the years some customers have asked about stitching some of their favourite designs "in another size". Magic Circles is one of the...

Animal Ark stocking

Animal Ark stocking

We are delighted to be able to reveal our our new Noah's Ark themed Christmas stocking, Animal Ark. Animal Ark has taken a long time to evolve, after several earlier versions. We already have a small Noah's Ark design - Noah's Christmas - but designing is never quite...

Cool cats get in early

Cool cats get in early

A big sunny hello! It's midsummer, that time of year when we gently remind you to send in your finished tapestries for our Making up Service. It's a busy time of year in the garden, but it would be great if you could take a break to dig out (excuse the pun) any...

Fairytale and Owls Christmas stockings

Fairytale and Owls Christmas stockings

More gorgeous Christmas stockings! Today it's the turn of Fairytale and Owls to find a space on our blog. Each of these two designs is in the larger of our two stocking shapes. Let's start with Fairytale. This is a really joyful Christmas stocking as there's so much...

New! Owls Christmas Stocking

New! Owls Christmas Stocking

Look who's come to say hello! It's our new Christmas Owls, on their very own stocking. We think they will receive a very warm welcome, as the latest addition to our larger shaped Christmas stockings. The Owls Christmas stocking is a wonderful partner tapestry to...

Visiting our tapestry workshop

Visiting our tapestry workshop

It's visiting season in our Somerset HQ, and in the last few weeks there's been a steady flow of people popping in to pick up new tapestry projects, or bringing in completed tapestries for our Making up Service. If you're planning a visit, bear in mind that we don't...

Coffee With Friends for Macmillan

Coffee With Friends for Macmillan

We are delighted to announce a new tapestry design, Coffee With Friends, timed to coincide with Macmillan Cancer Support's Annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning on September 30th. The Coffee Morning events are a huge part of Macmillan's fundraising calendar. Last year...

Choosing a tapestry frame

Choosing a tapestry frame

Attention, please! We've spoken before about tapestry frames but as we receive calls and emails every week about tapestry frames we think a refresher course might be in order, to explain the different sizes. The frames that we sell are clip frames (hence the CF<...