Polar Bears Slow Stitching Kit

Name: Polar Bears Slow Stitching Kit
Brand: Wattle&Loop
SKU: SlowSPolarBears
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $97.00.Current price is: $87.00. inc GST

or 4 payments of $21.75 with Afterpay

Inspire your own creativity and relax with this beautiful Polar Bears slow-stitching by Wattle&Loop.

Approx Finished Size: 7″ x 8.5″ ( 17.7 x 16.5 cm).

In stock

SKU: SlowSPolarBears Category: Slow Stitching Brand: Wattle&Loop

The Polar Bears kit by Wattle&Loop includes a beautiful ocean blue linen background to work on. For the Mumma and baby bear, there is a fabulous selection of textured, vintage whites and beiges, some Liberty London Tana Lawns as well as antique and vintage tulle and lace that has been collecting especially. There is even a piece of vintage kimono silk in each kit to incorporate into the ice!

Kit Contains:

Pattern
Full-Colour Instructions
Embroidery Needle
Needle Threader
Background Fabric
Liberty of London Fabric
New, Vintage & Reclaimed Fabrics
DMC Embroidery Threads
Made in Australia

You Will Need:

Sharp Scissors
Tweezers (if you have them but are not essential)
Fabric Glue/Glue Stick or Sewing Pins
Fabric Marking Pen/HB Pencil

These kits are suitable for beginner or advanced sewing skills with their easy step-by-step instructions to create a hand-sewn one-of-a-kind textile artwork.

Kits not suitable for children under 12 years old due to small parts.

About Kylie Wright Founder Wattle&Loop

Kylie Wright formally trained as a Graphic Designer in Melbourne, Australia and worked in the industry for more than a decade before starting her business, Wattle&Loop. As part of Wattle&Loop she now runs textile collage & slow stitching workshops in Australia as well as making & selling original textile collage artworks.

Wattle&Loop began while at a sewing retreat with friends where I was gathering up all the tiny, (but lovely!), discarded scraps of fabrics. These ‘scraps’, along with old, but beautiful textile bits & pieces from both of my grandmothers’ collections formed the first “Wattle&Loop” original collaged artworks.

Whilst she did use small amounts of new fabrics where needed (like Liberty of London!!), the vast majority are vintage or reclaimed textiles that she has sourced from across the world for their beautiful, visually rich, old & worn qualities. It is these lovely qualities in the textiles that give her work the “perfectly imperfect” character that appeals to so many.

Each Wattle&Loop Slow-Stitching Kit combines a carefully curated selection of these beautiful textiles, along with some Liberty of London fabric, DMC cotton threads & an embroidery needle. By combining the beautiful textile pieces with slow-stitching & appliqué you can make a truly beautiful textile collage of your own that is completely unique, as while they are similar, no two kits contain exactly the same pieces of fabric!

About Your Wattle&Loop Slow Stitched Kit

We thought it might be helpful to explain a little about the fabrics that your kit contains and how best to use them to make the most of the unique qualities of each piece of fabric.

Wattle&Loop sources new, vintage and reclaimed fabrics from across the world to use in the Wattle&Loop Kits from English country brocantes, French flea markets and American & Australian vintage collectors. When searching for vintage fabrics for the kits they make a point of trying to choose fabrics that may not be of much use to other sewers or crafters because of holes, stains, tears, old worn-out embroidery etc. They believe it is these ‘imperfections’ that add the magic, personality and story to each artwork. In Kylie’s own work she always makes a point of using these ‘features’ of the old fabrics to her advantage to help tell the story of the piece. She does not try to hide them.

Your kit will contain some fabrics that have already had a full life of their own with the marks, holes and traces of old embroidery to prove it! As you incorporate these fabrics into your artwork, you will be giving them a whole new life as a thing of beauty, rather than a bit of fabric disregarded for its imperfections. This is what makes Wattle&Loop Kits unique and special.

Each Wattle&Loop Kit contains a similar, but different, selection of fabrics to every other kit. Once Kylie has used up a piece of vintage fabric, that’s it, she cannot simply buy more of the same. But, by using these special, limited quantity fabrics, you can be sure that your kit is 100% unique; as far from ‘mass produced’ as they come! What is also very important to Kylie, is that by using these fabrics, instead of constantly buying brand new fabrics, we are reducing our footprint on the environment. We are making something stunning out of fabrics that may otherwise have ended up in a landfill.

While you’re making your artwork you can also add your own ‘special touches’ if you like. Do you have any of your own special scraps of fabric that you could incorporate? Perhaps you have a box of old lace doilies or grandma’s old lace hankies that instead of sitting in a cupboard, could be incorporated into your special textile artwork to be admired and enjoyed once again?

Take your time and enjoy the process of selecting your fabrics, cutting out your shapes and arranging them, and enjoy daydreaming about the life each fabric scrap may have had before it was put into your kit. This is what makes a Wattle&Loop Kit special. It is like no other in the world.