It draws instructors and stitchers from all over the world! You can read about next year’s Beating Around the Bush here – where you can also download the digital catalog for the event. They also offer downloadable digital patterns from previous issues of their magazines.ĭid you know they publish insanely beautiful project books? For example, check out their two-book series, A Passion for Needlework – both books are fantastic.įinally, they also host, every other year, a needlework convention in Australia called Beating Around the Bush. I’ve struck up many a conversation on embroidery and needlework in waiting rooms, thanks to Inspirations!īesides the magazine, Inspirations Studios offers kits for the projects featured in the individual issues of the magazine and in their beautiful project books. I like the print version best, because I relish the day it arrives! It’s my lunch break companion and my evening reading – I love going through the magazine from cover to cover! I also tote it with me when I go to appointments and such. If you don’t have a subscription, perhaps it’s time to gift one to yourself? (Or drop hearty hints all over the house?) They offer both a print and digital version, too, so if you don’t have the space for the printed magazine (which makes a stunning coffee table magazine!), you could go with digital. Inspirations Magazine is truly the gift that keeps on giving. You’ll find extensive step-by-step instructions for all the projects and all the stitches used in all the projects and all the finishing techniques, and more! And you will find a convenient tear-out pattern section in the back of each issue, with full-sized patterns. Covering a multitude of techniques, each issue is both an inspirational and instructional project book.Īlong with the projects – which are the focus of each issue – you will find columns that feature reviews of books and products articles that explore designers, textile artists, and other personalities in the needlework world and features that relate human interest stories having to do with needlework. Inspirations is a quarterly magazine, and each issue is packed with projects that will delight the lover of fine needlework. Ever since its inception in the early 1990’s, every issue of the magazine has upheld its reputation as a gorgeous magazine full of beautiful needlework projects. There’s a reason Inspirations Magazine is called the world’s most beautiful embroidery magazine. If you are new to the world of embroidery and you’ve never heard of Inspirations Magazine, prepare to be sorely tempted! If you already have a subscription, the gift subscription will be added to your current subscription. This morning, I’ll announce the winner of last Friday’s installment – Pink Delight, a ribbon embroidery kit by Di van Niekerk – at the end of this article.īut first, we’ll take a good look at today’s gift, which is for three of you!Ĭourtesy of Inspirations Studios, each winner will receive one year’s subscription to Inspirations Magazine, the world’s most beautiful embroidery magazine. Good morning, and welcome to A Stitcher’s Christmas, 2019, installment 5 – which means we are half-way through this year’s series of needlework gift drawings!
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