Karen Turner Stitching Life
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Karen Turner's Stitching Life blog is managed by an artist currently based in East Yorkshire, working primarily with textiles and mixed media.
The blog features posts on the author's personal stitching experiences, stitching guides, ongoing work, work descriptions, and more.
Karen Turner Stitching Life
3d ago
It took some doing, but my templates for next year’s daily stitching will fit together widthways and lengthways, so there’s a fair bit of choice about the format. You can see I made a sample to see how it might look. Artist’s impression, I guess you might call it. I made some slight tweaks to ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
3d ago
Currently I’m trying (and, if I’m totally honest, mostly failing) to make sense of the new EU regulations for General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) that take effect from 13th December. The new regulations are designed to ensure enhanced safety of goods supplied by businesses, and naturally that is a Good Thing because we all want ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1w ago
Another month. Days crammed and jostling cheek by jowl, gone almost before they started. In the chaos of our kitchen refurbishment, a little quiet stitching turned out to be a happy oasis of calm each day. As always, I’ve used mostly my own hand-dyed threads. If you want something similar, threads are available here until ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1w ago
A very happy thanksgiving to my friends and customers in the USA – I hope you’re all having a lovely time today. I have a few updates to share: Firstly: I’ve created a coupon giving 25% off all my Teachable courses (that’s courses only, not PDF downloads) for one week only, which you can get ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1w ago
I’ve been having a tidy-up in my workroom and trying to round up All the Sketchbooks. Turns out there are a few more than I thought. Some are complete, some are nearly complete, and some are completely empty. I do like a well-dressed sketchbook, so you know what’s going to happen next. I have a ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1w ago
This has been the week of New Kitchen, which I anticipated (correctly, as it happens) would be Quite Stressful. I needed a little quilting/stitching task that wouldn’t take too much space, effort, or concentration, because of all the noise and disruption. Something that would keep me busy enough to be distracted but available enough to ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
3w ago
You might remember this that began in June. It’s taken five months to put it together, in between other things, but it’s now one complete square, about 37″ or so. I hadn’t originally envisaged ‘proper quilting’ it – as in backing, batting, and top, but somehow that just happened. Normally I would just have used ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1M ago
I say it every month but even with the extra hour from putting our clocks back last weekend, time is still flying by so quickly. It’s unstoppable, of course. Time is all we have, and it keeps on rolling. And time is what I’m trying to illustrate here. A map of time, moments in days ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1M ago
Anyone bored with sketchbook covers yet? Look away now, if the answer is yes ? This one is A4 size, and it’s the sketchbook I’m using for the Laura Horn Modern Mixed Media course. So far the course content is quite different in style from what I would normally produce, but there are some interesting ..read more
Karen Turner Stitching Life
1M ago
This week’s sketchbook cover almost made itself. I had a quarter yard of this glorious Marcia Derse ‘wabi sabi polka dot’ cotton quilting fabric that turned out to be exactly the right size for this one. When something is already the right size, I tend to take it as a sign that it was meant ..read more