Sunday 21 June & 28 June 2026, 2 - 5pm BST: Stitching with Nature with Katerina Knight

Online Workshop with  Katerina Knight

Sunday 21 June & 28 June 2026, 2-5pm BST (British Summer Time)

Katerina Knight is a textile artist, writer, and lecturer who has transitioned from a career in the luxury fashion industry to embrace a slow artistic practice. She specialises in one-of-a-kind handmade textile artworks that explore narratives of personal and planetary healing represented through horticulture and slow textile making. 

Katerina trained at the Glasgow School of Art before completing her Masters in Textiles from the Royal College of Art London as a Burberry scholar and was shortlisted for the Heritage Crafts Emerging Embroiderer of the Year 2025.

Now residing rurally, in Malvern, Worcestershire, Katerina enjoys long walks in nature, where she forages for wild plants and cultivates her own in the community garden of her local Buddhist temple.

Workshop Description
This hand embroidery workshop invites you to slow down and connect with the intricate details in nature. Whether you are interested in textiles, gardening, meditation, or would just like to learn something unique, this workshop promises to be soothing and sensorial. 

In part one you will be introduced to Katerina’s practice, learn how you can work with nature not only as inspiration for but form a closer connection with it, using real life floral materials as your embroidery embellishments. Katerina will share tips on the best flowers to grow for this practice.. She will then ease you into stitching, help you will get familiar with stitching with these unusual materials and you will find the delicate hand needed. The dried plant materials you will explore are: lavender, dahlias, cornflowers, statice, and marigolds. You will then move onto creating an embroidery sampler, and guided through a series of traditional hand stitch techniques incorporating these alternative embellishments. The stitches that will be covered are: double darning, couching with a single thread, cross stitch, herringbone, and double herringbone. 

In part two you will advance to creating samples of interlacing embroidery techniques using floral materials - these stitches will be more complex and allow you to create intricate surface patterns on cloth. 

A rich selection of dried plant materials, homegrown in Malvern by Katerina will be provided. You are welcome to enrich your materials and incorporate plant materials from your garden or those foraged for, but please ensure your materials are completely dried out in advance to the session.

Included in Your Material Pack:

• Linen cloth with stitch lines marked out
• Embroidery needles
• A selection of silk threads (you are welcome to use other threads if you would prefer not to work with silk, please ensure they are fine threads)
• Stitch sheet booklet
• Dried floral materials: lavender, dahlias, cornflowers, statice and marigold
  

Additional Materials to Bring:

• Embroidery scissors
• Embroidery hoop (10-12 inch)
• Additional threads if you wish
• Additional dried plant materials if you wish

Level
No experience is necessary, you are encouraged to take each stitch slowly and learn at a pace that is comfortable for you.

Please Note: Material packs are shipped on an insured, trackable delivery service. Any customs duties, delays, lost or undeliverable packages are the responsibility of the customer. Once a material pack leaves the workshop tutors' hands with a tracking number, the seller has no further obligation to the buyer.

If we reach capacity, we may close bookings. Be mindful that we must close bookings at least 3 weeks before the workshop, in order to ship material packs. Book now to avoid disappointment.

Location
This is an online event. A Zoom link will be sent to participants the week before the workshop.

Recording
This workshop will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be emailed to all participants. Please allow 7 working days for us to send you the recording.



Cancellation Policy

All places reserved for workshops are non-refundable. 

If you require additional information about this workshop please contact events@selvedge.org.

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