Inspirations

Referred to by readers as 'the World's most beautiful embroidery magazine', Inspirations is where you find the best classic hand embroidery by leading embroiderers throughout the world. Complemented with superbly styled photography and captivating stories, each issue brings a diverse collection of timeless projects from home wares and bags to gifts and accessories. A wide variety of embroidery techniques is presented with detailed and easy to follow instructions, step-by-step tutorials and full size patterns, making each issue a valuable resource for people new to embroidery and seasoned needleworkers alike.

Natural Affinity • HANNAH MANSFIELD is a hand embroidery artist who lives near Bristol in the UK. She designs and creates embroidery to commission and teaches embroidery online and in person across the UK.

Fearless Colour • “I have no fear of working with colour but what I truly love is working within the values of a particular colour, creating an elegance that makes the work sing.”

LUCY NEWMAN • “MY TRUE OBSESSIONS OTHER THAN EMBROIDERY, ARE NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY. THE NOTION OF MERGING THE TWO HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON MY MIND.”

BETWEEN THE COVERS

Campanula & Butterflies • Beginning in her teens, renowned entomologist, naturalist and artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, produced an extensive collection of beautiful images that did much to reveal the true nature of the life cycle of insects, particularly the spectacular metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly.

Buttercups

Beautiful Budgies • Indigenous to arid areas of Australia, the budgerigar is a type of small parrot and is the only species in the genus Melopsittacus. Wearing plumage of yellow and green with black markings in the wild, these endearing little birds can mimic human speech and are now bred in captivity with blue, white, yellow and grey feathers and are sold as pets around the world.

Floe the Fairy Penguin • It's hard to think of a cuter way to keep a door open than with Floe, a sweet and sassy little fairy penguin!

Strawberry Feast • Sweet summer berries, in garnet and antique red, hang invitingly in this delightful study of a strawberry plant, complete with visiting garden friends.

Bright Spark

Changing Colour • Autumn is a magical time of the year when leaves from deciduous trees lose their summer colour and turn from vibrant green to endless shades of red, orange and yellow, forming a striking display against the bright blue sky.

Greater Bird of Paradise • Some folklorists declare that the Greater Bird of Paradise, a resident of Papua New Guinea, is the creature that inspired belief in the Phoenix, its smoky red flight plumage and wispy yellow display feathers, together, the dying embers of the old and bright flames of the new, as the bird is reborn in fire.

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