We have gone live!
Welcome to our first newsletter form Koala Stitching Studio.
Koala's YouTube channel has gone live with its first video - Getting Started in Hand Stitching.
When you have watched the video, be sure to like and subscribe!
Our first series of videos includes:-
Video 1 Getting Started In Hand Stitching - we look at the basics, starting with the fabric, needles and thread you need to practice your stitching. Click here to see the video on YouTube!
Video 2 Running Stitch - that most foundational of stitches comes to life and proves that simple is not ordinary. We decorate a crocheted cowl and a pair of jeans. Video coming soon.
Video 3 Back Stitch - need an outline? We've got you covered. In the first of our Pocket Pals, we back stitch a koala on another pair of jeans, and put some bats on a baby's onesie. Video coming soon.
Video 4 Blanket Stitch - functional and decorative. We add a personal touch to a child's button-up shirt and put some love into a baby's cardigan. Video coming soon.
Video 5 Chain Stitch - join the chain stitch gang. See our from-scratch project to make a pincushion, and add some Celtic flavour to a warm scarf. Video coming soon.
Video 6 French Knot - a small stitch with big impact. A child's shirt gets some cheeky sheep, and we start our exploration of negative space with a letter decorating a baby's jacket. Video coming soon.
We plan to release a new video every Friday
These videos are supported by the Koala Stitching Studio website where you will find blogs and resources to help you try out the stitch and re-imagine or recreate our project. The stitch blogs have detailed instructions and information about the stitches and technical aspects of stitching.
Our project blogs are honest accounts of our experiences in making the pieces. We recount the good, the bad and the ugly. Read our posts about the experience of making the projects. What was easy, what was tricky. What went right and what we would do differently next time.
You will find the project's difficulty described as well as materials needed and time taken to complete. Patterns we use to create the projects will be available in the resources section of the website, often for free.
We are not experts in hand stitching, indeed I am a beginner. So you will be able to see just what is possible to create by anyone, not just the experienced stitcher.
Also you will see both left handed stitching and right handed stitching. Our tutorial videos will be right handed and we will tell you in each project which hand you see at work.
In the Koala Stitching Studio website, you will find much more than stitching with needle and thread. We will demonstrate how to make various stitches, starting from the most basic and progressing to more complex stitches. We will also be combining those stitches with up-cycling and repairing clothes, creating utility and decorative pieces, mixing it up with fabric paint and beading, and including slow stitching as well.
Each series of videos will be capped off with some project and slow stitching activities which will combine and reinforce the stitches we have just learnt into a piece which shows that even the simple stitches can be used to make something creative and beautiful.
Social media has brought forward creative and inspirational ideas like never before. Koala Stitching Studio aims to take these inspirations and turn them into accomplishments that show our unique creativity in a way that is both useful and beautiful, and help you do the same.
Welcome to the creative journey......
Click here to visit our website for more inspiring ideas.
We look forward to seeing you at the Koala Stitching Studio web site.
Sunday 4th May 2025