Spring Wreath Embroidery Kit by Sarah Smith

This beautiful Spring Wreath kit designed by RSN Tutor Sarah Smith will introduce you to a range of embroidery stitches including the much admired technique of silk shading or 'painting with a needle'. It is worked in pure silk Soie d'Alger from Au Ver A Soie and a variegated silk thread from Stef Francis on the highest quality light grey Belgian linen.

It is aimed at people who have some experience of embroidery stitches, but a detailed 12 page instruction booklet takes you through each stitch in easy steps with full colour photographs to guide you. The stitches covered are: Starting and Finishing your thread; Split Stitch; French Knots; Silk Shading; Stem Stitch; Detached Chain Stitch and Closed Fly Stitch. There is also a clearly annotated Stitch Plan and a corresponding Colour Plan to work from.

It is worked in a vibrant palette of Spring colours and would work well framed as a picture, or stitched upon table linen, perhaps for an Easter table. It all comes beautifully packaged in a traditional, high quality, gusseted 'string and washer' envelope in which you can safely keep all of your bits and pieces whilst you complete your project

Each kit contains: Detailed 12 page, full-colour instruction leaflet; a 'Thread Palette' of all the threads required to complete the project, clearly separated, labelled and cut into prepared lengths; 36 cm x 36 cm high quality Belgian linen with the design printed on; John James needles (x2 size 12 Embroidery, x1 size 10 Embroidery and x1 size 7 Embroidery).

Finished size of the embroidery is approximately 15 cm in diameter.

You will also need embroidery scissors and an 8" ring frame to complete the project

Not suitable for children, kit contains sharp objects