New! 4 Seasons of Embroidery from Purl Soho + Egg Press
We are so excited to announce our latest labor of love, the 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit from Purl Soho and Egg Press! To create it we combined a little bit of life's most meaningful pleasures: old friends, natural beauty, and hand crafting. The result is the embroidery kit of our dreams!
The 4 Seasons of Embroidery project started as a friendship between Purl Soho and Portland, Oregon-based design company, Egg Press. We have long admired each other, sharing a devotion to traditional crafting and modern design and an agreement that nature's gifts are our finest inspiration! Egg Press also brought to this project a mastery of the time-honored crafts of letter pressing and typeface design.
But it is our mutual respect for the handmade that most urgently brought this bi-coastal partnership into being. And embroidery, with its stark evidence of the hand's involvement, was a natural place for us to start. We love also that embroidery has the inherent feeling of having lived a hundred years already, whether it was in fact passed on from generation to generation or was just finished yesterday. We took great pleasure in bringing to this timeless feeling the aesthetics of modern design, a look that is pared-down, playful and very fresh!
The 4 Seasons of Embroidery centers around one of nature's most compelling images, the tree. Its powerful message of life and renewal, of family history and natural bounty, is so universal that people of all ages and places can appreciate its dispatch of hope!
Each kit includes four transfer designs that depict a year in the life of a proud tree, from bubbly spring and verdant summer to resplendent autumn and serene winter.
To magnify that message, we also created a simple woodgrain design. We love the raw, organic look of the woodgrain but designed it to give a modern, graphic expression to your more abstract thoughts!
Woodgrain proved to be a wonderful vehicle for our letter and number designs. With two transfer sets of alphabets (lower and upper cases) and a set of zero-to-nine numbers, each kit comes equipped with an amazing way to personalize your projects with initials, wedding or birth dates and messages of love!
Each 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit comes with absolutely everything you'll need to stitch up your own embroidered treasures:
- Reusable transfers for 4 Seasonal Trees, woodgrain alphabets and number, and woodgrain pattern
- 1/2 yard cotton/linen fabric
- 15 skeins of colorful embroidery thread
- Embroidery needles
- A 4-inch wooden embroidery hoop (large display hoop not included)
- A color photo how-to-embroider booklet
- Hook and loop tape for plying thread
And because we love beautiful packaging and hate senseless garbage, all of this is contained in a sturdy tube with a lovely letter-pressed top created by Egg Press. Once you've used what's inside, use the tube for paint brushes or wooden spoons, buttons or knick knacks, dried flowers or chopsticks! Plus, such considered packaging makes this kit a very special gift!
Already equipped? Choose instead, a 4 Seasons of Embroidery Packet, which includes:
- Reusable transfers for 4 Seasonal Trees, woodgrain alphabets and number, and woodgrain pattern
- And a color photo how-to-embroider booklet
For stunning pillows, wall art and linens, the 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit is our idea of crafting bliss! To get started on your own heirloom projects, please click here for the 4 Seasons of Embroidery Kit and here for the Packet. And happy stitching!
September 18, 2012 | Email Share Print | Egg Press, Embroidery, Gifts, Kits, Purl Soho Kits | 22 Comments
Reader Comments (22)
Nina, you are right- The winter tree is just the wood grain tree outline with no leaves.
Thank you both for writing in.
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Molly
The large display hoops are 14" diameter. We are waiting for them to arrive which will be any day now. When they do, you can find them here:
http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/27-embroidery-notions-tools?filters[]=885
Thanks for your comment!
Purl Bee
The hook and loop tape is actually velcro. It helps you ply the thread smoothly . Instructions on how to do it are in the kit.
Thank you for writing in!
Molly
I'm afraid I gave you bad information in my last comment! There is actually enough fabric to make two trees, not four! I'm sorry! If you need more fabric you can find it here, it's Robert Kaufman yarn Dyed Essex in the color "Flax": http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/item/8449-Robert-Kaufman-Essex-Yarn-Dyed
Please get in touch if you have any more questions.
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Molly
We are so sorry to hear of your disappointment! We have since made it clear in the kit's description that the 1/2 yard of fabric is enough for two tree designs.
Since the kit includes so many transfers (the entire alphabet, 10 numbers, a woodgrain pattern and 4 tree designs) that can each be used several times, the fabric and thread we include is meant to get you off on the right foot. If you'd like to order more of the same fabric, it is Essex Yarn Dyed in Flax: and can be found right here: http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/item/8449-Robert-Kaufman-Essex-Yarn-Dyed. And if you'd you like browse our entire collection of DMC Embroidery Floss , it is here: http://www.purlsoho.com/purl/products/item/8232-DMC-Embroidery-Floss
Thank you!
The other idea I had was to just embroider the outer stitches of the actual branches in white. Do you think french knots could work as snowflakes? I'm terrible at french knots though & terrified to start the spring one as a result!
Sorry about the million and one questions, and thanks for a beautiful kit! I'm thinking about embroidering the spring/summer ones on an extremely pale blue linen if I can find one.
Your ideas all sound like they could work great and you can always rip out the stitches if you don't like it! You might want to use the spring tree template and just embroider the pink sections in white, like little snow balls!
Good luck!
Molly
I don't want to start the project without enough of the same fabric. Thanks!!!
We will be getting more in as soon as possible, it's something we plan to sell for the foreseeable future. If you'd like to be informed when we get it back in please drop us a line at customerservice AT purlsoho DOT com
Thank you for writing in!
Molly
I left out the leaves and instead did a split stitch ground in white under the tree, french knotted in some snowflakes, and stitched the tree in alternating patches in white and silver embroidery thread. I love how it turned out! So glad I conquered my fear of the french knot, as the spring one is next... I can't wait! Love this kit.