Martin Lewis Portrait, Free Embroidery Pattern

Stitch a portrait of Martin Lewis with my latest free embroidery pattern! 

I shared a free "WWMLD"  ("What Would Martin Lewis Do?") embroidery pattern last month, inspired by everyone’s favourite money-saving expert. 

I love Martin Lewis and his no-nonsense advice about financial matters, and as bills and other prices have been sky-rocketing I've been thinking "What Would Martin Lewis Do?" a lot... and I just couldn't resist turning that into a craft project.

 

When I was sketching ideas for the pattern, I drew a little portrait of Martin because portraits are something I'm trying to challenge myself to do more of (gotta keep trying new things and stretching yourself creatively!)

I was quite pleased with how the sketch turned out and planned to share a pair of WWMLD patterns (one with simple text, the other this portrait version)... and then I had an attack of self doubt and decided the portrait was terrible and no-one would want to stitch it anyway so what was the point in sharing it - UGH!

And now...? 

Well, I've decided that January Laura was being too hard on herself and needs to learn to share her work even if it's not "perfect" - because that's an important part of creative development. 

And maybe people WILL want to stitch this (or just print it out and put it up on the wall) as a little reminder to make sensible financial choices, or to resist the urge to turn the heating up! 

Feel the creative fear and do it anyway, right??

Happy stitching, pals xx

CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE MARTIN LEWIS PORTRAIT PATTERN

CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE WWMLD PATTERN 

These patterns are for personal use only: you can use them to stitch as many  as you want for yourself or as gifts, but please don't make any for sale. Thanks xx

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Queen Elizabeth II & A Corgi, Free Embroidery Pattern

Stitch Queen Elizabeth II and a corgi with this free embroidery pattern! 

When the Queen died last year I found her death and funeral deeply sad and moving and wanted to create some crafty projects to commemorate her long life and reign.

I shared an embroidery pattern and a tutorial for sewing a felt portrait, and also had plans (and lots of requests!) for a pattern including a corgi.

Unfortunately work and life stuff got in the way of me finishing up the third design back in the autumn, but it's now available to download for anyone who'd like to stitch it.

You could stitch the Queen on her own, or with the corgi, or just stitch a little solo corgi as a memento of her Majesty (or just because you, too, love corgis!).

CLICK HERE TO FIND THE FREE PRINTABLE PDF PATTERN OVER ON MY PATREON.

I'm sharing all my Queen Elizabeth II patterns for free, but if you'd like to support my work you can sign up to become a Patron, buy me a coffee, or visit my shop. 

If you'd prefer to make a donation to a charity in memory of the Queen that would also be lovely!

Click here for the embroidery pattern I shared earlier.

 

Click here for the templates and step-by-step guide for sewing the felt portrait.

A Liz Truss Embroidery Pattern + A Pack of Tory "Grow The Pie" Seeds

Commemorate the resignation of Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister with this pair of Liz Truss embroidery patterns (or colouring pages, if you'd rather get your pens out than a needle and thread!) - now available in my shop and over on my Patreon. 

A few weeks ago I spent the evening sketching just for the sake of it, and because Liz Truss had been in the news so much I set myself the challenge of drawing her. I've not attempted many portraits before, so I thought this would be quite fun and I was rather pleased with the result.

Obviously my crafter's brain immediately yelled "YOU SHOULD TURN THIS INTO AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN!!!" and once I'd thought that thought I simply couldn't resist.

Then when I was working on the Liz Truss pattern I was thinking about possible wording for the banner. Maybe "Pork Markets!!", or "Grow the Pie!"...? And naturally this ended up with me sketching a pack of Tory Pie Seeds, which also simply had to get turned into a pattern.

I can't really explain why any of this happened (my boyfriend thinks this whole project is absolutely bananas, and he's probably right) but I'm trying to nurture sparks of inspiration and go with the flow at the moment, making more time to make things things "Just Because". 

I enjoyed stitching these, and I'm delighted with how they turned out. They make me laugh and I hope you'll enjoy them, too. 

Click here to find the Liz Truss embroidery patterns on my Patreon! 

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P.S. I think Liz has been a disaster but you disagree we can still be friends and I have no plans to pivot to angry political content xxx