Hello, I’m Karen


I'm a mixed media and textile artist living in the UK, with over forty years' experience in hand-stitched textile art and mixed media.

Come and join me for some engaging online classes, ranging from simple intuitive stitching to mixed media sketchbook work (or play). Explore and discover your inner artist and create some truly unique work that allows you to recognise and develop your own personal style.

My work has been featured in several magazines, and on artist websites including Colossal and MyModernMet.

You can read about my current work on my blog here, and you can also find me on YouTube here.






Here are my current stitching/embroidery courses:

(all suitable for beginners)

  • Begin a daily stitching practice for mindfulness and calm
  • Make little landscapes from layered scraps and simple stitch, plus learn some easy fabric painting techniques
  • English Paper Pieced patchwork as you've never seen it before - definitely no hexagons here! Learn how to design and make decorative or functional patchwork from irregular tessellating shapes

Intuitive Daily Stitching

Mindful hand embroidery

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£35

Stitch a Little Landscape

Hand-stitch a landscape using fabric scraps and simple embroidery

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£45

Creative English paper-pieced patchwork

Learn the basic paper-piecing techniques and make patchwork from any tessellating shapes, on any scale. English paper-piecing is a slow, quiet hand-stitching technique for using up all those fabric scraps that we end up collecting. We'll make a paper-pieced sampler together to practise piecing various shapes, including curves. I'll show you how to create your own designs and how to turn your patchwork into useful objects.

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£45

Here are my current mixed media courses:


I spend a lot of time working (playing) in sketchbooks because it helps me to explore new ideas, try new techniques, and to grow as an artist. Sketchbooks are enormously important to me for that reason.

The three courses below offer an introduction to a simple sketchbook practice that I hope will enrich your creative life.

  • - Learn the value of making your own sketchbook
  • - Use paint, collage and simple mark-making to explore your unique personal style.
  • - Layer fabric scraps and make simple marks with needle and thread that will further inspire and help to develop your creative style

Make a Simple Sketchbook for Mixed Media

Learn to make three simple sketchbooks and discover lots of ideas for filling them with paint, collage, and mixed media techniques

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£30

Painted Collage Paper and Mark-Making

Learn how to paint your own unique collage papers for mixed media art and sketchbooks, plus learn how to very easily make your own stamps, stencils, and mark-making tools

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£35

Stitched Samples for Sketchbooks

Learn how to turn fabric scraps into beautiful and inspiring samples for your mixed media sketchbook

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£40

Intuitive Daily Stitching with subtitles in English


Learn the meditative art of intuitive hand embroidery with the help of subtitles (in English)

PDF downloads: Intuitive Daily Stitching templates

Here are some templates offering a variety of designs for your daily stitching practice (use the 'view all products' button to access the 2022 template).

PDF 2025 Daily Stitching Templates

These are the templates that I'm using for my Intuitive Daily Stitching practice in 2025. In total, the twelve templates give you 365 daily sections to fill with hand stitches of your choice. The templates will tessellate widthways and lengthways, giving you a few options for the format of your daily stitching. You can make a long strip, a cloth book, a larger rectangular embroidered cloth, or any other permutation you can think of.

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£5

PDF 2024 Daily Stitching Template map

19-page A4-size PDF with instructions for cutting/sticking twelve A4/Letter size pages together to make a complete design measuring about 31" square. This is EXACTLY THE SAME as the template in my online shop. Please don't purchase it twice.

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£6

PDF 2023 Daily Stitching Templates

Twelve monthly A4/Letter size pages with daily blocks for you to fill with the colours and stitches of your choice. This is EXACTLY THE SAME as the template in my online shop. Please don't purchase it twice.

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£5