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.

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

I host a private Facebook group, Stitching Life Community, for hand stitchers.

You can read about my current work on my blog here.


Here are my current courses:


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

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

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.

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

PDF 2022 Intuitive Daily Stitching templates

Three monthly templates (28-day, 30-day, and 31-day) to mix and match for a year of Intuitive Daily Stitching plus notes and directions for basic stitching. This is EXACTLY THE SAME as the template in my online shop. Please don't purchase it twice.

Karen Turner

Karen Turner

£5