Jane Eyre quote Charlotte Bronte hand embroidered hoop art | order #bookstitch2018 Little Sasquatch embroidery project

This Jane Eyre inspired hoop are was created as part of my #bookstitch2018 project. I read the great novel by Charlotte Bronte and was particularly struck by a passage in which Jane is gazing upon a full moon and feels it is giving her a message: "My daughter, flee temptation!". I designed a detailed and accurate full moon pattern and embroidered it using multiple shades of grey and silver for a realistic effect from a distance.

This piece is hand embroidered in grey, silver and white thread on navy blue fabric. Framed in a 5" bamboo wood hoop, backed with card and beautifully gift wrapped.


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About #bookstitch2018:

Toward the end of 2017, I realised that my bookcase was filled almost entirely with books by men, particularly white European and American men. It occurred to me that I ought to strive for a more diverse representation of authors in the books that I read, and to start with I decided to focus on women. From this decision a project was born, as I felt inspired to use hand embroidery to produce hoop art inspired by each book that I read. I posted about the idea on my Instagram account (@littlesasquatchembroideries) and other users expressed an interest in joining in on the endeavour. Across the year I read 25 books by women, creating hand embroidered art for each title or author.

Numerous other embroidery artists joined in, either reading books by women or creating book inspired embroideries, or both. To see all the embroidery art created as part of #bookstitch2018, search the hashtag on Instagram.

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Looking for something a little different? Contact me about customised hand embroidery designs - I love to make custom pieces, and I'm happy to recreate existing embroidery designs with different fabrics, thread colours or wording.

All Little Sasquatch embroideries are handmade by me, Joanna, mostly in my tiny flat in London, England. I've been embroidering for around 10 years now and creating hoop art is my passion. I take inspiration from both popular culture and subculture, with influences from TV, movies, music, books and more.

A lot of my embroideries are made using vintage fabric donated by my mum from her old quilting stash; these are limited in quantity so catch them while you can. Since all my items are hand embroidered, none of them are 'perfect', and that's what makes them so charming and unique - no two embroideries are the order same.

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