Stitch Circle Community
Creative community is vital for our well-being, our personal making & learning. Come & join our generous group of sharing, inspiring stitchers, creatives & makers, where we gather (online) & connect in a way we’re all yearning for.
In this ever-changing & overwhelming world, our emotions are fragile, our regular creative groups often can’t come together & many of us are feeling a little lost in our creativity
slow mindful stitching will surely ground us
This is where Stitch Circle Community comes in!
A space to connect with like-minded makers across the globe. A place to learn something new, or delve deeper into a craft we already know & love.
Stitch Circle Community is an online sewing circle with friends, like-minded creatives & makers from all over the world. We create, connect, share & meet in a private online space (that is not social media).
With regular zoom conversations we get to chat, inspire, show off our work & laugh along with other makers.
Lovely words
In her courses, Ellie provides a warm and relaxing atmosphere where she emphasises the importance of process over product; thereby showing students that their work does not need to be perfect. It is all about the process and enjoying that process while expressing your own artistic voice with the products you have at hand.
By providing clear step-by-step videos in which she cuts down a project into manageable pieces, students will feel confident that they can complete a project. During the Stitch Projects for Community course, she showed some alternative ways in which to complete a project. This helped students to think about what they would like to make with the stitched cloth instead of merely following along with Ellie's project; thereby helping students to use what they had learned in Ellie's videos in projects that would suit them.
~ Sandra
Ready to join us?
add some mindful making to your life
join our community
$10us/month
$100us/year
a connective creative community forum, not on social media
monthly zoom calls for you to meet, stitch and chat
new tutorials and projects each month - think slow stitching, natural dyeing, hand sewing, fabric printing and more
continually updated stitch library
20% off my online courses
cancel anytime you want
When this crazy time of the world first plunged us into an unknown, many of us found ourselves lost from our community connections and regular creative groups. My health keeps me home a lot! (I’m not allowed to drive). The quiet felt sad and too deep to ponder on my own. And so I created Stitch Circle Community as a way for us to all connect. I was so excited when others were excited and ready to join.
Want to know a funny story about two of our Stitch Circle Community members? Of course you do! Two women, who currently live in very different parts of the globe, started chatting (via our online community space), and realised that they knew each other through previous neighbours and family in a local town they both lived in. The textile stitching community is indeed so wonderfully small and connected. What an honour to see this happening inside our community.
The other wonderful thing - people who never knew each other before are now connecting, sharing, inspiring and becoming friends. Names are familiar, pieces of creativity are being shared in progress, mistakes are being troubleshooted or commiserated over.
I know you’re ready to meet a new textile friend, to be in a safe space to talk about your gentle makings, your journey of exploration and learning.
Let’s create together
Here’s what you’ll find inside the community:
An every-growing library of courses & tutorials
Each month I add a new video lesson. This could be a full how-to tutorial or perhaps a technique. You can access to all previous content when you join.
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Perfect for carrying library books, your computer or taking a drawing book on your next picnic. Fully hand sewn with external pockets.
Include video tutorial and written pattern.
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Make the inside of your projects fancy with this lovely method. French seams aren’t hard to do, but a little tricky if you don’t know the process. In this video course I break it down, even if you’re a complete beginner.
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New stitches added monthly. Let me know what you want to learn!
Currently includes:
running stitch
French knots
how to keep Sashiko thread tidy
weaving in your thread ends
couching -
make a book cover
super special bag with a fancy handle
cushion cover with zipper
natural dye project
fabric printing -
Our community forum is the perfect space to share our makings. Each month we’ll create the current project together, offering advice, trouble-shooting and encouragement.
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I’ll be there to welcome you in, answer questions, cheer you on. My friend Pen is going to be helping me in the community forum too, so you’ll have access to help with your projects if you ever need.
Lovely words
Hi, I’m Ellie
I’m a textile artist & maker, a creativity coach, web-designer & mentor, a writer, photographer & soul-sharer.
I have online courses, in-person workshops and 1-to-1 sessions
Are you ready to delve into the gentle, good, slow work of making, creating and sharing?
Let’s make a pot of tea and share our stories together.
Perhaps you’d like to join my newsletter, where I share fortnightly (ish) love notes for creatives. Many of my readers save my words to enjoy over a cup of tea and their stitching. I write from the heart, and share many words that I don’t put anywhere else online.
Ellie Beck Creative coaching, textile artist & writer. Photo by Justin Ealand
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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This is an online community and course space. The community is hosted on a social media-free platform called Circle. You can access the community via your desktop or their app (both Apple and Android).
The online tutorials are on my teaching platform, Teachable. They have a web based site as well as an Apple app (unfortunately no Android at this stage).
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As long as you’re a paying member you’ll have continual access to the courses and tutorials, this includes previous content as well as current.
You can’t download the videos, so you lose access when you cancel your membership.
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As soon as you join up to the membership you gain immediate access and have continual access until you cancel your membership.
You’ll receive information on how to access the courses and tutorial. Current and previous content is available immediately, with new content available the first week of each month.
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This is an online forum and EVERYONE is welcome and encouraged to join in. You can be very new to sewing (I have tutorials for stitches and threading needles), or experienced sewers are in our community too.
This is about connecting together and I love that we hve a diverse group of people.
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I don’t offer a refund for the current month, but you can cancel your membership anytime you like.
Remember that once you cancel you’ll lose access to the courses and tutorials.
If you join up for a yearly subscription and would like to cancel within a month of joining, please let me know.
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Oh, yes, send me an email and I’ll help you out. ellie@petalplum.com.au
I’d love you to join me and our community!
Come say hello and connect with us, look around at the courses, stay a while. If the community isn’t for you, no worries, you can cancel anytime and you won’t be charged again.
Stitch Circle Community
is a space to connect with like-minded creatives, chat, share, encourage, learn. Many friendships have been made in our community forum, and flourished in our monthly zoom calls. I love love love connecting with everyone and hosting these calls - they really are the best part of the community!
is somewhere for you to learn new skills - hand sewing, slow stitching, creative making, courageous ways of trusting your intuition in your projects.
is a forum space, with a monthly payment that you can cancel anytime you want.
cancel your membership when you want