Make your own Stitch Journal
A free class you can start today, with whatever materials you've got available at home.
Over 4,000 creatives worldwide have already taken the class in the past 6 months
A Stitch Journal, the book that lives with you
Unlike many arts and crafts projects, a Stitch Journal breathes and grows along with your life. It's not a project with a set finish line, and there are no mistakes.
It's a book you return to, on a Tuesday evening, on a train, at the kitchen table while the pasta water heats up. An "in-between-projects" project of sorts, one that can travel with you through time and space.
Mine has travelled with me for years now. It holds places I've been, colours and shapes I couldn't stop thinking about, words I needed to read that week, and a lot of experimental, random stitches that felt good in the moment.
Much like a regular paper journal, the point is the experience: getting your thoughts and feelings out of your system and onto something concrete. I try to start my mornings with five minutes of stitchery alongside my morning coffee, and it always grounds me into the day.
Some days I stitch for hours, others not at all, and it's all okay. That's part of the creative life.
What you'll learn
The class is structured as a stitch-along to put your first journal together.
- How I attach the pages
- The basic stitches you'll need
- How I make the cover
There are no rules as to what you put into those pages. That space is for your creative freedom.
Complete beginners and seasoned stitchers who got hooked on the idea: all are welcome and will find great value. We start from the very first stitch.
No special materials to order in. A drawer of odds and ends is ideal: leftover linen, an old cotton shirt or curtain, the thread from a project you never quite finished, and a hard-cover book you've thrifted or already read, so you can take out the paper pages in peace.
From people who've made one
These are the messages that make my week 💜
Elin Petronella
Swedish artist, writer and mother of two who now lives in Belgium with her family. Since 2016 she has been sharing her art with the world, and has built an audience of half a million across Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Substack. Through the years she has worked with luxury brands, taught thousands of students the art of modern hand embroidery, written two books (Mindful Embroidery and Embroidery Wanderlust), and taken part in multiple exhibitions.
Her greatest passion is to inspire you to pick up materials and get creative, which is at the centre of her Petronella Art Studio practice.
Take the Class in the Petronella Art Studio today
Put in your name and email and you'll be taken to the Petronella Art Studio sign-in page. Once there, request a login code, which is sent to that same email, and you're in!
No password to remember, and it works across multiple devices.
Can't wait to meet you inside the Studio!
Love, Elin