Workshop: Stitching with Nature Embroidery

Join textile artist Katerina Knight for a one-of-a-kind embroidery experience: Stitching with Nature.

What to expect

In this workshop, Katerina will teach participants a series of hand embroidery techniques for how dried plant materials can be used as alternative textile embellishments.

What you will learn

Learning how to incorporate unusual materials such as lavender seeds, cornflowers, marigold, and statice together with traditional hand stitching techniques. Katerina will guide you through a series of traditional hand stitch techniques incorporating these plants as alternative embellishments. Covering stitches such as double darning, couching with a single thread, herringbone, and interlacing you will create intricate surface patterns on cloth with nature and thread.

Whether you are interested in textiles, gardening, meditation, or would just like to learn something new, this workshop promises to be soothing and sensorial.

What's included

All materials will be provided by Katerina, including a varied selection of dried plant materials, homegrown or sustainably foraged in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Who can take part

• No embroidery experience is necessary, you are encouraged to take each stitch slowly and learn at a pace that is comfortable for you
• This event is suitable for adults and young people aged 16 and over
  

About the Host:

Katerina Knight is an English textile artist, writer, and educator. Katerina specialises in one-of-a-kind handmade textile artworks that explore narratives of personal and planetary healing represented through horticulture and slow textile making. Having left the luxury fashion industry behind, Katerina now has a slow artistic practice. She specialises in one-of-a-kind handmade textile artworks that explore narratives of personal and planetary healing represented through horticulture and slow textile making. Her works have been exhibited across Europe, such as at Collect Art Fair in London, XTANT in Mallorca, and Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. In 2025 she was runner up for the Heritage Crafts Emerging Embroiderer of the Year.

She trained at The Glasgow School of Art in printed textile design and then completed her Masters in Textiles at the Royal College of Art London as a Burberry Design Scholar.

Katerina now lives in the heart of the English countryside in Malvern, Worcestershire, immersed in a natural landscape where she cultivates her own flora. Katerina travels internationally delivering her artisan workshop series Stitching With Nature, with the endeavor to share how working akin with nature and craft can strengthen well-being. Most recently at the Garden Museum in London and the Indigo Art Museum in Ahmedabad.

Katerina is the features editor at Selvedge magazine - an international publication about the culture of cloth. Further, she writes editorial journalism for other publications such as Resurgence and Ecologist and Surface Design Journal.

On 1 October 2026 Katerina’s first book Stitching With Nature will be published by Batsford.

katerinaknight.co.uk @_katerinaknight

About OmVed Gardens: 

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.

As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.

We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.

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Subsidised Tickets: We have a few reserved tickets at a subsidised rate. If this workshop is not monetarily accessible, please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com to avail yourself of a subsidised ticket rate. Subject to availability.

A note on accessibility: The gardens are set on a hill, featuring steep paths and may not be suitable for those with limited mobility. Wheelchair access across the site is currently limited while landscape works are underway. For events, there is drop-off access by car to the Barn main building. If you require wheelchair drop-off, please get in touch with us ahead of time. There is an accessible toilet located inside the Barn.

Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable. In cases where an event is sold out and a waiting list exists for the session, a credit voucher may be issued. Please write to us for any cancellation inquiries at least 24 hours before the event starts. In case of extreme weather, and the event goes ahead, we will offer a credit note for future events. If we have to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances, we will refund your ticket.