Exquisite Embroideries on Transparent Fabric Will Transport You to the Forest Floor

Organza Landscape Embroidery

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Embroidery artist Sew Beautiful shows the beauty of forests through their trees. Using colorful thread and a lot of the French knot stitch, the UK-based creative depicts nature scenes featuring tall timber full of leaves as well as bountiful fields of blooms. Contained in circular hoops, each frame offers a picture-window view into a lovely landscape; if you long for getting outside and enjoying nature, Sew Beautiful’s pieces are a welcome visual escape.

Some of Sew Beautiful’s most striking pieces feature the use of organza, a transparent fabric that can make stitches look as though they’re floating. This is exemplified through pieces in which we're looking up at the treetops from a grounded point of view.

The inspiration for these types of works came from being outdoors. “I love to embroider nature, trees, flowers, and animals, especially capturing breathtaking scenery,” Sew Beautiful tells My Modern Met. “Living in the English countryside, I am surrounded by nature. During one of my nature walks, I found myself looking up at the trees and how the sun shone through. I knew I needed to capture this on an organza hoop to mirror my vision.”

Sew Beautiful sells her work on Etsy.

Using organza fabric and a whole lot of French knots, embroidery artist Sew Beautiful creates stunning landscape hoop art.

Landscape Embroidery of the Forest

Landscape Embroidery of the Forest

“During one of my nature walks,” she tells My Modern Met, “I found myself looking up at the trees and how the Sun shone through. I knew I needed to capture this on an organza hoop to mirror my vision.”

Landscape Embroidery of the Forest

Landscape Embroidery of the Forest

Each frame offers a picture-window view into a lovely landscape.

Organza Landscape Embroidery

Landscape Embroidery of the Forest

If you long for getting outside and enjoying nature, Sew Beautiful’s pieces are a welcome visual escape.

Organza Landscape Embroidery

Sew Beautiful: Etsy | Instagram

My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Sew Beautiful.

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice. Sara is also an embroidery illustrator and writer living in Seattle, Washington. She runs Bear&Bean, a studio where she stitches pet portraits and other beloved creatures. She chronicles the creativity of others through her website Brown Paper Bag and newsletter, Orts. Her latest book is Threads of Treasure: How to Make, Mend, and Find Meaning Through Thread, published in 2014. Sara’s work has been recognized in Be Creative With Workbox, Embroidery Magazine, American Illustration, on Iron and Wine’s album Beast Epic, among others. When she’s not stitching or writing, Sara enjoys planning things that bring together the craft community. She is the co-founder of Camp Craftaway, a day camp for crafty adults with hands-on workshops in the Seattle area.
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