School of Stitched Textiles

School of Stitched Textiles The School of Stitched Textiles delivers City & Guilds accredited programmes via distance learning in textile related subjects.

We nurture textile artists, makers & creators. 🎨

✨The UK’s ONLY provider of City & Guilds accredited textile art courses.

🧵📚Join 1000s of students studying with us online across 8 accredited subjects - from beginner to Advanced Master Practitioner. We have beginners and masters courses as well as 8 different craft areas in 3 skill stages to choose from. We have been operating for 23 years and have many hundreds of graduates from our courses.

Not every project fits neatly inside a hoop. 🪡Luciana Duta .tales took dimensional embroidery somewhere we genuinely did...
03/09/2026

Not every project fits neatly inside a hoop. 🪡

Luciana Duta .tales took dimensional embroidery somewhere we genuinely didn't expect: a lampshade, turned into something you'd find in a gallery. The raised design, the way the threads play off the deep base of the shade. Every detail is deliberate. Every decision earned.

Coursework like this doesn't happen in a straight line. It happens through experiments, moments of doubt, and the decision to keep going anyway. Right to the final stitch.

We are so proud to see work like this come out of the SST community. 💜

What's the most ambitious project you've ever taken on? Tell us in the comments.

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Ten textile artists. Ten extraordinary relationships with landscape. One blog you need to save right now. 🌿 We've been q...
02/09/2026

Ten textile artists. Ten extraordinary relationships with landscape. One blog you need to save right now. 🌿

We've been quietly working on the latest addition to our Artists You HAVE to Follow series, and this one might be our most ambitious yet.

From stitched maps of real geographical locations to thread-painted cliffsides, from aerial embroideries of the English countryside to layered fabric collages bursting with colour - the range here is breathtaking.

These are artists who have found in stitch something that paint and photography simply cannot do.

Read the full blog https://www.sofst.org/10-textile-artists-inspired-by-landscape-you-have-to-follow/

Then tell us: which artist stops you mid-scroll?
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"The course exceeded every expectation. It challenged me to explore techniques, materials, and ideas I may never have co...
01/09/2026

"The course exceeded every expectation. It challenged me to explore techniques, materials, and ideas I may never have considered otherwise." ✨

Kerry arrived at SST as an experienced textiles teacher with a passion for machine embroidery. She left with a City & Guilds qualification, a clear creative identity, and a business ready to launch.

Her story is on the blog. 👇

Link in bio (Graduate Stories)

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Do you knit, crochet or stitch to switch your brain off? 🙋You're not imagining it. On the latest Textile Talk, yoga teac...
31/08/2026

Do you knit, crochet or stitch to switch your brain off? 🙋

You're not imagining it. On the latest Textile Talk, yoga teacher and mindfulness practitioner Mary Ann Gebhardt explains exactly what's happening in your body and mind when you're deep in a project, and why it matters more than ever.

Drop a 🧵 below if handwork is your happy place, then go and give the episode a listen.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts
📖 read the full story on the blog https://www.sofst.org/mary-ann-gebhardt-finding.../
🎬 watch with subtitles on YouTube
👉 Follow

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Who's going to Knit + Stitch 🙋‍♀️If you’re looking for the best craft fairs in London, check out the Knit + Stitch at Al...
30/08/2026

Who's going to Knit + Stitch 🙋‍♀️

If you’re looking for the best craft fairs in London, check out the Knit + Stitch at Alexandra Palace, London this October and experience one of the UK’s most loved craft events. Where creativity, community, and crafting come together.

Secure your place with the code SST26 for £2s off tickets. 👍

Check out or head over to their website.

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Shelves of vintage blankets, jars of colourful thread ends, beads, hand-dyed velvets, crocheted pods and soft sculptural...
29/08/2026

Shelves of vintage blankets, jars of colourful thread ends, beads, hand-dyed velvets, crocheted pods and soft sculptural shapes…

For Fleur Woods, materials aren’t just supplies.... They’re the heartbeat of her work. Each piece carries stories, histories, and the comforting tactility of something once loved.

In this episode of Textile Talk, Fleur shares:
✨ Her journey from corporate world to full-time artist.
🌿 How New Zealand’s landscapes shape her nature-inspired pieces.
🧵 Why she saves everything (yes, even the tiniest thread ends) to transform into lush, textural worlds.

🎧 Listen now on your favourite podcast platform.
👀 View work and listen https://www.sofst.org/textile-talk-with-fleur-woods/
👉 Link in bio (Podcast)


Meet Claire Frampton, one of our incredible graduates, spotted wearing her own work at the Festival of Quilts.Claire cre...
27/08/2026

Meet Claire Frampton, one of our incredible graduates, spotted wearing her own work at the Festival of Quilts.

Claire created this extraordinary wearable textile piece as part of her City & Guilds course with SST, and honestly? We can't stop looking at it. Seven embroidered hoops, each stitched with intricate geometric designs in a different colourway, linked together into a statement necklace that turns heads and starts conversations.

This is what happens when skill, creativity and structured learning come together. Claire didn't just complete a course. She made something genuinely remarkable, and then she wore it to one of the UK's biggest textile events.

We are so proud of you, Claire. This is everything.

If you have been thinking about taking your embroidery to the next level, our City & Guilds accredited Skill Stages are where it begins.

https://www.sofst.org/courses/
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There's a moment in our latest Textile Talk episode that's stayed with us all week.Mary Ann Gebhardt describes a retreat...
26/08/2026

There's a moment in our latest Textile Talk episode that's stayed with us all week.

Mary Ann Gebhardt describes a retreat she runs called Stitch and Stillness: four days in the Colorado mountains, a hand spun, hand dyed meditation shawl on the needles, and a group of makers slowly, stitch by stitch, learning to be still.

One participant, an athlete who swore she'd never manage the meditation part, ended up so deep in flow during a guided session that she put her knitting down without realising, closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair. She didn't notice what had happened until days later.

It's a beautiful reminder that the making itself, the rhythm of the hands, the repetition, the focus, can be its own form of mindfulness. No mat or cushion required.

Whether you knit, crochet, embroider or quilt, we think you'll find something in this conversation worth carrying into your own practice.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts
📖 read the full story on the blog https://www.sofst.org/mary-ann-gebhardt-finding.../
🎬 watch with subtitles on YouTube
👉 Follow

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You can now register for our next Meet The Tutor Session! Taking place 6th October at 7PM.This is an informal and friend...
25/08/2026

You can now register for our next Meet The Tutor Session! Taking place 6th October at 7PM.

This is an informal and friendly online Zoom session with two of our expert tutors: Our Head of Centre, Dr Gail Cowley and Patchwork tutor, Debbie Jarvis.

They'll be online to answer all of your questions around studying our prestigious City & Guilds accredited textile art courses.

Register today to secure your place.

👉 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/73feT-q6QMGyhtPWV18zuw

We'll see you there.

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