The first personalised napkin for my husband who loves cycling!
The first ‘Eat Your Greens’ collection in progress.
The first cotton t-shirt I embroidered - a bumble bee for my husband, Dan.
An initial works just as well as a name if you have napkins that already have a design on them.
About Lottie Mayland
How Lottie Mayland Embroidery began…
This is a business that started during the early lockdown days of 2020 when, like many others, I found myself furloughed and retreating back to my childhood home in the countryside to live a much quieter life. My busy life in London was put on hold over night and I suddenly found myself with the time to embrace everything I’d always wanted to have a go at but never got round to trying. I started by buying a sewing machine and made a couple of cushions and some bunting using scraps of vintage linens and following YouTube tutorials.
We have always used proper cloth napkins for lunch and supper, however, as the lockdown days passed we quickly realised that the napkins we were using were all the same and we had no way to distinguish whose was whose. I decided to embroider our names and a little image onto 4 of them so we could identify our own. I created a bike, a fishing rod, a butterfly, and a pansy and therein my love for embroidery began. I ordered books, threads, watched countless YouTube videos, and ransacked my mum’s collection of vintage linen for fabrics to practice on. The more napkins, t-shirts, and fabrics I embroidered the more I loved it. I was inspired by my parent’s kitchen garden (hence the vegetable-themed napkins) and also by losing myself down countless Instagram rabbit holes looking at gorgeous vintage and modern embroidery styles.
Where we are now
Lockdown now seems a long time ago and having moved back to London after lockdown we quite swiftly moved back to Dorset again! Now with two small children in tow I host workshops and create bespoke embroidered pieces for clients from my home studio.
If you would like to discuss a commission please get in touch using the form on my SHOP pag
The first piece of vintage linen I embroidered which was then turned into a purse.
Early on in lockdown doing a Sashiko Embroidery online class with my mum.
A typical evening’s haul from the kitchen garden that inspired the first “Eat Your Greens’ napkin collection.
At my first pop-up shop at the Deans Court Home Store
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