As the famous song says, “when the clock strikes four, everything stops for tea!”, and Susan’s delectable design celebrates this very English tradition. It features a cake stand piled high with tasty treats including cupcakes, battenberg cake and macarons, all framed with a border of pretty cups, mugs, teapots and spoons – everything you need, in fact, for the perfect indulgent afternoon tea.
Using a pretty pastel palette of threads, this sweet (in all senses of the word!) sampler design is a joy to bring to life. Stitching it will stretch your skills, too, as it uses quite a lot of fractional stitches to achieve the curves on the motifs, plus some French knots for the tiny strawberry that’s topping the sponge cake.
Why not get together with your stitchy…
