Available for Pre-order – Due for publication 12th November 2026
Playful Stitch is a sumptuous, vividly colourful journey through
Deena Beverley’s imaginative take on textile art, in which she shares
her passion for playfulness in all things stitched and mixed media.
Deena shares the key ingredient in her creative practice: play –
making this book a practical route map to reconnect readers with the
simple, childlike pleasure of joyful experimentation and unpressured
making. With chapters including ‘The Nature Table’, ‘The Toybox’, ‘The
Dressing-Up Box’, ‘The Stationary Cupboard’, ‘Story Time’ and ‘Messy
Play’, Deena shares how she makes creative play a part of her daily life,
turning it into beautiful, award-winning hand- and machine-embroidered,
painted, quilted and appliqued work.
Packed with simple techniques which not only inject a shot of new
energy into familiar materials, but which are, crucially, fun to do, Deena
describes this book as ‘messy play for grownups’ with detours to the
dressing-up box, a rummage through the toy box and a deep delve into
the stationery cupboard, via story time.
