Garden Threads: Slow Stitching as a Contemplative Practice

A New Course Coming in Summer 2025

Are you looking for more stillness in your days—moments when your hands are busy and your soul can breathe? Garden Threads: Slow Stitching as a Contemplative Practice offers you just that.

Through slow stitching, Garden Threads helps you align with the natural world and the Divine—one thread, one moment at a time. This three-lesson journey is designed for those who seek a deeper relationship with God/Holy Mystery through creativity and nature’s wisdom.

If you are a gardener or nature lover, you already know that time in the garden feeds your soul. You’ve felt the calm it brings, the way it slows your thoughts and stirs your sense of wonder. Garden Threads brings that same feeling into your creative life.

This course blends slow stitching with thoughtful reflection, encouraging you to notice, respond, and create from a place of grounded presence.

You’ll learn to:

  • Use slow stitching as a spiritual and creative practice

  • Reflect on what the garden is offering you in each season

  • Listen for Divine wisdom in the rhythm of your hands and the wonder of the natural world

In Garden Threads, you'll receive:

  • Three lessons to guide your stitching as a soulful practice

  • Creative prompts inspired by the seasons and natural cycles

  • Simple stitching techniques—no prior experience required

  • Contemplative practices that open space for prayer, meditation, or quiet joy

  • Ideas for using your stitched pieces as prayer flags, finished art, or in a visual journal

- and these Extras:

  •  Live Zoom Gathering - Share your work, ask questions, and connect at the end of the course

  •  BONUS LESSON - Learn how to stitch on paper and create a mini concertina book
    (a $20 value, included free)

  •  Garden Reflection Journal, a beautiful downloadable companion to prepare your heart and spirit for our creative journey.

Whether you're a lifelong gardener, a creative spirit, or someone simply longing for a slower rhythm, Garden Threads offers a fresh way to connect with what you love.

A Practice Rooted in Generosity

This course grew out of my year-long journey of making monthly prayer flags—a practice that deepened my creative life and invited me to listen closely to the seasons of the earth and the seasons of my soul.

Garden Threads continues the practice: gathering beauty, offering presence, and creating small, meaningful works with your hands.

To learn about my Prayer Flag Project, download my free e-book here:
Stitching Prayers: A Creative Guide to Contemplative Prayer Flag

Imagine this: a quiet corner, soft light, the slow rhythm of your hands stitching meaning into fabric. Outside, the garden whispers its wisdom. Inside, your spirit listens.

"Young Woman Sewing in the Garden" by Marry Cassatt, 1900 (public domain)

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