Kit contents: ticking fabric (approx A4 size), a starter selection of embroidery threads, embroidery needle.

“This is the way Blanche, Lady Shuttleworth taught her daughters to do Embroidery Stitches. Brownies can practice simple stitches on mattress ticking. It trains their eyes to keep straight. This could be used to cover a needlebook etc.”

Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth c.1930

If you would like some ideas of how to use your finished piece of ticking why not frame it, use it to cover a spectacles case, to back a note book, add it to a home made greetings card or turn it into a pretty needle case - whatever you wish!