Paraffle's 2025 Scottish Independent Gift Guide
Tired of the same old sponsored gift guides? Check out our Scottish Independent Gift Guide - small, sustainable businesses making presents you'll love.
6 Tips for Using Metallic Hand Embroidery Thread
Gold embroidery thread tangling? Silver strands fraying? Here are our top tips to help you master those metallics
How to Customise Clothes with Hand Embroidery
I'll talk you through how to use hand embroidery to customise and upcycle your clothes. You can create a totally unique item of clothing to show off - and it's really easy to do, once you know how. Plus, it's a great way to break the cycle of fast fashion!
Sustainability and Carbon Offsetting
You might know that I'm always looking for ways to make Paraffle a more sustainable and environmentally friendly embroidery business...and I'm super happy to say that Paraffle is now offsetting carbon emissions from all of your orders!
How to Make an Embroidered Patch
Learn how to make a hand embroidered patch with our full guide for beginners. Patches are a useful way to customise your shirts, jackets and accessories. They're perfect for upcycling old clothes!
The Red Dress Project
Sometimes you see an embroidery project that blows you away. The Red Dress project - conceived and developed by British artist Kirstie MacLeod - is one of those. Take a look!