Kseniia Guseva

She is creating city architectural embroideries, florals, interiors, and anything else that comes to mind and shares what I know about embroidery through patterns, online courses, tutorial videos, and Patreon community where she teaches new techniques every month

Kseniia Guseva is a self-taught embroidery artist based in Berlin, Germany. She was born in Saint-Petersburg. It's a beautiful city with amazing architecture, and being surrounded by it made her fall in love with and research it. At the age of 6, she learned how to crochet, knit, draw, and cross-stitch. All are using the books and trial and error. She learned more embroidery basics at school with a teacher and forgot about all of this for almost 17 years. In 2015, she left her full-time job due to the stress level and anxiety it gave her. That's when she went back to cross-stitching, and it helped her to slow down. She created easy, cute designs just as she did when she was little. And eventually started to share the designs she makes on Instagram and found out that she is not the only one who likes them. Then, step-by-step cross-stitch developed into hand embroidery. She started with simple embroideries: small birds, and mandalas, and was thinking about the bigger projects. After a short journey to Sweden and Finland, she realized that she had to embroider the architecture she saw to remember that trip. So, her love for architecture, travel, and drawing finally met when she started embroidery. And that was her first bigger project. 10 years later: she lives in Berlin and loves architecture, embroidery, and drawing even more. She created over 150 city patterns, floral embroideries, interiors, some animals, samplers, and a lot of tutorials over the years. She is creating online embroidery courses and tutorials because she loves the idea that she can create something from scratch and teach how to make it. No matter where she lives, she can communicate and share her passion with people all over the world. And people can learn how to commemorate their trips or places where they lived with a thread. The last two years she dedicated to learning new embroidery techniques, history, and shares all of it on her Patreon. Stumpwork, punch needle, tambour hook, thread-painting - more than 12 techniques, samplers, and patterns. Her main source of inspiration is architecture, nature, and how people interact with it. In her practice, she’s striving for zero waste and the reuse of leftovers and vintage materials. The whole process is made by hand. Her work can be found in private collections all over the world.

Contact her through email: faimyxstitch@gmail.com or through socials:

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“Upcycling with embroidery” course on Domestika The book “Embroidery: The Art of Stitches” by Sandu Publishing Oia village pattern for Anchor Crafts “Stitch Life” magazine Christmas stitch-along pattern for Love Embroidery magazine Issues 44-46 10 architectural patterns for DMC kits She also works with people from all over the world, creating custom patterns and embroideries for them.

Kseniia’s works are featured in online and print magazines: Be Creative with Workbox magazine (issue September 2019) Ampersand Literary Koel-stories.com brwnpaperbag.com beautifulbizarre.net - Top 100 Embroidery artists U magazine Hong Kong (travel issue 753) Love Embroidery magazine (Issue 33)