Sophie Timms is a hand embroidery artist and educator based in the UK, and the founder of Mindful Mantra Embroidery and Bloom Embroidery Academy. She designs original embroidery patterns and kits, and teaches modern hand embroidery to a global community of stitchers — from complete beginners picking up a needle for the first time to intermediate makers wanting to deepen their skills.

Through her membership Bloom Embroidery Academy, her standalone courses (including the Introduction to Embroidery Course and the Pattern Design Course), and her weekly newsletter The Thread, Sophie helps thousands of people fall in love with hand stitching. Her approach is warm, slow, and encouraging — she believes embroidery should feel like a quiet, joyful pause in a busy life, not another thing to get "right."

Sophie is known for breaking complex techniques into clear, doable steps and for the calm, friendly tone that runs through everything she makes.