Description
SUPPLIES:
Required:
5 0r 6 inch embroidery hoop
12 – 10 inch squares of neutral fabric (like Kona) for practice
1 – fat quarter of solid colour fabric of your choice to create your sampler (Kona or Essex Linen)
1 package of assorted sized embroidery needles
10 skeins DMC embroidery floss. Your choice of colours but should include colours suitable for leaves and flowers.
Small thread snips; water or air erasable marking pen
Pattern for a sampler will be supplied.
Recommended:
Book of embroidery stitches such as “Embroidery Stitching Handy Pocket Guide” or any other book that contains well illustrated examples of stitches. (“Stitched Butterflies;)
Pigma marker; fusible fleece; different weights of thread such as Perle cotton, or Sue Spargo
Session 1: Supplies, technique and basic running stitch, (1 ½ hours)
How to use an embroidery hoop; the option of fusible fleece; cutting and pulling thread; 1,2,or more threads. Pattern tracing and marking; starting and stopping; running stitch.
Session 2: Back stitch; Stem stitch, split stitch (1 ½ hours)
Making lines; straight and curved
Session 3: Lazy daisy stitch, chain stitch, variations on Lazy daisy (circles, scattered) (1 ½ hours)
Session 4: Blanket stitch, working with heavier thread. (1 ½ hours)
Session 5. Fern stitch (1 ½ hours)
Session 6: Feather stitch (1 ½ hours)
Session 7: Fly stitch. (1 ½ hours)
Session 8: French knots, Bullion stitch. (1 ½ hours)
Session 9: Satin stitch, Long and short, (1 ½ hours)
Session 10: Fishbone; stitching on wool felt(1 ½ hours)
Session 11: Woven or over stitched: Threaded, whipped stitches, couching. ( 1 ½ hours)
Session 12: Blocking, washing and using your finished projects.
