Tutor: Anne Griffiths
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for beginners with experience of their machine and those wishing to expand on their knowledge.
Workshop Details
Enjoy an accessible and inspiring introduction to free machine embroidery. We will look at the use of basic stitches to create line and pattern. Whether you are just discovering the world of textiles, consider yourself an embroiderer or focus on patchwork and quilting, there will be ideas to enhance all your textile projects.
Learn how to use your machine for free machine embroidery from the basic principles of setting up the machine and adjusting tension through to working with heavy threads, alternative stitches and using the wing needle to create texture. We will also use multiple threads at the same time to create colour.
You will leave the class with a set of stitched reference samples showing these different techniques together with a wealth of ideas on how to take these techniques forward in your own work.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in your booking fee.
Please Bring With You
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for beginners with experience of their machine and those wishing to expand on their knowledge.
Workshop Details
Enjoy an accessible and inspiring introduction to free machine embroidery. We will look at the use of basic stitches to create line and pattern. Whether you are just discovering the world of textiles, consider yourself an embroiderer or focus on patchwork and quilting, there will be ideas to enhance all your textile projects.
Learn how to use your machine for free machine embroidery from the basic principles of setting up the machine and adjusting tension through to working with heavy threads, alternative stitches and using the wing needle to create texture. We will also use multiple threads at the same time to create colour.
You will leave the class with a set of stitched reference samples showing these different techniques together with a wealth of ideas on how to take these techniques forward in your own work.
Skills/Techniques Covered
- free machine embroidery
- image transfer from paper to fabric
Materials
Materials are not included in your booking fee.
Please Bring With You
- Sewing machine in good working order and manual; please check how to lower the feed dogs or bring the appropriate plate to cover the dogs
- Darning foot
- Small 7” embroidery hoop or similar
- Spare needles
- Machine threads in various colours and white
- ½ metre calico if you have other similar weight fabrics do bring them, however the calico will be sufficient
- Line drawings for copying and inspiration (perhaps a few pages from a colouring book)
- Pencil and scrap paper
- White baking parchment
- About 20 sheets photocopy paper
- Small pieces of coloured cotton
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.