Description
Everyone loves a bunch of flowers!
A day to improve your free machine embroidery skills and give you the opportunity to explore how cut flowers can be represented in stitched art.
You will choose from a selection of composition sketches and an array of types of decorative papers. Â Coloured inks are used first to create the background. The papers can be torn or cut and then some will be arranged and slightly embedded into calico with gesso others will be PVA’d in place. Free machine embroidery is used to create detail and definition. Hand embroidery could then be added later.
Requirements
£5 on the day for materials.
Sewing machine, flat bed tray and free motion foot
Free machine embroidery threads
Thread and paper cutting scissors
Glue brush
Paint brush for gesso
Spare machine needles
Ruler and pencil
* If you have a specific patterned decoupage paper you would like to use for the vase image feel free to bring this along or just choose from the selection provided on the day.
Sheila Brighten (verified owner) –
Dot is such an excellent teacher. Lots of ideas and very good advice meant that at the end of the day we had all achieved a lovely piece of work to be finished at home. Thanks for a superb day. Roll on the next one.
Alex –
thank you Sheila xx