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Goldwork Letter 3 is Out Now!

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Goldwork Letters Style 3: Cutwork with padding and Pearle Purl edging is here. The final step in our goldwork for lettering series aimed at those who have done some goldwork before and are ready to apply those skills more specifically. Taught by breaking the letters down into their characteristics, we discuss the intricacies of the elements you will face and how to deal with each of them as well as showing how to bring all those elements together into one considered, cohesive outcome.

There are no kits for this class as we encourage you to make your own creative material choices for a truly personalised outcome. Do check out the materials listed on the class for our guide to what you’ll need. Head over to the London Embroidery school website for all the details and access to our most technically advanced goldwork class to date.

Fancy Trying your Hand at Goldwork?

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We hope you are ready for this, we have been working away in the background to bring a longer class series out for our more established stitchers, so today we have the Goldwork Pear Class Series to bring before you. In this 4 part series we will be teaching you a range of traditional goldwork techniques, focusing on the process and getting into the fruity details of the wide variety of materials goldwork has to offer .

This class is aimed at stitchers with some embroidery experience, but who may or may not have necessarily done goldwork specifically before. If you have already taken our Introduction to Goldwork Cherry design then you are pretty much in a perfect position, as we will be taking a few of those materials and techniques, building on them and pressing forwards with your skills and finesse. We will discuss working on a multifaceted design starting by building good foundations with padding and raisings, adding smooth surfaces with applique, creating texture with chipping, couching and cutwork, before we work on finishings like plunging and pearle purl edging. 

As always we have prepared kits for you so you can jump right into the fun bit and get stitching. There will be Deluxe and Mini level kits depending on the equipment you may already have at home as someone who has already done a bit of embroidery. We will also be offering bundle packages which brings your choice of kit and all the classes into one transaction with a discount. Or you can buy each class as they are released on Fridays over the course of the month of July in their 40- 50 minute video bite size chunks. 

You know what to do, pop over to the London Embroidery School website and head to the online classes section to make your selection.

January’s Student of the Month

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This month’s student of the month is @elena.grandi00 who has just finished this piece of goldwork, featuring bright check chipping and pearle purl edging.

Elena has taken a few classes with us over the years, one of which was a goldwork course which you can see in these more recent works.

She has a passion for Cosplay and this piece looks like it will go towards one of her stunning costumes, we cant wait to see the finished effect.

Her skills are not restricted to her cosplay though as she works as a seamstress for Ballet and Opera in Rome.

Check out her instagram account for other pieces she has worked on and costumes she has made as you will find some serious inspiration!

If you would like to be the february #studentofthemonth, use the hashtag #londonembroideryschool or tag us when sharing your photos from your London Embroidery School class or the things you have gone onto make following one of our class.

All Images courtesy of @elena.grandi00 (Artwork by @hannah_alexander_artwork)

Day 4 of our 10K Celebrations

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Can you believe we are on day 4 already, our celebrations are flying by!

Today’s offering is one for the goldworkers amongst you as we have 20g Mixed Bright Check free!

To claim your free bright check go to the‘Thank you for 10k Instagram Followers’ tab in menu bar will reveal the Day 4: Free Mixed Bright Check and click through. Add the item to your basket and process your order as normal.

Sample of chipping using bright check from our intern Flo Sargent

T’s and C’s:

The offer will stay live whilst stock lasts only.

Postage and packaging is not included so there will be a delivery cost.

One per customer please, let’s spread the love around.

New Quantity for Coloured Check

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You asked and we listened, we are happy to announce that we now stock all of our coloured check bullion in 10g bags!

All of these are available for £3.80 per 10g so fill your boots because with these jazzy colours, they wont last long.

February’s Student of the Month

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This month, our student of the month is @Andiehill who shared with us her lovely use of spangles and bright check in her plantagenet roses. Well done! Email us for your discount code so we can see what other gorgeous things you can make.

Check out her instagram @andie.hill to learn more about Andie and her other stitching projects.

Alternatively if you would like to be March’s #studentofthemonth, use the hashtag #londonembroideryschool when sharing your photos from your London Embroidery School class or the things you have gone onto make following the class.

All Images courtesy of @andie.hill