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Camellia Online Class is Out Now!

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The much anticipated Camellia Online Class has come to the London Embroidery School. Heavily requested by our community, this online class will teach you to make the timelessly styling camellia design from easy to access items. If you have seen these fabric flowers before, they are usually made with heated shaping tools which are very niche, hard to get hold of and a little pricey so we have developed a pattern for you to create a similar effect without the hassle.

You can use your own materials and purchase the class only or grab one of our kits too and make it in the materials shown in the recording. Initially we will be launching this class in two colour ways of the sumptuous Boucles tweed with a leather version to follow in the near future.


During the class we will walk you through all the potential adaptations you could make to your design to create the best outcome for your fabric choice so that you can style the Camellia your way.

Items needed:
Fabric 25x25cm
Sewing Thread to match fabric colour (buttonhole thread if using leather)
Embroidery Needle No10 or Leather needle
Thimble (optional/ for leather )
(woven fabrics only)
Paper Petal Guide (sent to you with class email purchase)
Small Scissors–
PVA Glue (approx 40ml)
Modelling glue applicator (Leather only)
Small shallow container for PVA wash (woven fabrics only)
Gel Pen/ Fabric Marker / pencil
Iron on Backing (vilene) 25x25cm (open weave fabrics only eg boucles tweed)
Center embellishments (optional)
Access to an iron (open weave fabrics only)
A place to hang dry your PVA washed fabric (woven fabrics only)

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.

Christmas Postage Dates are now past…

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As we are expecting some disruption to the postal system this year, our date for Christmas postage for all countries including the UK has now past. However we are still working and will continue to dispatch orders up to the 20th Dec, we just cant say that they should get to you before Christmas. Any orders placed after the 20th Dec will be fulfilled after our Christmas break, and will be due to leave us by the 6th Jan 2021.

We hope that fits in with all your plans 🙂

LES

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Free Lace Jewellery Flowers Design Online Class

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This class launch, Lace Jewellery Flowers Design, follows the success of the first of the first we released in this style, the leaves design. This too is aimed at our novice embroiderers where together we will be working to make a pair of embellished lace earrings. Using basic techniques we will guide you towards good practises as we add the beads and sequins to the lace, whilst considering the piece as a whole for a 3D outcome. If you are fairly new to embroidery then this one is great for you as we share some of our tips that will help you on your way. Oh and did we mention, the class itself is free so you can enjoy the techniques taught and apply them to your own projects if you like.


This approach is more of a challenge on how to be delicate and tension your work as it is a bit fiddly. The finished pieces make a lovely thing to gift to someone special as the outcomes are so pretty and will post well if you aren’t able to see one another particularly at the moment .


The flowers design kit will be the first design in this style, though there are more kits to come which you can apply the same techniques to, or freestyle it to really make them your own. Kits are available to purchase on our website so head there now to grab your class and choice of kit today.

New Iris Structural Flower Mini Kit Launch

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Following on from the popularity of the Orchid Structural flowers class, we have developed a new flower in the same technique. So from today you can now get our newest Structural Flowers design, the Iris kit. As this kit uses the same techniques as the orchid, we suggest you take that class first so we can walk you through step by step whilst working on the same design. The Iris is a kit only so it is for you to challenge yourself and apply what you have already learned from the orchid class to this design. 

The larger surface area and exposed petals of the Iris gives you an even greater scope to personalise and customise this structural flower to your vision. So whether you want to embroider, silk shade or silk paint the petal shapes first, or embellish them once it is constructed.

So if you are looking for a new project you can achieve at home, look no further and head to the online classes kits section to get your structural flowers iris design sent to your door.

September’s Student of the Month

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It would seem like for those in the UK, autumn is well and truly here. Behind us are the days of wanting to spend all our time outside (Covid permitting). Bring on those snuggly months with a blanket, hot chocolate and the desire to stay inside and perhaps, I don’t know, maybe do some stitching. Like this month’s student of the month who has definitely been getting their stitching hours in recently @diannasmith646

Tambour Online Class 2: Beads by @diannasmith646

Here is someone who with a swift glance at their Instagram page, clearly loves textiles and making and craft in it’s forms. Dianna took out Tambour Online Class Series and wasted no time in getting started and dedicating her skills to this technique.

 

Tambour Online Class 1: Stitches by @diannasmith646

As you can see above, here winning picture is of her tambour 2 outcome, the beads class of the tambour series where she shows a real finesse for this style of embroidery. The other parts of the class are also very good, but that one just had the edge for us. It would seem that Dianna sensed that in herself too as she has already started and made serious headway on testing a new project with her tambour skills.

Tambour Bead project- Beaded purse by @diannasmith646

Bringing a great sense of humour to her craft projects, check her Instagram out if you need a little motivation as you will find it in spades. Dianna seems to be able to jump between different techniques very easily and goes to show how varied and exciting making things with your own hands can be.

If you would like to be the October’s #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.

Pendant Pin Cushion Project by @diannasmith646

All Images courtesy of @diannasmith646