London Embroidery School

Central London Embroidery School

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Bring on the Beads!

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We’ve built the base, it’s time to bring the beads. Part 2 of the Tambour Online class series is now available. Working with the most popular use of the tambour skills, adding beading into the equation ups the difficulty level as we navigate the additional weight, changeable stitch length, shrinkage and working that underneath hand. Starting off with a pack of practise beads we will work on the techniques before we apply the skills to our landscape design, incorporating round beads, seed beads and bugle beads, straights, corners, curves and fills.

If you haven’t got any idea what those things mean, start off the tambour 1 to fill in the gaps and catch us up. Those who got in fast and purchased the whole series as a bundle will have the class waiting for you in your inbox. Kits are going quickly so if you haven’t managed to bag one or have plenty of beads of your own, you can purchase the online class on its own. This comes with a downloadable version of the design template to use your own materials with and start stitching at home right away. 

Check out all the options so you can just buy what you need. All the variations are explained on our website, follow any of the links for more info. Begin couture beading like a pro with the Tambour Online Class Series from the London Embroidery School.

The Endlessly Versatile Chiffon Rose

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Available in 4 colours, mix and match or stick with your favourite as you make these soft, luxurious, 3-D flowers.  This class is great value as £15 gets you unlimited access to the class to watch, re-watch, rewind and replay as many times as you like and a mini kit containing enough supplied to make 3 roses.


Be sure to check out the stitch along we did on our YouTube channel, working on the chiffon rose below for more ideas about how to adapt the artwork to give the roses different characteristics and best suit your outcome.

August’s Student of the Month

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Feels like Summer might be coming to an end, but what we do know has gone is August and so it is time to announce that July’s Student of the Month is….. @laurasanders_costumes !

Introduction to Embroidery Online Class by @laurasanders_costumes

Arming ourselves with new skills is a passion we all seem to share and Laura Sanders is no different. This busy University of the Arts Bournemouth graduate is always making something new and has now extended her skills into hand embroidery.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Costume- @laurasanders_costumes

We feel sure that these embroidery skills will come in very handy with her costume and dressing works for the likes of ‘Miss Saigon’ and ‘Strictly Ballroom’ in London’s Piccadilly Theatre.

Work Experience at Dorset Opera Festival – @laurasanders_costumes

Trying out smocking techniques – @laurasanders_costumes

 

 

Look out for this name… I’m sure we will be seeing more of Laura and her skills.

 

If you would like to be the September’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.

All Images courtesy of @laurasanders_costumes

Make your own Lace Jewellery

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Today’s Class launch 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, so could be a great one to get kids involved with as they have the advantage of smaller hands.

It’s also a lovely thing to make and gift to someone special as the outcomes are so pretty and will post well if you aren’t able to see one another. 

This leaves design kit will be the first design in this style, though there will be 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 in the online classes section of our website so head there now to grab your class and choice of kit today. 

Lucky Dip Organdie Rose Mini Kits

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Due to their popularity, we have launched a new product for the Organdie Rose Online Class family in the form of a lucky dip mini kit.

These packs will be made up of the off cuts and include 4 colours of organdie to make 4 roses with, the fabric for each colour will be in 2 or 3 pieces rather than the usual 1 piece of 30x30cm, but will still of course we more than enough to make a rose from. The colours included will be a random selection from our main range of colours; sunshine yellow, seafoam green, lavender lilac, rosewood pink and terracotta orange.

The icing on the cake is that these packs which make 4 roses will be only £15, a saving of 25% on the regular single colour packs which means one of your roses is free!

Snap up yours while stocks last by selecting the lucky dip packs from the drop down of the Organdie Rose Mini Kits product.

Plunging, Pearle Purl and (string) Pad additions to the Pear

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We are getting into the more tricky techniques of the goldwork pear design now, starting off this class with plunging, the rather dramatic sounding way to finish off our couching from the last class.

Furthering our finishing touches, we then will be adding the very pleasing looking pearle purl edging before we explore a new padding method with string. This will bring us to step up the difficulty towards the end of the class as we take our first foray into the challenging technique of cutwork. 

 

Get your copy of this next class on our website or if you are new to the goldwork pear design, get started by choosing one of our bundle options to grab yourself a discount on this design. There are now three of the four class parts available with the final one coming next Friday, so plenty of stitching to keep you busy till then! Check back on the 31st July for the final instalment, or have it sent direct to you on it’s release when you buy a bundle option.