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Pages Mushroom Pin Cushion Online Class Now Available

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mushroom pages gills with tree

Pages is a lesser known couture technique where layers upon layers of fabrics are built up on top of one another and stitched down to fan out and look like the pages of a book. Because this technique is all about the approach, we wanted to find a way to teach pages for a practical outcome. Therefore during the pages mushroom pincushion online class you will learn about how pages technique is usually used when creating for a couture outcome, and then apply our knowledge and practice the pages technique whilst building our own luxurious pin cushion.

Mushroom Pin cushion with hand

With a bright red, velvet top scattered with pearl details, a sturdy weighted woolen stem skirt and one hundred pages technique gills, this class and kit will leave you with an understanding of this high fashion technique and a lovely new sewing project companion to boot. The kit will take approx 2-4 hours to complete and your mushroom will be about 10cm high with 10cm diameter.

3 red velvet mushrooms at base of tree

Click through the images to get your kit on its way.

Mother’s Day 2021 Organdie Roses

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With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we though we would share some of our favourite ways to style up the Organdie Rose to best suit her:

Attach it to Long Bar Pin for an easy way to add your gift to any outfit

Perhaps add to a sun hat as the weather starts to improve

Apply it to a Hair Barrette for a striking hair accessory

The French Twist is optional 🙂

Or grab a piece of ribbon and fashion it into a Corsage

A beautiful addition for any special occasion you might have coming up as things start to relax once again

The Organdie Rose Mini Kits are available in 5 colours so there is something to suit the taste of every mum.

 

Mother’s Day in the UK is Sunday 14th March this year, so don’t delay and get your kit and online class on its way so you have time to make her a thoughtful handmade present this year.

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.

In need of some Monogramming Inspiration?

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When you have worked hard on building up you stitching skill, having taken all the monogramming online classes and practised your techniques you will want to put them to good use right?


Let us take you through a little inspiration as you soak up some ideas about where you could apply your monogramming skills on items or gifts for your future projects. It is one thing to learn the skills on fabric, and quite another to be able to transfer them onto usable items such as jackets, accessories and keepsakes.

Once you have picked your item, you then need to decide on what will be written, the arrangement, font style and size. Hopefully taking a look at some of the possibilities might help you to start making the decision for your stitching. Follow the link so see the full video and absorb all those ideas!

Goldwork Letters 2 Out Now!

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Goldwork Letters Style 2: Couching and Overstretched Pearle Purl has arrived.

Bringing colour and texture to the party, this goldwork class for a lettering outcome is designed for those who have done a little goldwork before and want to step it up a gear. Taught by breaking the letters down into their characteristics, you can apply the approaches to the letter of your choosing, and it will arm you to be able to take on any shapes you might come across.

There are no kits for this class as we encourage you to make your own creative material choices for a truly personalised outcome, however we will guide you through what types you will need to have to hand. This makes it a great class for those who want to get started straight away, and also for using up some left over materials you might have from previous goldwork projects.
Head over to the London Embroidery school website for all the details and to start creating your own sophisticated goldwork letter piece.

 

Materials and equipment

  • Base fabrics (felt, melton is best fabric if you are thinking about make it into a patch) & Calico (medium tight weave – any Goldwork with Plunging technique includes requires a supporting base fabric unless you are working on very heavy non stretch fabric)
  • Pricker
  • Pounce
  • Tracing paper design drawn (printed out or drawn. Blue transferable paper work too so no need to prick & pounce)
  • Gel Pen/ Water soluble Pen (optional, pencil works fine if it’s light fabric)
  • Goldwork Thread: Passing (2g – Yellow Gold Passing used in the video) & Rococco (1m – Very Fine used in the video), Pearle Purl (1g) (Some letters use less or more) Japanese Gold Thread or Twists can be used too.
  • Needles: Embroidery/Chenille Needle (Embroidery No.10 used in the video) Chenille Needle for Plunging (No. 22 used in the video) (optional) & Curved Needle (optional)
  • Thread to match Gold Thread
  • Embroidery Stranded Cotton
  • Sewing thread to match the stranded cotton
  • Heavy/stronger thread (Extra Upholstery Thread used in the video. Top Thread/Buttonhole Thread are good too) (optional)
  • Goldwork Scissors (ideally separate from normal embroidery scissors as Golwork will blunt the scissors)
  • Thread scissors
  • Mellor/Stiletto
  • Wax
  • Pins
  • Embroidery hoop/frame (ideally clamp/seat/slate frame so your both hands are free)
  • Access to a printer or trace off a computer screen at 100%
  • Temporary adhesive spray, wall paper paste, sewing machine (all optional)

Shimmery, Shiny, Sparkly things: Tambour 3 Sequins

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Shimmer, shine and sparkle fans, the tambour online class series part 3 is all about sewing sequins. Freshly launched, this third and final part of the tambour online class series sees us shimmying our way into the last stitching style.

 

We will try lines and fills, with flat and cupped sequins to master the different reflective finishes. As always the class will take you through the theory, with your practise pack of materials and then we will show off our newly learnt skills on the gold desert landscape design. This will complete the tambour landscape triptych and our first foray into couture stitching, equipping you with the skills to apply these techniques to your future projects. 

If you bought the whole series as a bundle, the class will be waiting for you in your inbox or can be purchased now as a standalone if you just want to learn about sequins. You know the drill, head to the London Embroidery School website to get all the details on this exclusive couture technique.