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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.

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.

Silk Flowers are getting some Backbone

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‘More drama!’ they cry ‘More detail’

It’s been a little while since we released a new flower design so we thought it was about time. As we are always looking to up our game, I think you will agree that this one takes it up a step again. Introducing the Structural Flowers Orchid Design Online Class.

We’ve started with the Orchid design to bring a little glamour and a touch of the exotic to our collection of silk flowers. This style of silk flower making is wonderful for making flowers with very striking and unusual shaped petals as the petals are wired, allowing you to mould and shape them to the sculpture they deserve to be!

And as they are structured, they are able to support a much greater amount of detail than our softer, more tactile silk flower styles. So whether you want to embroider onto the fabric like our examples, or add sequins and hot fix crystals, or even silk paint your fabric these flowers will take it on.

During the online class we will walk you through the making of the purple example shown; including prepping the fabric, embroidering the details, cutting the shapes, inserting the wires, constructing and shaping your piece.

There are Mini or Deluxe kits available to go with this online class to get you started depending on our requirements.

New Organdie Rose Colours

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Seeing as you all seemed to enjoy our organdie roses class and kits so much, we have been very much looking forward to sharing with you the news that are expanding our colour range. In addition to the lovely sunshine yellow we started with, we will now be stocking mini kits in 4 other colours, Rosewood Pink, Terracotta orange, Seafoam Green and Lavender Lilac.

As you can see these colours are great to mix together or match to you own colour scheme. The sculptural nature of the organdie roses means that you can manipulate them to be as big and open, or newly blooming a flower as you wish. Where do you plan on using your organdie roses, I’ve got mine earmarked for millinery, table settings, bouquets, hair accessories, corsages….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CyZrCBNATo&feature=youtu.be

Find these in the kits heading of online classes on the london embroidery school website to have your mini kits sent to you at home.

April’s Student of the Month

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Like the rest of the world, we have had some big changes over the last few months, having postponed all of our studio classes, we have been trying to bring our classes to you at home online. Therefore this month’s student of the month is someone who has been engaging a lot with the online classes, making lots of beautiful things and refining her skills @a.sodha !

Starting with the Valentino Roses Class, but also having made lots of chiffon roses, the combination of the two designs is stunning.

@a.sodha has also been joining us on the live stitch alongs on instagram, so it has been lovely to get to know her a little from chatting there. Having our community get involved with us like this makes it all worth it so we are delighted that you seem to be responding to our adaptations well and long may it continue. 😉

 

If you would like to be the May’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 @a.sodha

Organdie Roses Online Class

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Today we are really excited to be launching our Organdie Roses Online Class where you will learn to make these stunning sculptural flowers. Ideal for use in bouquets, millinery, table settings you name it and these flowers will be there ready to make a big impression. By harnessing the unusual properties of the organdie we will talk you through preparing your fabric, shaping your petals and constructing your rose.

Kits are also available to go alongside this class which will provide you with the materials needed for us to guide you in making your rose.

Once purchased, the link to the class will be delivered to your email, taking you directly to the full class. You can watch the video as many times as you like, wherever you like, whenever you like.

Head over to the Online classes pages, where you can purchase this class and kit to get started and browse through the other online classes we also have available.

Once purchased, the link to the class will be delivered to your email, taking you directly to the full class. You can watch the video as many times as you like, at your own convenience, in the comfort of your home.

Head over to the online classes section to purchase this class and kits to get started.