silk shading

December’s Student of the Month…

Saturday 2nd January 2021 by Natasha Searls-Punter Leave a Comment

We have a new student of the month to announce…. @annbeckembroidery

Ann has been working hard for some months now on this beautiful box as a Christmas present, from original design to fruition. We have been watching eagerly from the sidelines and now as it is finished we certainly think she deserves congratulating!

Using a combination of silk shading, goldwork and beading, it makes for a truely stunning gift that’s we are sure will be very well received.

So, to Ann, look out in your email for your winners discount voucher and we hope to see more beautiful things from you!

If you would like to be the first #studentofthemonth of 2021, 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 @annbeckembroidery

November Student of the Month

Wednesday 12th December 2018 by Natasha Searls-Punter

As November has come to a close, we have deliberated and the winner of student of the month is….. Hannah Gawthorpe with these lovely images of her progress at the Silk Shading Day Class- Beginners

If you are feeling inspired, and would like to try your own hand at the class Hannah took, or any of our other classes, follow the link to find more details.

Alternatively if you would like to be next month’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.

Happy Stitching…

A new design and day to learn Silk Shading

Friday 3rd August 2018 by Natasha Searls-Punter

On Friday 5th October, we have a new silk shading course taking place where we will be working on this gorgeous honeysuckle design. This technique, sometimes known as ‘painting in stitches’ allows you to create fades and colour changes through the body of the embroidery by working with multiple threads. This is particularly useful for natural forms such as flowers, fruit and animals which, once mastered, can give a very realistic effect to the embroidery.

Notice how delicately the colours change through the flower to give depth to the petals.

The class will also include french knot buds, because you can never have too many french knots.

Click here to see more about the class and secure your place!

Show us what you got!

Thursday 1st March 2018 by claire

Here at London Embroidery School we LOVE to see our students work! From our classes and especially what you go on to create after!

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Beautiful tambour beading with feathers sample created by a customer during a private tuition class! #embroidery #stitching #embellishment #tambour #tambourembroidery #tambourbeading #feathers #londonembroideryschool #sample #privatetuition #class #hautecouture #boomerang #beautiful #beading

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Tambour freestyle at our beginners tambour class last weekend #tambour #tambrourbeading #bead #beads #beading #class #workshop #embroidery #london

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Work in progress at last weeks jacobean crewelwork class #embroidery

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Remember to get your stitching practise in, embroidery is all about consistency which can only be achieved with regular refinement of your skills. Here we are are working on some monograms like in the beginners monograming evening class, next class 6th September #monogram #embroidery #london

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From Sketch to Stitch

Tuesday 6th February 2018 by claire

Machine and hand embroidery is an area that I have always been looking at exploring a lot further when it comes to idea sampling. So when I had to create a range of samples for a project this was a perfect opportunity.

I had recently attended a silk shading weekend class with the lovely Sonja at London Embroidery School and have always used my own adapted version of the technique, mainly because I had never been taught the right way to do it, for shading and mixing colours. The class covered a lot of points I had never considered would affect the way the stitching lays and the starting details for silk shading, or sometimes called needle painting.

You can have a look at my blended square below as an idea of what we got up to, as well as good conversation and wonderful teaching the relaxed environment really topped it all of and made the day most enjoyable!

I chose colours that were fairly similar in tone as I wanted to create the most blended square I could but the technique works with anything, I snuck a photo of the sample teaching piece Sonja was working on, doesn’t it look fabulous?

Armed with what I had newly learnt I started off with a sketched design and coloured it loosely for reference of where the colours would mix taking inspiration from the protea flower.

I decided the background would the neatest done on machine and give me that contrast that I was looking for, so I drew it up in our CAD software and stitched it out, this also gave me a chance to scale my drawing so I could see how much space I would be working with for the flower.

Once stitched out, I transferred the flower design onto the material and started to build the colour up, as you can see from the photos I build my colour up differently to how silk shading is taught but I was keeping in mind all of the things taught to achieve the best blend and finish to the embroidery.