London Embroidery School

Central London Embroidery School

silk shading

November Student of the Month

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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

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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!

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

Share you work with us for a chance to be selected as student of the month and a chance to win 10% off on the shop. Which can be used on all equipment, materials and classes.

Send us your work via facebook, instagram, or email! Feel free to tell us a little about yourself and show off your skills! Remember to tag London embroidery school, and use the hashtag #londonembroideryschool or #lesstudent

Your work will be featured across all of our networks.

 

 

From Sketch to Stitch

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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.

 

 

Since I am a magpie when it comes to stitching I had to add some rough purl onto one of the

shapes, however I feel like a goldwork class is now in order as my lines could be straighter!

By Charlotte Pearson

More information on our courses mentioned here!

Silk shading 

Goldwork

Machine Embroidery

February at the London Embroidery

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Here is what is coming up this month:

Starting Wednesday 7th Feb: Beginners Goldwork Evening Course

Saturday 10th Feb: Beginners Silk Shading Weekend Workshop

 

Saturday 24th Feb: Beginners Tambour Weekend Workshop

Join us to learn some of these specialist skills and see what beautiful things you can make using them. Follow the links for more details

Silk Shading Course has finally launched!

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The London Embroidery School are now running a new course – Beginners Silk Shading – for all you budding embroiderers out there! This course has been on the pipeline for a long time and we are happy to say its now ready!

The Silk Shading Course teaches the delicate art of silk shading from our RSN trained tutor. 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.

The course is taught over 6 hours on a weekend and will provide a comprehensive introduction of the techniques used so that you can manipulate your skills to suit your own future projects. You will also learn how to form long and short stitch for tapestry shading and how to apply your design onto your ground.

 

The next course date is on Saturday 2nd September – 10am – 4:30pm which gives you plenty of time to book, but please book at least 1 week in advance to secure your spot. Your purchase is also made with a table clamp frame and variation of needles which you can then take home after the class to practice!

If you have any more questions please do not hesitate to contact us on info@embroidery.london

Happy stitching!