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Last Minute Father’s Day Gift Idea

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Tie Lining Monogram Example

With all that’s been going on has Father’s Day crept up on you?
Does your Dad like making or fixing things?
We’ve got a gift idea you might not have considered… One of our Online Classes.

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Goldwork Letter 2 Online Class- Couching and Pearle Purl

Now hear me out- I know you are thinking…
”But you’re embroidery school- I don’t think my Dad would enjoy that’’
However there is such a variety in embroidery that we think we have something for anyone, as we believe sewing skills are for everyone.

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Darning Repairs Online Class Visible Repair

What about the darning class if yours is a practical Dad that likes to fix things but hasn’t yet extended that to his own jeans?

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Darning Repairs Online Class

Or the Monogramming Class series for swarve Dads that would get a great sense of satisfaction from being able to add a little personalised touch to their sense of style.
Find these amongst the many other classes we offer online and get your Dad a new skill for Father’s Day that he could use for years to come.

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Monogramming Online Class Part 3 Serif

Ombre Chiffon Rose Kits

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Our community seems to have loved the easy to make Chiffon Roses Online Class since its launch last year, so we thought it deserved some extra love for 2021. We now offer an Ombre Chiffon Rose Mini Kit option which adds an element of softly blended colour to these fabric embellishments.

Each kit still contains 3 pieces of chiffon, to make 3 roses with. Thanks to the ombre fabric, each piece of fabric blends from one colour into the next with all three being different from one another and making for a beautiful pastel palette. Once made up into the roses, the colours merge into one another seamlessly adding definition and interest to your piece.

Follow the link here to choose your mini kit and chiffon rose online class and start making your chiffon roses.

They look so pretty even before you get started!

January’s Student of the Month

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January is over- phew! And so we have a new student of the month to announce…. @hanlroberts


Hannah purchased our Goldwork Online Class and kit and has been working away on her pear in great detail.

I’m sure you will agree she has made a fantastic job of it and even though she says that the cutwork was tough, we think she should be very pleased with it.

Hannah is quite an accomplished stitcher from her instagram page, you can see she has turned her hand to lots of wonderful stitching kits, all of which could be adverts themselves !

Hannah’s finished Craftpod Kit

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.

Hannah’s finished Emilie Ferris Kit

All Images courtesy of @hanlroberts

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!

Christmas Postage Dates are now past…

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As we are expecting some disruption to the postal system this year, our date for Christmas postage for all countries including the UK has now past. However we are still working and will continue to dispatch orders up to the 20th Dec, we just cant say that they should get to you before Christmas. Any orders placed after the 20th Dec will be fulfilled after our Christmas break, and will be due to leave us by the 6th Jan 2021.

We hope that fits in with all your plans 🙂

LES

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