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Colorful Hand Embroidery 101: Learn to Stitch from Scratch

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Overview

Learn to embroider with pride by making a vibrant statement piece filled with layers, colors, and textures
  • Introduction
  • Foundations of Hand Embroidery
  • Creating Your Idea
  • Get Stitchy
  • Finishing Touches
  • Final project
Embroidery is a beautiful, meditative craft that allows you to express yourself by making something truly unique. For fiber artist Kristen Gula, this practice helped her through tough times, and led her to become a thriving artist, author, and instructor. With her book 200 Embroidered Flowers, which has been translated into German and Japanese, and 98K followers on Instagram, she’s here to share with you the magic of embroidery.

In this course, Kristen takes you on a journey to learn how to embroider whatever inspires you most. Learn the basics of embroidery, from how to set up your hoop to a variety of stitching techniques. Then let the fiber artist in you blossom by creating a vibrant statement piece. Ready to discover the colorful world of embroidery?

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Materials
  • Embroidery Basics and Pattern Transfer 1
  • Embroidery Basics and Pattern Transfer 2
  • Stitch Sampler 1
  • Stitch Sampler 2
  • Finding Your Inspiration and Sketching Your Idea
  • Color and Texture
  • Stitch Review
  • Project First Layer: Filler Stitches
  • First Layer of Project: Final Stitches
  • Center of Your Project 1
  • Center of Your Project 2
  • Outlines for Project
  • Details
  • Finishing the Embroidery for Display
  • Sharing Your Work
  • Colorful Hand Embroidery: Make Your Statement

Taught by

Kristen Gula

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