The Joy of Stitch: Adventures in Free-Motion Embroidery

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Explore your creativity with Artisan Stitch's brand new 3-day Summer School Course to explore Free-Motion Embroidery.

About The Joy of Stitch: Adventures in Free-Motion Embroidery

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I've created this exciting new trio of workshops for the 2025 Summer School Programme, aimed at helping you explore your creativity and discover that sewing isn't just about taking up hems. Even if you've never done any 'textiles' or art before, these fun classes will teach you how to be creative in Textile Art. No drawing needed!

(Adults 16 years +)

The course runs Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th August 2025, 10am to 4pm each day.

Booking closes 30 July. Early Bird tickets available until 30 March.

The Joy of Stitch - Course description

The Joy of Stitch: Adventures in Free-Motion Embroidery will give you the basic skills you'll need to be creative in fabric.

Day 1: Free-Motion Embroidery. I'll show you basic and advanced FME techniques to create patterns and textures, building up to creating a stitched picture.

Day 2: Further opportunities to use FME to produce decorative items. You'll make a decorative stitched panel for either a zipped pouch, small bag or cushion. You can incorporate fabric scraps to give surface texture and pattern if you wish.

Day 3: Working with Dissolvable fabrics. Create a piece of art from thread and thin air! At least it will seem like it! I'll show how to use various types of dissolvable fabrics to make a bowl, small wearable scarf, or a stitched picture.

Who is 'The Joy of Stitch' aimed at?

The Joy of Stitch: Adventures in Free-Motion Embroidery is ideal if you are exploring textile art for the first time and want to find a focus for your creativity. It's also ideal if you've been doing traditional quilting and would like to break out into something less formal, or if you're a Beginner Quilter and would like to learn Free-Motion Quilting and other textile skills to your repertoire.

Level: Previous Free-Motion Embroidery experience is not required, but you must have competent sewing machine skills gained from my Beginner Sewing Course XL or similar. Adults 16 years +

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