Professional Embroidery Course

First of all: Happy New Year! Me and my husband spent the last day of the year reading, stitching, eating nice food and watching a documentary on Charlemagne (what a nasty guy that was...). And now it is back to business as usual. My students were here on Saturday for another day of stitching fun as part of the professional embroidery course I offer. Lets have a look at their progress!

In fact, there are so many possibilities that it is often hard to make decisions! This first piece is also a practice piece for future course modules. Although hard to imagine for them now, silk shading is so much easier in wool than it is with those finicky silken threads...

Would you like to learn new embroidery techniques in a friendly group? Then why not join us! Feel free to contact me for more information. You can also browse this website for more stunning embroidery pieces of former students. Living further away? I am looking into the possibility of offering an embroidery retreat (after all, I am living in the middle of a popular holiday destination!). Please let me know if you are interested in this possibility.

I am looking forward to your comments on my students' progress. More to come!

Annette and Christiane work on their crewel embroidery pieces. Working with fine woollen yarn on linen twill is called crewel embroidery. It originates in the Anglo-American world and it typically combines exotic floral motives with native wild life. It is a perfect technique to try out colour combinations and stitches. 

Speaking of the devil. Luise has very bravely started her silk shading module! A picture from an anemone seed packet will in the next few weeks be transformed into a stunning silk shading piece. Alone the flower petals consist of 13 different colours of Chinese flat silk. The pink shades look stunning on the dark blue dupion silk background, don't you think?