Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle

Overview

“The hardest part is getting started so just dive right in to your work and lay down your colors. Don’t think about it too much, you can always unravel whatever you’re not happy with at this stage. This is an important step for determining your palette and level of contrast.”

In this video lesson Camille Labarre addresses the topic: Punching Shapes: Laying Down Your Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle. Learn how to create unique embroidered portraits full of color and texture using the punch needle technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“Punching shapes Laying down your colors We're ready to start punching and I'm going to teach you the punching process in three steps. First we'll lay down the big shapes. Then we'll lay down the lines and the dots. This lesson we'll just cover laying down the big shapes of color. Before we get too far into that, I'd like to discuss my setup here. I've got the same canvas stretcher bars that we worked on to make our canvas that I've screwed onto an old door hinge, and I have then screwed this door hinge into pre-drilled holes into the table using wood screws. What I've gained from that is th...”

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Course summary for: Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (107)
• 2179 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 23m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Punch Needle, Textile Design