Realistic Embroidery Techniques

Overview

“I will show you my favourite technique to transfer a pattern to the fabric as well as the importance of putting the fabric in the hoop as tautly as possible. The wonderful part of painting with thread is getting to choose our colour palette for a project. I’ll also explain my thought process in choosing thread colours. ”

In this video lesson Emillie Ferris addresses the topic: Pattern Transfer , which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Embroidery Techniques. Learn how to create realistic embroidered pieces using the long and short stitch technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson I'll be showing you how to put the fabric into the hoop and then I'll show you how to trace the design onto your fabric. The tools you'll need for this lesson are A six inch hoop. pencil. some white tack. pencil sharpener Pattern to trace this pattern in particular is available in additional resources. You want your fabric pre-cut, ready to go into the six inch hoop. No smaller than 30 centimetres by 30 centimetres. And then some scissors to cut. Your pattern. As you can see, this pattern isn't the butterfly, but instead we have a small shape. This is so that we can practice ...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Embroidery Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (1320)
• 39526 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (3h 13m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration