Cross-Stitch Portrait Creation
Making Jewelry with Smaller Pieces
A course by Emily Peacock , Needlework Designer
About the video: Making Jewelry with Smaller Pieces
Overview
“If you want to make jewelry, you will need to have a small piece stitched onto a high count fabric. ”
In this video lesson Emily Peacock addresses the topic: Making Jewelry with Smaller Pieces, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cross-Stitch Portrait Creation. Learn how to draw, chart, and stitch your own handcrafted portrait from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Making jewellery with smaller pieces If you've decided to do a smaller piece as your final project, in this lesson I'll show you how to turn it into a small piece of jewellery. You may have remembered when I talked about fabrics that I showed you a waste canvas, which was like this. And if you remember, you can put it on top of a piece of fabric and you can stitch through it. You can form the cross-stitches and put water on top of it, and pull the threads away. That's exactly what I've done with this piece here. I've stitched over the waste fabric, I've taken the stitches away, and the eye ...”
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Course summary for: Cross-Stitch Portrait Creation
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Decoration, Embroidery, Textile Design
Emily Peacock
A course by Emily Peacock
Best known for her bright colors, typography, and quirky designs, Emily is a needlework designer from the UK who thinks of herself as a graphic designer that works in wool.She began her professional career as a graphic designer in London, working in typography, design, and illustration. Emily rediscovered her love of needlework upon moving to calmer surroundings in France. Returning to the UK four years later inspired her to work on needlework designs full time, thanks to growing popularity in her cross-stitching kits and features of her work in magazines.
Today, Emily works on private commissions, artist collaborations, and large projects for global companies. She also designs and makes cross stitch and needlepoint kits and teaches needlework at The V&A London, The Royal School of Needlework, and on cruise ships around the world. In 2018, she was awarded Designer of the Year at the first National Needlecraft Awards.
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