Contemporary Landscape Embroidery

Overview

“To finish this unit, I will show you how to back the embroidery hoop with felt to give it a polished, professional look. ”

In this video lesson Anna Hultin addresses the topic: Backing Your Hoop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Landscape Embroidery . Stitch together abstract and contemporary landscapes using traditional embroidery techniques with a unique twist.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson I will show you how to back your hoop with felt to give it a really polished and professional look. The first thing we're going to do is cinch the fabric around our hoop to pull it together in the back. If you haven't already cut your fabric into a circle, go ahead and do that right now, leaving about two inches on the edge. You can see mine's not perfect and that's fine. We're going to thread our needle with a single thread. Putting the two ends of it together. and threading that through our needle. First, we need to anchor this thread on the edge of our fabric. So we're goi...”

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Course summary for: Contemporary Landscape Embroidery

• Level: Beginner
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• 1333 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (2h 12m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Textile Design, Traditional illustration