Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs

Preparing the Needle

A course by Theresa Wensing , Embroidery Artist

93% positive reviews (30)

2,020 students

Audio: German

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About the video: Preparing the Needle

Overview

“Now you will learn how to thread the needle without a needle threader, how long the thread should be and why a knot at the end of the thread is important. ”

In this video lesson Theresa Wensing addresses the topic: Preparing the Needle, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs. Learn the basic stitches and design digital motifs to embroider negative lettering designs on a range of themes.

Partial transcription of the video

“Prepare the needle In the last lesson I showed what materials needed. In this lesson I want to show you how to thread or prepare your needle. What do you think? What do we need a separate lesson for? There are actually one or two little tricks or tips which I would like to give you with this. Exactly, you have already selected the right needle. So, now you just cut something like this... I would say 30 cm from the thread. It is very important that you don't get much longer than these 30 cm. Because they say the longer the thread, the easier it gets tangled. So now you have your approximatel...”

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Course summary for: Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs

Level: Beginner
93% positive reviews (30)
2020 students
4 units
17 lessons (2h 51m)

Category
Craft
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design

Theresa Wensing

A course by Theresa Wensing

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Embroidery Artist

Theresa Wensing is a Cologne-based embroidery artist.
She studied media and cultural studies and works full-time as a project manager. Embroidery came into her life as a lockdown hobby: she wanted to use the time inside to do something productive and not scroll through her phone all day. Since then, embroidery has developed into Theresa's creative outlet, which helps her to meditatively escape from the hectic, completely digitized everyday life.

Today she produces her own digital designs which she sells through her Etsy shop and already has over 100,000 followers on Instagram where she shares her embroidery projects and patterns.