Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs

Cutting and Hooping the Fabric

A course by Theresa Wensing , Embroidery Artist

Embroidery Artist. Cologne, Germany.
Joined December 2021
93% positive reviews (30)
2,019 students
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About the video: Cutting and Hooping the Fabric

Overview

“And how is the fabric cut and clamped in the embroidery frame? Here I show you how to do it.”

In this video lesson Theresa Wensing addresses the topic: Cutting and Hooping the Fabric, 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

“Cut and hoop the fabric In the last lesson I showed how to prepare the needle. Now I'm going to show you how to prepare the fabric, or how you cut it and clamp it in the embroidery frame. For this we need our fabric scissors, Or if you have, just a standard pair of scissors and cut the fabric now at a better distance of about 2 cm or 3 cm from the embroidery hoop. I'm going to cut out a square now, so to speak, as I said before, with a distance of 2 cm or 3 cm. But you could directly cut a circle with the distance. You can use the fabric you cut clamp in your embroidery hoop. You see I have...”

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

  • Level: Beginner
  • 93% positive reviews (30)
  • 2019 students
  • 4 units
  • 17 lessons (2h 51m)
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    Craft
  • Areas

    Embroidery, Textile Design

Theresa Wensing

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.


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Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs. Craft course by Theresa Wensing

Embroidery Art with Lettering: Negative Type Designs

A course by Theresa Wensing
Embroidery Artist. Cologne, Germany.
Joined December 2021
  • 93% positive reviews (30)
  • 2,019 students