Embroidery and Fabric Painting for Beginners
Embroidery
A course by Polina Oshu , Artist and Surface Pattern Designer
About the video: Embroidery
Overview
“This is the last step of the course project! Embroidery takes a lot of time, patience, and practice. I will show how you can apply the stitches I taught you in this course to a more complicated design. The process is more or less the same as our practice runs, but the final result will be complex and with a lot of details.”
In this video lesson Polina Oshu addresses the topic: Embroidery, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery and Fabric Painting for Beginners. Use colorful markers and embroidery threads to create garments and decorations that express your personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Embroidery Embroidering is a slow process, the longest part of our final project. I suggest that you make it a kind of meditation and enjoy slowly stitching. I love to start with the gradient shape. Usually it's the biggest accent of the design, but if it's your first embroidery project, maybe it's better to start with the small element, for example, with the small embroidery area on the leaf. You should give yourselves time to get used to the textile and how the needle reacts to the textile resistance, how the threads lay, and what is the best tension of the threads here. I put the part ...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery and Fabric Painting for Beginners
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Category
Craft -
Areas
DIY, Embroidery, Painting, Pattern Design, Textile Design, Upcycling

Polina Oshu
A course by Polina Oshu
Polina Oshu is an artist and designer from St. Petersburg, Russia. She studied graphic design at the University of Industrial Technologies and Design. She went on to work as a graphic designer for eight years, creating visual identities and websites. However, her true passion was for illustration. After going on maternity leave, she used her free time to illustrate in a sketchbook and share her work on social media.
After getting wide recognition online by amassing over 128K followers on Instagram, clients began contacting her to purchase her illustrations. Since 2017, she has been creating commissions for clients such as Marks & Spencer, Lush, JucyJudy, Impression Originale, among other brands.
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