BOTANICAL SEWING
 
4 week ONLINE course - Starts 30th May until 20th June.
Thursday 7.30pm - 9.00pm
 
​Maximum Class Size: 12
Level: Beginner/Intermediate. 
 
Perfect for beginners to embroidery, or for people familiar with embroidery stitching but looking to develop their own embroidery style. Also a great course to develop what participants have learned in my earlier courses so far this year.
 
Using her own unique creative approach, Fiona will show you several embroidery stitching techniques to create botanical motifs on your textiles, giving you the ability to create your own botanical inspired textile piece.
 
You will leave with knowledge of several useful embroidery stitches and a stitch sampler that you can use as reference for your own future projects.
 
You will cover the following techniques:
Getting started – setting up your hoop, handling threads, starting and stopping stitching
Split Stitch
Cable (Side to side stem stitch)
Chain Stitch
Satin Stitch
Long and Short Stitch
Close Fly Stitch
Fishbone Stitch
Weave Stitch
French Knots
Link and Lazy Daisy
Feather Stitch
Woven Rose
Bringing your stitches together to create your own composition
 
Materials you will need: 
 
An embroidery hoop
A piece of fabric
Embroidery thread
Embroidery needle
Scissors / snips
Paper and Drawing pen / pencil
 
What others have said about Fiona’s courses:
“Immediately I felt completely comfortable in the environment Fiona created for us all. It was a joy to learn something new and to be able to share such lovely quiet time, working away on our pieces with a new bunch of people. I left every session feeling lighter and like it was a huge wind down from the day. A wonderful way to spend an evening”
 
“Thank-you for this lovely, relaxing course. I learnt new skills, got lots of ideas and thoroughly enjoyed each session”.
 
“Fiona creates very well structured, thoughtful and engaging content which is clearly laid out before the course even starts which get you excited. The sessions were a real treat, sitting learning at a gentle pace but with loads of inspiration and challenges. Extremely pleasurable experience and Fi has a friendly natural teaching style.”
 
“I'm developing new skills, am motivated to try things and am gently getting to know other people too. Fiona's community has a comfortable atmosphere for both artistic people and those at the more crafty end of the creative spectrum.”