5 Essential Stumpwork Embroidery Techniques

Published 2/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 3.57 GB | Duration: 1h 32m

Create 3D elements for your embroidery using wire wrapping, padding, picots, slips, needlelace

What you’ll learn
Wrapping techniques – Making wire wrapped elements such as tree branches or hands
Padding – using different forms of padding
Picots – stitching attached and detached woven picots
Introduction to needlelace
Making wired and unwired slips

Requirements
No experience of stumpwork embroidery is necessary to complete this techniques course.
Some experience of embroidery would be helpful but not essential

Description
Have you ever thought about adding 3D elements to your embroideries and not known where to start Would you like to add free standing petals to a flower, wings to a butterfly or leaves on a tree What about creating a lace effect for a leaf or a person’s clothing If you can answer yes to any of these questions or are just curious to know more then this course is for you.In this course you will learn how to make 3D elements to enhance and elevate your embroidery. You will learn the techniques to use which you can then use in your own way to create free-standing leaves, flowers, wings, trees, clothing etc to be then applied to your project.We will cover:Making wire wrapped elements such as tree branches or handsDifferent forms of paddingAttached and detached woven picotsWired and unwired slips which are elements that are made separately and then applied eg wings, leaves, blackberries and acornsNeedlelace which can be used for things like clothes, leaves and wingsOnce you have learnt these skills you will then be able to experiment and adapt them to use in your own work, perhaps using different materials and changing the scale of the piece.You do not need any experience of stumpwork to take this course however if you have some experience of embroidery it would be helpful but by no means essential.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is Stumpwork

Lecture 3 Materials Needed

Section 2: Wrapping Wire

Lecture 4 Wire Wrapping branches

Section 3: Woven Picots

Lecture 5 Woven Picots

Lecture 6 Detached Picots

Section 4: Padding

Lecture 7 Felt Padding

Section 5: Needlelace

Lecture 8 Getting Started with Needlelace

Lecture 9 Corded Buttonhole Stitch

Section 6: Slips

Lecture 10 Wired Slips

Lecture 11 Wired Slips 2

Embroiderers who would like to extend their embroidery skills to include 3D effects in their work

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