Linda Miller – Pictorial Machine Embroidery

2 Days with this inspirational tutor

Come along with your sewing machine and join Linda to sew up the mysteries of free machine embroidery

Bring along a drawing, a picture or a photograph that inspires you..Using a sumptuous array of threads in a variety of colours and thicknesses and working with your own sewing machine, you will learn how to translate your original design into your very own picture of stitches, jewellery item or embroidery piece.

Students will be guided through all aspects of creating a design, placing imagery, incorporating a background and a foreground into their design and how to finish and present their work to its full and deserved potential.

The workshop is designed for the novice or the more confident stitcher who wishes to explore the numerous techniques and textures created by threads and stitch, not to mention the delight of sewing andworking with colour to create pictorial machine embroidery

REQUIREMENTS

Electric sewing machine, in good working order which can drop the dog feed teeth or has a plate that fits over the teeth

Your sewing machine manual and accessories

A darning foot/free motion machine embroidery foot that is compatible with your machine

Size 80 m/c needles and hand sewing needles

Calico, medium/heavy weight, 1/2 metre

Notebook and pen, pencil, paper, ruler

8″/20cm wooden embroidery hoop

Embroidery/sharp scissors

Any machine threads you have

Bobbins/spools for your machine

Any hand embroidery threads you have

Stitch and Tear stabilising fabric

Reference materials, pictures, drawings, books, photographs, patterning – visual material that interests you.

Remember – it is very important that your machine is in good working order and that the feed dog teeth can be dropped or a plate fitted over, and that you have a free mtion darning foot that iscompatible with your machine. Bring all your machine tools and the sewing machine manual

Please bring as much as you can from the list, however if you do not have something, Linda will always have everything with her which can be purchased at a small cost.