I thought I might spend a bit of time over the next few days giving you more information about the classes I’ll be teaching at Beating Around the Bush.
Elizabethan Strawberry Roundel
With Yvette Stanton
Sunday 15th April 2012
This charming strawberry ornament features Elizabethan embroidery stitches such as buttonhole filling, reverse chain stitch and plaited braid stitch. Working with silks, paillettes and good quality imitation gold threads, this project will introduce you to the delights of Elizabethan embroidery. In red, green and gold, it would make a lovely Christmas decoration.
Many people admire plaited braid stitch but are scared of attempting it themselves. In this class, you’ll learn how to stitch it, with personal instruction from both me and my written instructions.
Skill level: intermediate stitchers (not complete beginners). This is because we will have a lot to get through in the one day, so instructing complete beginners would suck up a lot of my time, meaning the other students would miss out on me. Because I want everyone to have equal access to my tuition, stitchers with some experience – even if they’ve never done THESE PARTICULAR stitches before – are welcome in this class.
Kit Contents: Linen fabric, cotton backing fabric, silk thread, imitation gold thread, pailettes, needles, padding, card, instructions
Please bring with you: 10cm embroidery hoop, magnification (recommended), wash out marking pencil or HB pencil, embroidery scissors
Kit Cost: $23.00 AUD
To book in, please go to the TryBooking website.
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
Lovely project.
Any chance that this might become a cyberclass? No matter how much I might wish to take an in-person class with you, it will not happen. I live too far away, in the Yukon in Canada.
Hi Rhea,
The idea of online classes comes up occasionally. Its something that I’d like to be able to offer, but I’m not sure that I can. My business is primarily writing books, which takes a large amount of time. I suspect that online classes would be quite time consuming, though I could be wrong. Certainly, if you are familiar with my step-by-step instructions you will understand that any kit that I provide of my projects does have detailed instructions. And I always offer that people who buy my books and kits are welcome to contact me with questions. Maybe I need to take an online class (while I’m between books) and learn how they work…
I’m sure someone who already gives classes would be happy to talk about it with you!
As long as they didn’t think I might take their students away from them (unlikely, I know, but a possibility!).