Hand embroidery is a wonderful way to enhance your me-made wardrobe, adding colour, texture and extra personality to the clothes you make. Whether you’re new to embroidery or keen to build on your existing skills, this Digital Masterclass will show you how to confidently add gorgeous stitched details to your garments.
Through over an hour of instruction, Lauren guides you through the essentials of adding embroidery to clothing, from which fabrics you could add stitched details on, to ideas for different design layouts. You’ll learn which needles to use, how thread thickness affects your finished design, and tips for threading your needle.
Lauren shows you how to start and finish your embroidery neatly, as well as step-by-step demonstrations of 13 different embroidery stitches. These key stitches will help you to build up your own collection of techniques and develop your hand-sewing skills. Lauren also shows you how to use dissolvable paper to transfer and create designs, helping you achieve beautiful results even if you’re new to embroidery.
You’ll see examples of embroidery applied to real garments, including ideas for design layouts and suggestions for which stitches work best with different motifs. Whether you’re adding a small detail to a collar or creating a statement feature, the ideas in this course will help you bring your vision to life.
Lauren also covers troubleshooting and how to care for your finished embroidered garments, so your creations continue to look beautiful over time. This class works perfectly alongside our water-soluble embroidery pattern sheets, but the techniques and advice can also be used without them to create lovely stitched details.
By the end of this Digital Masterclass, you’ll have the confidence to pick up your needle and thread and create some mini works of art on your clothing!
Motifs on garments in the gallery above were produced using our Embroidery Pattern Sheets, which can be purchased separately below.
