Embroidery: The Absolute Beginner

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ABOUT THIS EVENT
Event Category

Arts & DIY

Note: This is a multi-session event series. By purchasing the event package, you acknowledge that you can attend all event dates included below.
Event Overview

Explore the beauty and versatility of hand embroidery. Make your own personal sampler with traditional and modern embroidery stitches and experiment with creativity. Learn a variety of techniques and be exposed to contemporary interpretations of the tradition so you can make your own unique works of art. By mastering just a few easy stitches you'll have the skills to create original works of art on cloth. Our patterns cover vintage to gothic. Our vintage patterns are scavenged from thrift shops everywhere and our contemporary patterns come from Urban Threads (a company with the same name as ours in Philadelphia). Even if you have never picked up a needle you will be able to embellish household items such as tea accessories, pillow cases, clothing, and more. You will learn how to use an embroidery hoop, make stitches with a needle, follow a pattern, and/or create your own design. Your first embroidery piece will be your stitch sampler. We will have plenty of time for group and individual stitching.

Skills Learned: Running, back, split, stem, satin, chain, feather, see, French Knot, Lazy Daisy

Schedule: This class meets once for three hours
Prerequisite: This is a total beginner's class - no previous experience necessary
Follow-Up Classes: Currently, we do not offer follow-up classes
Minimum Suggested Age:
We will Provide: Scissors, embroidery needles, embroidery hoop, Cottom DMC embroidery floss, & water soluble markers

Minimum age

All ages welcome

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Who we are!

The world around us is changing quickly but our need for communal gatherings in a nurturing and creative setting is not. Urban Threads Studio is a D-I-Y (do it yourself) collaborative studio that hopes to introduce you to the wonderful ancient craft of sewing and textile art with a 21st century twist. You may just want to rediscover a skill you learned as a child, experience the calm energy of a day of crafting or pick up an altogether new or more advanced skill like dyeing or felting. Our program hopes to accomplish all that and much more. Join us in the adventure and: register for a workshop, celebrate a next birthday with a textile art party, sign up the kids for summer camp, ask us about after school programs or enroll your youth organization in our 2013 community project.

If you need a personal consultation please call our Artistic Director, Michelle Santoro, at (708) 717-3740

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