• £85

Landscapes

  • Course
  • 26 Lessons

Explore the British rolling countryside in stitch. This course is designed for intermediate students who have done some free motion embroidery before. We will cover, laying down background fabrics, couching yarns as land contours, lots of trees in a variety of stitch techniques, how to use different thicknesses of threads and much more!

Introduction video

A little bit about the course.
* Update, the course is roll on roll off, you have it for as long as I am running them for, years! Join anytime and complete it at your own pace.*

All about the course

Rolling landscapes: we will celebrate our beautiful world in stitch. I will cover a variety of ways to lay down background fabrics, we will explore variations in couching down yarns and even creating your own yarns. 
We will explore trees in straight stitch and also free motion in zigzag stitch too, trees both in the distance and closer. I will cover how to create depth in your work and basic perspective. 

A little bit of beginners hand stitching too and how to use frayed edges successfully. 

If you want to use hand dyed fabrics there will be an extra mini course you can take as an add on. 

There are lots of videos of me stitching.
Clear downloadable instruction supporting the video lessons
Downloadable landscape template
Troubleshooting video

Access to a Facebook group exclusively for members of this course where you can share ideas, support each other and chat with like-minded people. Or you can add a photo of what you have been making in the comments box.

Technical support -- there will be technical assistance available if you have any tech problems. Email johilltechhelp@gmail.com

Videos and all content will be available once you have enrolled on demand to watch as many times as you want.

Zigzag Trees

Have a go at doing free motion embroidery in zigzag stitch, we explore all sorts of possibilities.

What you will need for the course

You will need backing fabrics that are firm, I use 10 oz and 8 oz cotton canvas. I suggest you buy 1 roll of each to get you started, this should be enough. 
A range of thinner fabrics in a mix of landscape colours to appliqué onto your work. 
Yarns preferably Chunky weight but anything can be adapted to create your own. 
An assortment of machine threads.
A vanishing pen is handy, bondaweb or other heat transfer paper.  505 repositioned spray used in quilt making, 8” wooden hoop no higher than 1cm is useful and tracing paper.
I use cmc paste, wallpaper paste will do fine, optional spray starch.

Contents

Welcome to Landscapes!

Landscape Course Introduction
Technical Information
Course Materials
Trouble Shooting
Backing Fabrics

Getting Started with Doodles

Landscape Doodles
Design Principle Basics
Drawing trees

Textile Techniques For Later Use

Bobbin Yarns
Zig Zag Cords
Bonus Cords
Couching
Using CMC Paste

Traced Background for the First Project

Landscape Traced

Fabric Background Layering for the Second Project

Background Fabric Landscape for Cards
Adding Trees
Hand Stitching
Making the Cards

Cutaway Background Techniques Third Project

Cut Away Background
Zig Zag Tree Doodles
Adding Zig Zag Trees to Your Work
Adding Foreground

Understanding Perspective

Perspective
Recap
Thank you!
Student Examples

Card project

After making a long piece we cut them up and add some hand stitch before making them into cards, this is a very popular module.

Confetti Leaves

Trees both large and small, this large one uses the confetti technique for the leaves. We do this in the first project using a traced background from a template I provide but I show you how you can use your own too.

Cord making

I show you a few methods of making cords, some tried and tested traditional techniques and some new ideas of my own. We use them as couching yarns for land contours.

  • £85

Landscapes

  • Course