Start the new year by expanding your stitching practice with this six-session, creative, embroidery workshop! Express your interests and ideas as an art form beyond packaged kits and traditional embroidery in a hoop. In this weekly six-week class you’ll learn basic stitches as a beginner or expand your stitch vocabulary (intermediate level) while looking at the history of the craft from clothing and home textiles from all over the world to contemporary art. Historical textiles will provide inspiration along with pieces by artists working today. The course will cover traditional and contemporary materials and creative exercises to inspire ideas and warm up your hands. The goal is to find stitches that you enjoy using and new ways to explore mark-making, pattern, color, and line with a needle and thread. Sessions will combine a short lecture, warm-up, and work time together.

No drawing experience is needed. You are welcome to work with patterns or freehand drawing to create your piece. You may surprise yourself when you stitch freehand!

Create an embroidery piece that you can choose to hang as artwork or use a piece of clothing as your canvas. Before the first class, I will email you some questions to think about and ask you to have your fabric or piece of clothing ready to stitch at the first session.

Limited to 6 participants.

Quotes from former participants:

“I learned so much and very importantly gained the confidence to create my own designs.”

“Loved the class! It was inspiring to meet other embroiderers and learn about the artists you showed. I appreciated your communication: kind, respectful, interested, positive, helpful.”

“I trusted my intuition and am so happy with the work I made. Thank you!”

“Thanks for the inspiration, the challenge, the supportive and exploratory atmosphere you provide for people to be together and share so openly.”

Images: The first four images are my artwork and studio wall. For more about my art practice go to @sarahpedlowstudio and sarahpedlow.com. Images 5, 6, 7, 8: participants Sharla Daviduik, Aldema Ridge, Tamar Miller, and Anat Spiegel respectively.

DATES:

6 Sundays: January 5, 12, 19, 26 and Feb 2 and 9 : 10am-12pm Pacific/ 1-3pm Eastern/ 7-9pm Central European Time