Creative Exchange – Creative Embroidery

Welcome to Kickstart Arts’ Creative Exchange: Sharing Skills and Culture.

Session Title: Creative Embroidery

Description: Aukje will take you through a journey of discovery through a variety of embroidery stitches, adding fun and freedom to your way of working. You’ll firstly be shown how to loosen up and achieve a freer style of embroidery, and then how to sketch a design and transfer it onto cloth. Aukje will also show you how to include found or collected objects into your design, by attaching them to the cloth.

What you’ll get: 

• Lots of new ideas and inspiration for embroidery stitching
• A number of samples of work to take home with you
• Many new ways to include sketches and objects in your fabric projects
• Sketchbook, pencil and eraser

What to bring:

• Any lighter weight fabrics, Eg silk, cotton
• Any medium weight natural fabrics Eg linen, wool, silk, cotton, wool blanket
• Thread Eg stranded embroidery floss, perle, linen, crochet and knitting yarns
• Sewing kit Eg scissors, pins, needles suited to your threads
• Any drawing tools you like to use Eg sketch book, pencils, pens, charcoal or crayons (optional: we will provide a basic sketch kit)
• Found or collected items Eg buttons, beads, beach glass, shells, wood, etc
• Lunch to keep you going
• A piece of clothing to embroider onto (optional)

About Creative Exchange: Kickstart Arts value community skills and knowledge, so we started up Creative Exchange – Hobart’s newest destination for teaching, learning, sharing and collaborating!