A NEw classroom Book! Stitch Vocabulary Book

The Stitch Vocabulary Book is my favorite all-rounder class. For one day, we can go through all of the different techniques I do on 9″ squares of fabric, document them on the back and bind them into a cloth book, there for your reference. It’s a taste of everything and a way to try out new techniques without shame, blame or lengthy projects.

I’m going to be teaching this class for the first time in a long time, May 3rd at Gems of the Prairie in Peoria, IL And I’ve decided to do a class workbook for it.

Gems of the Prairie Class

May 4 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Ellen Anne Eddy

St Paul Lutheran Church 1427 W Lake Avenue, Peoria, IL

In this process oriented workshop, you will create a stitch vocabulary sampler that includes all the free-motion embroidery techniques that you will bind into a cool booklet for reference. Some of the skill sets you will learn are : working with thick and thin threads, free-motion applique, bobbin work, cut-away applique, machine couching and beading and stippling. Ellen will supply all you need for class. You will need to bring your sewing machine, Fee TBD

So I’ll be documenting the book as I do by videos and posts. If you wish to try these things, I’d love to hear how they’ve worked out. Do understand that this is a work in process. I will fix spelling errors, and grammer booboos on my own. But if there’s something you don’t understand in the instructions, please let me know.

Book Intro

Most people know free motion just as stippling. Free motion offers us a whole other way to think about design, to express ourselves, to embellish, texturize, color, shade, outline, and applique. This book is a project but it’s not about projects. Instead, it’s a series of machine exercises, set to build your stitch vocabulary.

We’ll embroider 9” squares on stabilizer and bind them into a book for your reference. On the back side of each square, we can write down what we did and what we used. We’ll have a permanent record of how each of these stitches works for us.

Stay tuned for updates! Next week, Free Motion, Straight Stitch

Resources

recording lables

Patterns to Share

How to Use These Patterns

These are PDF pages from a booklet. They can be read and printed from any PDF Reader. You can print them and trace them with a stabilizer like Totally Stable, or printed with an ink jet printer on Stick-nWashaway. Both of those iron on the back of your piece. You work with them from the back.