Embroidery Tips and Techniques

Embroidery Tips and Techniques

It is always helpful to pick up Tips and Techniques. In this Collection of videos, we focus on select Tips and Techniques from Britain's finest tutors. These videos are shorter than our full-length workshop videos because they focus in on a select Tip and Technique.

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Embroidery Tips and Techniques
  • Wrapping Beads with Kelley Aldridge

    Use beads in your embroidery
    You can simple create Christmas with beads that you may have.
    Kelley is a graduate of the Royal School of Needlework and now heads up the Royal School of Needlework Bristol division. For more information you can click here.
    Artists Statement from Kelley Aldridge
    My wo...

  • More Going Crazy with Angela Daymond and Paula Doyle

    Angela and Paula continue to share with us their varied approach to producing this classic favourite.  Both enjoy using different threads and stitches. Angela explains (and shows) how the different thicknesses of thread make a difference. You can use  some of these on the sewing machine, others m...

  • Turkey Work Embroidery Stitch with Lorna Bateman

    Lorna’s book, Embroidered Country Garden, is available in the justhands-on.tv shop. It has many wonderful ideas and patterns to inspire you to create beautiful hand-stitched floral designs inspired by nature.
    In this video, Lorna demonstrates the turkey work stitch, or tufting, which creates a de...

  • Drizzle Stitch with Lorna Bateman

    Lorna loves to create texture in her designs. This workshop shows how to do the drizzle stitch.

    Which she has used to have such a significant effect on her little pincushion and wallhanging with sheep.

    Click here to learn more about Lorna Bateman.
    Click here to watch a preview of this prem...

  • Thread Painting with Variable Zigzag

    A recurring theme in this video is “Just have a play…see where you go with it.”
    Thread painting with variable zigzag is like free motion embroidery with the machine doing the zigzagging for you.
    In this video, Jayne Brogan and Valerie Nesbitt show you how to use the variable zigzag function on yo...

  • Couching Goldwork with Kathleen Laurel-Sage

    Kathleen takes you through all the steps needed to create this lovely design.

    In this comprehensive workshop, Kathleen shows how to transfer your design onto your fabric and how to load this into your embroidery hoop correctly. She talks you through the order of sewing. A little like applique,...

  • How to Use an Embroidery Hoop Correctly with Niamh Wimperis

    Niamh explains why she likes to use two layers of fabric in the hoop, as it avoid puckering when doing the stitching and also allows for less 'peak through' when moving your embroidery threads from one section of the embroidery to another.

    An embroidery hoop has two sections and the top one ge...