Description
This is a 4-lesson prerecorded online workshop.
If your guild or group would like to do this online workshop, click here to read about how to organise such an event.
Featured in Hazel’s book, Crewel Birds, this proud fellow is filled with interesting stitches and techniques which are useful for, not only this project but also, have the potential to inspire you in your own embroidery.
Because of publishing contracts, participants will be required to own a copy of the Crewel Animal Portraits book to access the written instructions. If you do not own the book, it can be ordered from this site by choosing it in the dropdown menu marked ‘kit type’.
The workshop will cover all of the stitches and techniques needed to complete the project as under:
Embroidery Stitches
Buttonhole circles and flowers
Buttonhole stitch – layered
Chain stitch backstitch combination
Couching
Detached chain variations
double detached chain stitch
Eye stitch
Fly stitch
French knots Backstitch – whipped
Interlaced chain stitch & variations
Knotted cable chain stitch
Long and short stitch shading
Loop stitch
Outline stitch
Raised chain stitch – woven
Reverse chain stitch
Satin stitch – padded
Sheaf stitch
Single weaving filler
Split backstitch
Trellis couching – basic, diagonal
Trellis couching – woven
Trellis couching –cross stitch filler
Trellis with cross stitch couching
Up and down buttonhole stitch (double)
Chicken wire couching
Bead Embroidery Techniques
Attaching a single bead
Beaded backstitch
Beaded fly stitch
Beaded wheatear stitch
Caged flat back crystal
Needle Lace Embroidery
Beaded and woven Filler stitch 1
Needle Weaving Techniques
Texture no. 5 – double woven
Checks & Stripes no. 13
Basic double weaving
Texture no. 2
Measuring 310 x 280 mm, the project is worked on a natural-coloured linen cotton blend fabric using DMC and Finca cotton threads, Madeira metallic threads and Miyuki beads and Preciosa crystals. The original of this project has been quilted with batting and participants have the option of doing the same.
The project kit includes everything needed to complete the project as under:
Print on natural coloured linen cotton blend fabric, backed with voile and ready to stitch
Batting pack
Threads
- 39 skeins DMC stranded cotton – solid colours
- 1 skein DMC stranded cotton – Coloris
- 1 skein DMC satin thread
- 5 bobbins DMC perle #12 thread
- 3 bobbins Finca perle #12 thread
- 3 bobbins DMC Dentelles #80 thread
- 2 bobbins Madeira Glamour #12 thread
Beads and Crystals
- 5 packs Miyuki seed beads
- 1 pack Preciosa flat back crystals
Needle Pack
A teaching pack is included
Approximate pricing in popular currencies:
| US$ | CA$ | AU$ | GB₤ | NZ$ | Euro |
| 140.00 | 188.00 | 212.00 | 110.00 | 230.00 | 128.00 |
These prices do not include shipping.