Location: This course is delivered via Zoom & WhatsApp. Please click here for guides to using Zoom & WhatsApp

Duration: 6 Week Embroidery Course (1 x 2.5 hour session per week for 6 consecutive weeks) 

Over this six-week online course, you’ll learn how to create your own personalised family crest, combining fabric appliqué, goldwork and thread work techniques to create a unique embroidered design.

You’ll begin by choosing from a range of motifs and symbols, selecting elements that have a personal connection to you. You can also choose letters or initials to incorporate into your design, allowing you to create a crest that reflects your own family, interests or story. Throughout the course, you’ll explore a variety of techniques including fabric appliqué, goldwork and decorative thread work. With a wide selection of coloured fabrics, threads and embellishment materials available in your kit, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experiment with colour, texture and detail to make your piece your own.

By the end of the six weeks, you’ll have created a fully personalised embroidered family crest, combining traditional techniques with your own choice of motifs, colours and lettering to create a unique piece of decorative embroidery.

Important Course Information

- Please check that your email address and shipping address are correct before ordering.

- Read all of the course description information above and the “How the Course Works” information below before booking.

- All courses are non-refundable. If you cannot attend, please let us know as soon as possible and we will try to move you to another course.

- A recording of each course session will be sent to you within one week of the session. You will then be able to download and keep this.

If you have any questions, please check our FAQs page here.

Taught Techniques 

• Fabric applique

• Essing

• Soft string padding

• Felt padding

• Applying Pearl Purl

• Silk shading 

• Satin stitch

• Stem stitch 

• Goldwork knots

• French knots

• Contemporary bullion work

• Goldwork chipping 

• Goldwork loops 

• Goldwork cutwork

What You’ll Need to Provide 

- All materials will be sent to you - Course kit materials may vary slightly from those shown in sample imagery, however all alternatives are chosen to closely reflect the intended techniques and final results. 

- Tools needed: 10 inch seat frame (or an equivalent embroidery or slate frame), embroidery scissors