Creative Hand Stitch Workshop: Stitch a Modern Napkin

Creative stitch for samplers, napkins, or mending with Royal College of Art graduate Lisa Vaughan


Karina Thomas
Karina Thomas
5.0 (1)

3 hours

Class size 1 to 6 (public classes), 5 to 10
  £60 (PayPal Pay in 3 available)

This workshop is taught by Royal College of Art graduate Lisa Vaughan.
This relaxed and playful workshop introduces you to contemporary hand embroidery, focusing on decorative stitch techniques that can be used to embellish everyday textiles. Designed as a gentle mindful introduction to stitch, this class encourages slow making, experimentation and creative confidence.
Working with beautiful linens and cottons you’ll be guided through a selection of essential hand stitch techniques, including cross stitch, stem stitch, satin stitch, couching, fly and running stitch. Through guided practise and creative play you’ll learn how to combine stitches, explore colour and develop your own decorative style.
With encouragement and support throughout the session you’ll design and embroider your own linen napkin, creating a final piece that’s both practical and personal. This workshop is suitable for anyone looking to reconnect with stitch in a calm welcoming environment.
This workshop takes place in Black Swans studio, formally the cow shed on Culverton farm, near the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire.
What you'll get
This workshop includes
Step by step guidance in five decorative hand stitch techniques.
Threads, fabric and a linen napkin.
Use of embroidery tools during the workshop.
Tea, coffee and homemade cake.
Knowledge required
Suitable for beginners
What to bring
Napkins if they wish to embroider on them, any other items for stitching onto if desired, examples of their embroidery (if any)
Suitable for

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 12 years old).

An adult must accompany any attending kids (the adult may observe for free).

This experience would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum or gift for couples.

Location

Black Swans Studio, Culverton Farm, Wycombe Road, Princes Risborough, Bucks HP27 0EU

The studio is a 10 minute walk from Princes Risborough station. There is parking on site.

Your teacher can also travel within 40 miles of Princes Risborough, to a venue of your choice for a private class.

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Karina Thomas
Karina Thomas

5.0 (1)
female Women-owned

Black Swans Studio is a multi discipline art and design studio set in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Created by Karina Thomas and Lisa Vaughan, who met whilst studying textiles at The Royal College of Art, to share teaching skills and experience from their design backgrounds. Come and join the workshops here and enjoy this inspiring design space; a place of learning and retreat. Monthly classes are presently run in stitch and weave with other workshops planned from guest designers to offer a creative mix of craft and design courses. Our studio is based in the cow shed, one of a series of converted farm buildings at Culverton Farm.
This area of Buckinghamshire has historically been linked to the crafts industry. Wood turners, bodgers and furniture makers, lace and needle makers. As you travel around the hills and valleys of the county, wardrobe lane and needle makers house are evidence of this past craft lineage. Our workshops reflect this rich cultural history and aim to keep people connected to these skillfull craft traditions.

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