Creating Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt

Now Available for Download! ----------------- In this 3 hour video workshop master embroiderer Alison Holt demonstrates her most requested techniques for producing flowers, foliage and landscapes -- equally effective on plain or hand-painted fabric backgrounds. Working with just Straight and Zigzag stitches, Alison shows how to achieve artistic results with a basic sewing machine. She then goes on to develop depth and contrast in her work by incorporating painted backgrounds. Finally, Alison brings all of her teaching skills together to achieve a wonderful landscape, ’Penylan Lane’, incorporating a variety of stitch techniques, silk painting, and developing a palette of thread colors for highlights and shadows. A wonderful workshop for those who want to learn how to paint with thread and stitches! Includes PDF notes with chapter list. Runtime: 198 minutes