The YCA Embroidery Club - created by Young Creative Awards 2018 winner Liss Cooke (Head Embroidery Designer at Mary Katrantzou) - gives you a week's worth of free downloadable embroidery templates, each accompanied by step-by-step demo videos.
The YCA Embroidery Club is a fun, creative project to provide a little bit of distraction from the world outside.
As Liss explains, “the templates are customisable and the videos are just a guide – so feel free to get creative and use whatever fabric you have to hand, colours you love and whatever materials you can get hold of.”
To take part in the YCA Embroidery Club you will need:
Additional items that may be useful:
Along with each video, there is a written step-by-step guide for each template, with more detail on embroidery/ embellishment techniques.
To help get you started, here are the basic things you will need to do before you begin with the embroidery:
The wonderful folks at The Bead Shop Nottingham are offering a 15% deal on embroidery materials for YCA Embroidery Club participants. Use the code YCEC2020 when you check out.
Additional suppliers:
https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk
https://raystitch.co.uk
https://www.josyrose.com
https://sequinworld.co.uk
https://www.simplysequins.co.uk
https://www.clothhouse.com
www.myfabrics.co.uk/beads-sequins
https://www.cassart.co.uk
We’d love to see your embroidery! Please share it on Instagram using #YCAEMBROIDERYCLUB