Hand Embroidery

Skill Stage 2

Course Overview

Accredited Beginner's Hand Embroidery Course

Explore and learn a variety of Hand Embroidery techniques with our Skill Stage 2 online Hand Embroidery course. Throughout this in-depth distance learning course you’ll get the chance to learn all of the basic Hand Embroidery techniques and stitches, enabling you to design and create pieces to a high standard while developing your personal style and creativity.

As a City and Guilds accredited course, each module focuses on developing your existing skills, whilst also introducing you to creative new techniques, which will carefully lead you through your course syllabus to a successful conclusion. Our accredited courses are recognised for their high standards of teaching and assessment.

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Course Features

4 Modules

Work your way through key tasks for contribute towards completion of your modules

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Beginner Skill level

You don't need to know how to Hand Embroider! This will be covered, making it perfect for beginners

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 1 year to complete this course. Each modules takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Course Details

This is a distance learning Hand Embroidery course which can be studied from anywhere in the world. You will learn by working your way through our online course materials, including video content, with full support from our dedicated expert tutors. Hand Embroidery is a delicate and highly creative craft and our course will give you the ability and confidence to create your own designs and finished pieces.

This course has been specifically developed to individual creativity. Whether you’re looking to learn the basics or develop existing skills, our courses allow you to express yourself, experiment and really push your own creative boundaries.

Course Modules

There are around 100-150 hours of course content split across 4 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

Research a chosen artist
Introduction to embroidery stitches: Line, isolated and textured stitches
Develop your own portfolio of your own experiments and designs
Experiment with ideas and images
Explore different principles of line, colour and texture
Counted embroidery basics: Blackwork, drawn thread, hardanger, counted cross stitch
Create your own sample folio containing traditional and contemporary techniques and embroidery samples
Edging and finishing techniques to add a professional looking finishing to your pieces
Complete a final assessment piece. Choose from wither a 3D functional item, a panel/hanging/quilt or a wearable art item.

Delivery & Assessment

The course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 100-150 hours of course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 1 year to complete the course, which allows students to work at their own pace. However, it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, if needed, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation, which would therefore extend the course life to 18 months (1.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

Our Skill Stage 2 accredited courses are aimed at beginners. If you’ve only ever made a few projects by following patterns or perhaps you’ve only just found an interest in your new hobby, then we’d recommend that you study a Skill Stage 2 course. At this level our hand embroidery courses have been carefully designed to not only teach new techniques, but also introduce students to conducting research into artists or designers, and eventually learn how to create their own designs.

If you have already undertaken a few of the embroidery basics, but rarely read around your subject or have limited experience of attending courses or exhibitions then a Skills Stage 2 course is probably going to be your best bet.

A Skills Stage 2 course will introduce you to the pleasures of immersing yourself in your chosen craft. Not only does this help you to develop your own style but it’s also an important way of discovering new trends and exploring favourite artists.

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