Turn off the TV and pick up your embroidery hoop.
Our response to stress is something we CAN choose. If you’ve been looking for a habit to replace those unhelpful ones, take a look at one that uses your hands to soothe the brain.
In this workshop, Rebecca Ringquist starts with the very basics of embroidery – setting up a hoop and threading needles – and dives into a visual encyclopedia of the most common stitches. Rebecca teaches straight stitches before moving onto decorative and knotted stitches, including the elusive French knot. Along the way, she offers tips for smooth embroidery and examples from her stitched artwork as inspiration.
Embroidery Sampler with Rebecca Ringquist on Creativebug from Creativebug on Vimeo.
Rebecca Ringquist is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and designer. Her stitched drawings on fabric explore issues of identity through thinly veiled metaphors utilizing old fashioned imagery and double entendres. She learned how to embroider in college in a feminist art history class, and has been inspired by the history of American needlework ever since. Approaching the technique of embroidery as a way of drawing, Ringquist has taught hundreds of people new ways of making marks on fabric through classes and workshops around the country.
Her design company, Dropcloth, sells Ringquist’s hand drawn designs that are printed as embroidery patterns, all ready to hoop and sew.
Embroidery Workshops with Rebecca Ringquist on Creativebug from Creativebug on Vimeo.
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