Laura Wasilowski - Free-form hand embroidery
Laura Wasilowski - Free-form hand embroidery
Saturday, May 17, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Class Fee: $100 WMQFA Member (with member discount code) / $125 Non Member
Class Description:
Improvisational Hand Embroidery on Wool
Create a densely hand-embroidered vignette on wool. Wool fabric is easy on the hands and welcomes hand stitchery with colorful embroidery threads. You’ll learn a swift way to transfer an original design to the wool. Then learn how to use simple embroidery stitches to create lines and pattern along with various stitch combinations to make even more texture.
This project is designed by the student using a kit of colorful embroidery threads, needles, and solid-colored wool fabric. ($30 kit fee)
Kit Fee: $30, NOT included in class registration.
Please bring cash/check to pay teacher directly.
Kit includes:
Sketch paper
transfer paper
wool fabric
embroidery threads
embroidery needles
embroidery stitch handbook
SUPPLY LIST:
Pencil for sketching
Black fine point marker
Straight pins
Thimble (optional)
Scissors
Needle threader (optional)
About the Artist:
Laura Wasilowski is a textile artist and creator of hand-dyed fabrics and threads. Her pictorial art quilts and free-form embroideries are collected and exhibited internationally. Whimsical in nature, both textile art forms express her joy and love of creating art.
Owner of the dye shop, Artfabrik, Laura is also an instructor of online workshops and author of Fusing Fun, Fuse-and-Tell, Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts, Joyful Stitching: Transform Fabric with Improvisational Embroidery and Playful Free-Form Embroidery: Stitch Stories with Texture, Pattern, and Color.