Crewel Work Company – The Jacobean Starflower

Taught by Harriet Roberts, Oxford Stitch, LLC

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Two-Day Crewel Work Class for the Jackson Stitchery Guild

Oxford, Mississippi, USA

Monday, March 11 & Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Two-Day Crewel Work Class - $350.00

(9:00 am – Noon & 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm)

This class is suitable both for the absolute beginner, and the more experienced stitcher. The class will be limited to 8 students.

Skills and stitches to be taught:

- Setting up a hoop

- Casting on & Casting off- Parking threads

- Laid & Couch Stitches

- Crewel Stem Stitch

- French Knots

- Satin Stitch

- Long & Short as for ‘soft shading’

- Coral Stitch

- Pistil Stitch

Materials Supplied:

- Screen printed ‘Z’ twist Jacobean Twill 14” x 12” (design 7’ x 5”)

- 11 skeins of Appleton’s 2-ply crewel embroidery wool

- Two Crewel Work Company needles: one gold-plated needle (single thread) & one nickel-plated (double thread)

- Instructions to complete the project

- The Crewel Work Company’s ‘Essential Guide to Crewel Work’

- Full-color picture of the stitched design

- All assembled and packaged as a workshop kit

Students will need to use a 10-inch, hands-free seat frame. These marvelous frames are available for purchase from the Crewel Work Company (www.crewelwork.com). Students will need to bring their own supplemental lighting and or magnification.

Tea, coffee, and snacks will be available during the class. Students will be on their own for lunch locally.

Conversations during the two days may include, but are not limited to:

- Blocking finished work

- Binding hoops – the how and the why

- Mounting finished work on foam core

- Finishing into a cushion with fringe (brush trim), a zipper, and velvet backing.

- Slate Frame 101

- Managing hanks of Appleton Wool

- Wool storage