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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 & 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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Hand Embroidery Skill Stage 2 graduate pictured with one her own hand embroidery creations.

Hand Embroidery SS2

Judith Williams

For anymore who is passionate about hand embroidery and considering thinking about developing their skills or has an interest in hand embroidery and wishes to learn more, I thoroughly recommend enrolling with School of Stitched Textiles.
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Anne Galliot

“The design module gave me the opportunity to unleash my inner artist! In the next two modules, my confidence shot up as I trusted by creative process more and applied it to new techniques, tried out new things, and let my creativity blossom. Before I completed the course, I would never in a million years have imagined that I would be able to create a piece such as the one I submitted for the final assessment. I am so proud of my achievements!”
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Beginner Hand Embroidery course graduate, Kirsten Shearer with her stitch sampler.

Hand Embroidery SS2

Kirsten Shearer

“The course has allowed me to be just as expressive and personal through this medium as any other. I learned new types and techniques of embroidery which I’d never even heard of, which will definitely inform future pieces of my work. Mostly though it has helped me develop a regular practice of work at home and how to be disciplined with my time.”
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Bronagh Sullivan with her beautiful hand embroidery work

Hand Embroidery SS2

Bronagh Sullivan

“These courses are something I would definitely recommend to anyone with an interest in hand embroidery, whether it is for personal enjoyment or as a stepping stone to a new career, and because high standards of work are set, it’s a huge sense of achievement when you pass.”
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Hand Embroidery SS2

Melanie Giddings

“I chose an accredited craft course so that I could see where my skill levels were. It would also give me the chance to move forwards and develop further in the future. Having a qualification made me feel that I was good enough. I would certainly recommend this course. The tutors are fantastic. They are patient and their feedback is so helpful. If anyone is looking at starting the course just go for it – you won’t regret it.”
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Hilary Jackson, hand embroidery graduate

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Hilary Jackson

“An accredited course provided me with a focus for completing work to a certain standard within a time frame and a great feeling of achievement at the end of the course.”
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Hand Embroidery SS2

Lis Stewart

“I loved the course. My favourite thing about it was that before I started the course, I thought I knew quite a lot. However, I quickly realised that I didn’t really know anything about stitching at all! There was just so much to learn. However, it was fun and I loved learning new stitches and techniques.”
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Carol Crichton hand Embroidery Skill Stage 2 Graduate

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Carol Crichton

“The course has taught me so many things. It has changed the way I view the world around me. Now everything is a source of inspiration. I’ve definitely been pushed out of my comfort zone to be more experimental and think in a more abstract way.”
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