WHAT IS AN INTERMEDIATE COURSE?
2012 Courses

An Intermediate course is a series of classes designed to move you beyond the beginner stage. It develops your skills in a particular technique, as well as your confidence in general. Different techniques are offered from year to year.

Each course runs for six sessions. You’ll learn much more about the particular technique, complete some samplers, and produce at least one finished item. There will be homework after each session, and at the end you’ll hand in a small folder of notes and your finished work for assessment.

Tutors often start with the absolute basics, but it is helpful to have completed “Basic Stitches” or its equivalent.

If you successfully complete three Intermediate courses within five years, and take part in the Intermediate Final Display, you will receive your Intermediate Certificate. Or you can simply take individual subjects from time to time.

Many members find these courses so valuable that they complete many more than three courses, learning a wide variety of techniques.

COURSES IN 2012
at Embroidery House:
                            
Idea to Stitch: Wanda McPherson
Schwalm Embroidery: Rosemary Tonkin
Canvas Work: Shelagh Amor
Machine Embroidery: Margaret Mueller
Beading: Jill Dickson
Blackwork: Rosemary Tonkin

Cost: $250.00 for members.
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Idea to Stitch: Wanda McPherson
Dates: Mondays February 6, 13, 20. March 5, 19, 26.
Assessment day: Monday April 30.
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

Would you like to design and stitch your own original work in your preferred techniques, but don't know how or where to start? This course provides some simple and certain techniques to assist you to turn your ideas into stitched pieces. Learn simple design, how to work within the limits a brief, how to transform a photo into an embroidery, how to create backgrounds, and more. This course suits everyone, fron the most nervous novice to more adventurous souls. A wonderful confidence booster, plus an invaluable course if you're considering an Art and Design course later on.


Schwalm Embroidery: Rosemary Tonkin
Dates: Saturdays March 17 ,24. April 14,28. May 5, 19.
Assessment day: July 14.
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

Schwalm embroidery is a traditional form of whitework from a particular region of Germany. It is a counted thread technique incorporating surface stitches, pulled thread and drawn thread stitches, using a number of traditional motifs.

 

Beading: Jill Dickson
Dates: Sundays April 22, 29. May 6, 27. June 3, 24.
Assessment day: July 29.
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

Students will learn a variety of beading stitches and techniques, including peyote stitch, brick stitch, Ndebele (herringbone stitch, netting, bead embroidery and loom weaving. As well, you will work with a variety of bead types and sizes.

Canvaswork: Shelagh Amor
Dates: Sundays July 1, 15. August 5, 12, 26. October 7.
Assessment day: November 11.
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

'Canvaswork', 'needlepoint', 'tapestry' - whatever you call it, it's a counted thread technique using soft cotton open-weave canvas as its base. The traditional thread used is wool, but these days many other threads are used as well. The number of stitches and patterns that canvaswork can create is almost endless, and the great variety of textures that canvaswork stitches create adds a richness that few other stitching techniques can match;

Machine Embroidery: Margaret Mueller
Dates: Saturdays July 7. August 11, 18. September 1.
October 13, 27.
Assessment day: November 24
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

You DO NOT need a special sewing machine! If your sewing machine machine is 40 years old and can manage straight stitch and zigzag, then that's all that's needed. Plus an embroidery/darning foot (buy this from your local sewing machine shop).

Your sewing machine becomes your paintbrush. Add fabric, a few other simple products, and learn techniques that create endless ways to stitch beautiful and individual works of art.

Blackwork: Rosemary Tonkin
Dates: Saturdays October 6, 13, 27. November 10, 17. December 1.
Assesssment day: February 2013 (date TBA).
Price: $250.00
Time: 10.30am - 2.30pm

Blackwork is a simple counted thread technique that creates (apparently) complex lacy designs. It is traditionally stitched with black thread on a white fabric, though modern 'blackwork' has incorporated new colours and threads, and uses blackwork patterns to create pictures and portraits with complex shadings. If you can count to 2, then you can learn this technique and all its wonderful variations.


Embroidery House , 170 Wattletree Road, Malvern 3144.
(Tram no. 5, Stop 46)

ALL MAIL: PO Box 508, Malvern, Vic. 3144.

telephone: (03) 9509 2222
fax: (03) 9509 2109
email: embgv@bigpond.net.au

Hours: weekdays 10.00am to 3.00pm; weekends 10.00am to 1.00pm.

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