Basic Embroidery Techniques: Stitches, Compositions, and Color Ranges
A course by Señorita LyloEmbroiderer and Graphic Designer
A course by Señorita Lylo, Embroiderer and Graphic Designer
Learn to narrate and interpret stories by combining graphic design, illustration, and embroidery
Artist, designer, embroiderer, and the cofounder of uauh! studio Loly Ghirardi (Señorita Lylo) offers her expert guidance on the basic embroidery techniques. Embroidery is a way of narrating as well as documenting drawings, typographies, and images. In this course, learn how to combine graphic design, illustration, and embroidery.
Señorita Lylo goes through the materials needed for the course and then teaches you both flat and raised stitches. Learn her tricks and the secrets to color schemes and use it all to design a shirt collar and embroider it with flowers, letters, or patterns.
If you want to improve your embroidery skills, in her new course Advanced Embroidery Techniques: Stitches and Compositions with Volume, Señorita Lylo invites you to go a step further and learn more advanced stitches to create compositions with volume that you can apply to any garments.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 9 downloads
Materials
7 minutes, 45 seconds
Flat Stitches 1
17 minutes, 16 seconds
Flat Stitches 2
10 minutes, 33 seconds
Relief Stitches 1
14 minutes, 50 seconds
Relief Stitches 2
15 minutes, 40 seconds
Application and Composition
16 minutes, 21 seconds
What's included in this course?
Start off by learning about Señorita Lylo's work and influences as well as looking at some reference material from the world of embroidery.
Then discover the different types of threads, fabrics, and materials used in this technique before learning the basic stitches used in embroidery, both flat and raised, such as the sand stitch, stem stitch, woven wheel stitch, and woven picot stitch.
Now you've got a handle on the basics, choose and design your own shirt collar, considering the variety of fabrics, the use of markers, and the most appropriate color palette.
Embroider a natural landscape with mountains, trees, leaves, and raindrops combining different stitches, symmetrical and asymmetrical embroidery, and small details that really help bring the piece to life.
To wrap up the course, Señorita Lylo tells you about some other applications for your embroidery such as pockets, slippers, hats, and coasters as well as the care needed when washing your embroidery.
What is this course's project?
Design and embroider your own shirt collar combining all the knowledge learned: stitches, thread types, and your chosen design.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Designers, illustrators, and graphic and fashion designers who want to learn to use embroidery to help interpret and document images; something more traditional and manual that requires patience but produces unique and amazing results.
Requirements and materials
You don't need prior knowledge for this course, but it is important to have patience, curiosity, creativity, and the desire to explore this world of needles and threads.
As for materials, you need second-hand shirts you can cut the collars off, colored threads of different thicknesses, a pointed and a round-tipped needle, a pin with a round head, an embroidery hoop, nonelastic fabric to practice beforehand, scissors, a threader, fabric markers, and images that you'd like to interpret in your embroidery.
Reviews
- 2 months ago
está bien para emepezar en bordado en relieve
- 2 months ago
Un molt bon curs, de no saber brodar a fer-ne ara, i passar-ho bé.
- 5 months ago
señorita lylo es lo mas buenisimo
- 5 months ago
eu amei demais! uma querida que me ensinou demais! obrigada
- 5 months ago
Muy completo
Armed with her hoops, threads, and needles, she creates unique pieces and experiments using different mediums. Each project starts with a conceptual search and each stitch is accompanied by an anecdote, personal story, or place she's visited. Over time, she got the opportunity to teach everything she knows about embroidery and it is a vocation that comforts her and continues to inspire her more and more every day.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- About Me
- Influences
- U2
Embroidery Materials and Techniques
- Materials
- Flat Stitches 1
- Flat Stitches 2
- Relief Stitches 1
- Relief Stitches 2
- Application and Composition
- U3
Embroidering the Collar
- Choosing and Designing the Collar
- Mountains First 1
- Mountains First 2
- Adding Trees and Leaves
- Embroidering Details to Complete the Landscape
- U4
Other Applications and Care
- Different Applications
- Washing and Care
- FP
Final project
- Basic Embroidery Techniques: Stitches, Compositions, and Color Ranges
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FAQs
You’ll learn illustrative embroidery techniques, flat and raised stitches, thread blending, and how to apply embroidery on various surfaces including textiles and paper. Projects include landscapes, shirt collars, and creative objects.
This course is aimed at those with intermediate embroidery skills, but it also covers basic and advanced techniques for anyone looking to refine and expand their abilities.
You’ll need mouliné, perlé, and metallic threads, embroidery and wool needles, an embroidery hoop, small scissors, fabric, a water-soluble marker, and bobbins for organizing threads. Having a variety of threads and fabrics is recommended for experimentation.
The course includes step-by-step tutorials on embroidering snowy landscapes, covering color selection, stitches like French knots and stem stitch, thread organization, and techniques to create depth and volume in your work.
You’ll learn raised stitches such as petal stitch, knot, rosette, weaving, and picot, plus magic needle techniques and thread tension variations to add texture and 3D effects to your embroidery.
The course teaches how to combine flat and raised stitches, adapting techniques and colors to create creative, original, and visually harmonious compositions on textiles and other surfaces.
Yes, you’ll learn how to select and prepare shirt collars, mark guidelines, and apply various embroidery stitches to personalize garments and refresh vintage pieces with modern touches.