Embroidery Design for Clothing

Adorn your clothing with your own embroidery designs! This class will introduce you to simple and inexpensive ways to stitch some beauty onto items you already have in your closet. I will guide you through creating a simple design, talk through color and placement choices, and help you get started stitching! I am self taught and hope to bring a spirit of experimentation, play, and permission to create. 

Please bring a few items of clothing that you could imagine adding a design to. Natural materials like cotton and linen are great, but not necessary. Something not too stretchy or too thick to get your needle through will work best. I will provide a variety of threads, hoops, and needles but if you have any of these items that you know you enjoy to use, please bring them. 

I will share some of my favorite products, artists who inspire me, and share some about my own exploration with embroidery. No prior experience necessary. Depending on how complex of a design you choose, you may leave with a fully embellished piece. If not I will send you on your way with all you will need to finish on your own.

Žiara is a queer artist, creative creature, nature lover, and budding ceremonialist. They enjoy learning about art mediums by experimenting and playing, and finding artists and art that inspire them to create. They live their life as an expression of beauty, by bringing ceremony and ritual into the mundane acts of the day. They are striving to remember their belonging with the natural world by listening to the ways the more-than -human world is always offering us lessons and showing us the ways of beauty, simplicity, and the cyclical nature of things. Žiara believes in creating a new culture from our most magical dreams of interdependent care, abundance, and mutual thriving. They are currently practicing building new world through their involvement in Future Ancestors Folk Choir, Wild Grief, Olympia mutual aid apothecary, Roots and Rhythms outdoor pre-school, and Earth Keepers Wisdom School : A Year in Ceremony.

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