Last week I was super fortunate to be able to teach an Embroidery Hoop Art class at Snap Conference in Salt Lake City! I was of course, crazy nervous. But I ended up having so much fun!
Our class started off with some basic practice stitches and talking about the different types of embroidery threads and cottons. It was so great to hear gals say that they’d never been able to do a French Knot – and get all excited when they accomplished it!
For our project – everyone made this Heart and Home Embroidery Hoop Art. I brought a bunch of different fabrics and hearts, so people could choose the fabrics that matched their style best. I loved this combo of turquoise and green though – it has such a retro feel to it, don’t you think?
This is a great beginner piece. It uses just a few stitches and you can really have fun with the background and heart fabrics. You can also add some stitching around the heart – that adds something a little extra.
I used DMC Pearl Cotton for the stitching. DMC was also so generous and provided all the threads for the class, as well as some fun supplies that we were able to use for giveaways in class!
I’m offering the Heart and Home Embroidery as a free pattern to you too! You can download it here:
Heart and Home Embroidery Hoop Art
You can find stitching instructions on the Embroidery Tips page!
Here’s a look at some of the hoops in progress during the class. It was so fun to see them come together!
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Wow, Bev! That is cute!
I’m so glad you had fun at Snap! And this embroidery is so cute; pinning this to try later! :)
This was such an awesome class! I’ve got a Craft Gossip post scheduled for later today that features your Heart and Home pattern:http://sewing.craftgossip.com/?p=87546 –Anne
Anne!! You’re the best. :) Thank you so much!!!
I followed your blog for quite awhile last year and then things got overloaded in life with projects in the house and Christmas plus Birthdays and so forth and I had to reduce my followings to just a bare few. I saw your project on Bloglovin and new it was time to follow again. Projects such as this are so much fun and make wonderful gifts. Thank you for sharing the tutorial with us and I look forward to discovering what all I have missed!! Have a fantastic creative day!
Thanks for the class Bev! If it makes you feel any better, you didn’t seem nervous, and you were certainly among friends! I finally unpacked last night (I’m such a procrastinator) and will be using my embroidery project as a way to take some short needed breaks from homework today :)
Another beauty! I need a personalised gift idea for a couple of weddings this summer, this has made me think a hoop might be the way to go, I’m off to check out all your lovely ideas (I know you have what seems like an endless supply of pretty ideas) and see what will work best for the couples. Thanks
Great post!
I love hoop art! This is adorable! I am going to add it to my list of things to make!
– Jaclyn
This is so lovely! I love the mix of fabric patterns as well as the embroidery. Thanks for sharing this creative piece with us on #shinebloghop, Bev! We’re so happy to have you this week :)
This is so cute! My daughter has really been into embroidery lately, she would love this!
Super cute and simple. Love it!
This makes me SO happy!!! I love seeing this art not being lost and USED! Its so beautiful and turned out adorable!!! Great work!!!
This is super cute! I love the idea and it turned out great! Thanks for linking this post up for the Best of the Blogosphere Linky Party!
How sweet!! I will get over my fear of embroidery for this one!
What a cute project! I can imagine this would be a fun starter project for a little one! Thanks for bringing this by Throwback Thursday last week – Sorry I didn’t get a chance to comment earlier!!
Mollie
Hi Bev! Love this embroidery project, I am wanting to make this for a gift this week! Can you please tell me what size of embroidery hoop you used? Thanks!!
Thanks Megan! I used a 7″ hoop for this one.