Embroidery adventuress Arlee Barr is offering an online course, Frankenstitch. She says,
There’s more to life than running stitch and lazy daisies–boot up your embroidery with lumps, bumps and nodules, learn how to straddle a valley, use variations of buttonhole in dimensional and highly textural design elements, add darts, pinches and domes for bas relief effects. Lift your textile art to new heights!
Classes will be on a private blog, open to posting by students, with access to PDF and videos. Work at your own pace, ask questions and develop your stitch repertoire…
You’ll have to forget some of the rules about embroidery we’ve all strained to achieve when first learning: even stitches, perfectly aligned fabrics and untwisted threads, none of them are welcome in this spontaneous, intuitive and eccentric style!
Registration is open now; the course begins October 3. Go to Arlee’s blog post for registration details.
Ed. note: Arlee Barr neither requested nor compensated this post.
I would love to register for Arlee Barr’s course, but I don’t have access to her website. I submitted by name for approval but haven’t gotten it. Is there another way to contact her. Truly am kind of desperate to take this class!!
This is actually to the person above (awamom) who posted in 2017–i never received any notification from you that you be added to a class that was run in 2011 🙂 If you clicked on the link supplied above, the date was clear on the post, and i see nowhere that i was contacted. Sorry about this, but classes haven’t run since 2012.