Print and Stitch for Beginners - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

Beeston Library, Beeston

Date	4 June - 9 July 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 1:15pm - 3:45pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Beeston Library, Beeston View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £52.50

About this course

Print and Stitch is an ideal course for those who are new to printmaking and embroidery. Or for those with some experience but who want to learn how these two disciplines can be combined. During the course you will learn how to use the lino and collagraph printing processes as the starting point for creating imagery on fabric using pattern, colour and texture, you will then embellish the prints with simple embroidery stitches to add detail.

You will learn and explore how both print and stitch techniques are developed by looking at and discussing other artists’ and embroiderers’ work and by demonstrations, personal experimentation and individual tuition on how to cut and print your lino, how to make and print your collagraph plate and how to use a range of simple stitches creatively to enhance your image.

By the end of the course everyone will have produced good quality work combining both print and stitch to mount and exhibit or to give as gifts.

By the end of the course, you will:

Be able to discuss how other artists and embroiderers have created their work.
Using drawing/tracing to create an initial design based on drawings or photographs.
Using textured papers and thread and scribed (scratched) lines to create a collagraph plate.
Use markmaking and contrast to produce a lino block.
Become familiar with the printmaking and embroidery equipment and learn the correct terminology.
Mix and use water soluble inks to print collagraph plates and lino blocks onto a range of fabrics using effective colourways.
Use stitch creatively to embellish prints.

Resources required:

Apron or big shirt
B and 2B Pencil, rubber (WH Smiths) Amazon
A4 cartridge paper pad (Wilko, WH Smiths, The Range, HobbyCraft, Amazon)
A4 tracing paper (Wilko, WH Smiths, The Range, Amazon)
A3 piece of Mountboard (Hobbycraft, The range, Amazon)
A4 pieces of white cotton (John Lewis, Hobbycraft, Sharmas -Ilkeston)
A4 pieces of calico (John Lewis, Hobbycraft, Sharmas -Ilkeston)
Embroidery needles (Hobby craft, Amazon)
Small embroidery hoop (Hobbycraft, Amazon)
Range of embroidery silks (John Lewis, Hobbycraft, Amazon) Apron or big shirt
A5 Easy Cut Lino (blue and originally from specialist crafts)(sold by different suppliers online)
Pack of disposable Gloves- vinyl or nitrile (B&M Bargains, DIY stores, Amazon).

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: