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Alison Holt was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. She completed a Foundation Course at Alison Holt is the author of three books on machined embroidery (also available from Amazon.com): Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Flowers, by Alison Holt (Search Press, 2006) Flowers and Plants in Machine Embroidery, by Alison Holt (Search Press, 1998) and Machine Embroidered Landscapes&by Alison Holt (B.T. Batsford, 1990)
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In this 3+ Hour Workshop DVD from Studio Galli, Master Embroiderer Alison Holt demonstrates her most requested techniques for producing flowers, foliage, and landscapes -- equally effective on plain and hand-painted fabrics.
Working with just Straight Stitch and Zigzag Stitches, Alison shows how to achieve artistic results with a basic sewing machine.
She then goes on to develop depth and contrast in her work by incorporating painted backgrounds. Finally, Alison brings all of her teaching skills together to achieve a wonderful landscape, Penylan Lane (cover image), incorporating a variety of stitch techniques, silk painting, and developing a palette of thread colors for highlights and shadows.
A wonderful workshop for those who want to learn how to paint with stitches -- a must-have companion to Alison's wonderful books in print!
CHAPTER LIST
Part 1: Getting Started
- What You Will Need
- Adapting the Sewing Machine
- Stretching Fabric in the Hoop
- Basic Stitch Techniques
Part 2: Stitching Techniques for Flowers & Foliage
- Straight Stitch: Astilbes, Alliums, Delphiniums, Foxgloves, Roses & Poppies
- Zigzag Stitch: Delphiniums, Achillea & Cow Parsley, Daisies, Iris & Foliage
Part 3: Silk Painting - Creating Depth & Contrast
- Stretching Silk on a Frame
- Painting a Background for Foxgloves
- Painting a Background for Poppies
- Embroidering the Foxgloves
- Embroidering the Poppies
Part 4: Creating an Embroidered Landscape
- Transferring the Design onto Silk
- Painting the Background
- Selecting the Threads
- Starting the Embroidery
- Presenting Your Finished Work
Working with just Straight Stitch and Zigzag Stitches, Alison shows how to achieve artistic results with a basic sewing machine.
She then goes on to develop depth and contrast in her work by incorporating painted backgrounds. Finally, Alison brings all of her teaching skills together to achieve a wonderful landscape, Penylan Lane (cover image), incorporating a variety of stitch techniques, silk painting, and developing a palette of thread colors for highlights and shadows.
A wonderful workshop for those who want to learn how to paint with stitches -- a must-have companion to Alison's wonderful books in print!
CHAPTER LIST
Part 1: Getting Started
- What You Will Need
- Adapting the Sewing Machine
- Stretching Fabric in the Hoop
- Basic Stitch Techniques
Part 2: Stitching Techniques for Flowers & Foliage
- Straight Stitch: Astilbes, Alliums, Delphiniums, Foxgloves, Roses & Poppies
- Zigzag Stitch: Delphiniums, Achillea & Cow Parsley, Daisies, Iris & Foliage
Part 3: Silk Painting - Creating Depth & Contrast
- Stretching Silk on a Frame
- Painting a Background for Foxgloves
- Painting a Background for Poppies
- Embroidering the Foxgloves
- Embroidering the Poppies
Part 4: Creating an Embroidered Landscape
- Transferring the Design onto Silk
- Painting the Background
- Selecting the Threads
- Starting the Embroidery
- Presenting Your Finished Work
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I've been interested in machine embroidery for many years with landscapes being of particular interest. In this video, Alison Holt shows you step-by-step and in detail how she goes about creating her landscapes. From choosing materials, mapping out your idea, painting the background, and creating the big picture as well as the details, she shares her complete methodology.
Maybe the hardest part of getting started is to design the work. Alison discusses how she does it and gives a step by step example, discussing her thoughts and design choices as she goes so that you can learn how and why choices are made. She then follows through creating that same design in the rest of the video, along the way, discussing design choices.
I have few criticisms of this instructional DVD. One is that she uses an unfamiliar description for the weight of silk she prefers to use as her background. I have been unable to find it as described though there is no shortage of silks available. The second is the little grimace-like smile at the end of each segment that should have been cut out or at least brought to her attention during production so that she could stop doing it. My other criticism is that I would have liked to have had a gallery of her other work to view and maybe a list of materials to print out.
One thing I like about it is that the setting is pleasant but not distracting, enabling one to concentrate on watching what she is doing. She gives excellent demonstrations of each part of every technique and the camera work catches it brilliantly.
In short, if you want to learn to make your own landscapes with a sewing machine, buy this video, you won't go wrong.
Maybe the hardest part of getting started is to design the work. Alison discusses how she does it and gives a step by step example, discussing her thoughts and design choices as she goes so that you can learn how and why choices are made. She then follows through creating that same design in the rest of the video, along the way, discussing design choices.
I have few criticisms of this instructional DVD. One is that she uses an unfamiliar description for the weight of silk she prefers to use as her background. I have been unable to find it as described though there is no shortage of silks available. The second is the little grimace-like smile at the end of each segment that should have been cut out or at least brought to her attention during production so that she could stop doing it. My other criticism is that I would have liked to have had a gallery of her other work to view and maybe a list of materials to print out.
One thing I like about it is that the setting is pleasant but not distracting, enabling one to concentrate on watching what she is doing. She gives excellent demonstrations of each part of every technique and the camera work catches it brilliantly.
In short, if you want to learn to make your own landscapes with a sewing machine, buy this video, you won't go wrong.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
I bought this DVD recently and I love it. I have not found anything like this in DVD before because Ms. Holt teaches you how to do machine embroidery only using any zig-zag sewing machine! She is also a great teacher not leaving you to wonder how something is done She explains her self very clearly and when you are first learning this is very important. I love Alison Holt and I hope she makes more DVDs because I will buy them.
Thanks Ms Holt!
Thanks Ms Holt!
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This is proving to be a great resource. Alison's directions are clear and easy to follow. It will be a DVD that I will revisit many times. Each segment explains a different technique. The segments build on each other but can be viewed separately. This enables you to practise one more than another. The segments build until you end up creating a simple scene. Excellent!!
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I loved this DVD! Alison Holt is clever, down to earth and inspiratioal. I enjoyed watching Alison as she has a lot of ideas and shows how easy it is to sew and paint a beautiful... Read more
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I started doing freehand sewing machine embroidery about 25 years ago in my twenties, recovering from lung surgery. I have never garment sewn and never will. Read more
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