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Canvaswork Embroidery RSN Certificate19 September 201819 September 2018

My RSN Certificate Canvaswork has been assessed

Last Thursday I received the results of the assessment of my Canvaswork which I had completed as part of the Royal School of Needlework Certificate course. I contrast to the Jacobean Crewelwork module, which I completed during term time, I completed this module during as a summer intensive course. I received 76 marks out of…

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Canvaswork Embroidery RSN Certificate22 July 201822 July 2018

RSN Summer Intensive Certificate course in Canvaswork

It seems odd to write a single blog post about something so big as the Royal School of Needlework Summer Intensive certificate course in Canvaswork I have attended for the past two weeks. However, as it really was a single event I didn’t want to split my experiences into several shorter posts. I hope you…

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Canvaswork Embroidery RSN Certificate1 July 20181 July 2018

Preparing for the RSN Certificate Summer Intensive course in Canvaswork

When I finished my Jacobean Crewelwork module in February, it felt like ages before the start of my next module but now it is only one week away! Even though it will be my 2nd module I am still quite scared about it all. Especially since I will be doing the Summer Intensive course, which…

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Canvaswork Crochet Embroidery General Jacobean Crewelwork Knitting RSN Certificate Shops1 January 20181 January 2018

A new year!

Happy New Year everyone! Following on from yesterday’s post looking back at the highlights of the Stitching Sheep’s first year, I thought it would be fitting to celebrate it’s anniversary today and look ahead at the things 2018 will hopefully have in store for the Stitching Sheep. I have actually started writing this post enjoying…

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Canvaswork Embroidery RSN Certificate Sewing23 July 201723 July 2017

A different kind of stitching

It has been an odd last few days. Everything has been about embroidery but without actually doing any embroidery at all. It has been more about sewing, organising and planning. As I have mentioned in previous blog posts I have decided to do the Royal School of Needlecraft certificate in technical hand embroidery course. I…

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Canvaswork Embroidery11 June 201711 June 2017

Having a go at Canvaswork

I had picked up this kit from the RSN Shop when I was at Hampton Court last month. I was mainly attracted to it because of the geometric design and the colour scheme which is based on a picture of the Wool Rack at the RSN. This picture is used by the RSN on a…

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After spending a couple of evenings putting in some tacking lines to help me stitch the pattern I was very excited to start the actual blackwork tonight. I chose this blackwork kit by @masakonewtonembroidery from the RSN shop because I really liked the pattern and the shading element of it and hopefully it will give me some practice of this embroidery technique before my RSN diploma blackwork module as I have never tried this technique before. I will also be mounting this project once I have finished it so I will be getting some mounting practice too!
Day 12 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️ All done and handed in! Had plenty of time to finish the mounting today, not rushing it and trying to do the best job possible. The corners were being a bit more difficult because of the padding but really happy with the end result. 🤞 for the assessment now. The two weeks flew by. I had a great time, learned a lot and can’t wait to come back in October for the Diploma! #rsncertificate
Day 11 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️ It is off the frame! After a bit of a morning having to take out the centre bit (again) and restitching it, but which does look so much better now, I was able to take it off the frame straight after lunch. Pinning on went really well (for a change) and I am halfway through herringboning it. #rsncertificate
Day 10 of the Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️ Stopped for today. Finished the cutwork and was tweaking the centre but, even though I was happy with the look of the rough purl, I wasn’t happy with how I had stitched it. After a 2nd opinion on what I should do to fix it, I restitched it twice. Much happier with the look now. There are still a few gaps but I will look at those tomorrow before class starts as I feel that I would do more damage than good if I continued working on it today. So I made the decision to step away from the frame and do some final tweaks tomorrow before I take it off and start mounting. #rsncertificate
Day 9 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️ Finished the overstretch pearl purl, redoing the twist and the rough purl chips in the centre of my design on this 3rd ‘work on your own day’. ‘Only’ have one line of cutwork still to do, but as I didn’t want to start (and ruin it) so late in the day I thought I would call it quits for today and start it bright and early tomorrow! #rsncertificate
Day 8 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️Had a really productive day today. Restitch one of the twist-areas (other one to do tomorrow), done 3/4 of the overstretched pearl purl outlines (other bit to do tomorrow) and I have done one of the cutwork areas. I will need to do the other one before the tutor is back in on Thursday and I also need to fill the centre of the design with chips. So hopefully I will manage to get that all done tomorrow and Wednesday during the ‘work on your days’ #rsncertificate
Day 7 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork. It was our 2nd ‘work on your own day’ today and as the school is closed on the Sunday you have to work somewhere else. As lighting in the AirBnB I am staying is not great and since I didn’t want to unstitch everything I had done today I decided to leave my frame at the school and use the day to make up all of the lengths of overstretched pearl purl with a core. Such a fiddly job! Glad I did that today so it is all ready for stitching on tomorrow. Hope that job is slightly less fiddly! #rsncertificate
Day 6 of the Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️Finished the 2 main areas of chipping, cut and covered my board and had and was taught how to make overstretched pearl purl with a core. I will make these up at ‘home’ tomorrow so I can stitch them on on Monday. I will also need to take out the twist as I can couch it differently and do a much better job so it will look much neater. So plenty to do next week! #rsncertificate
Day 5 of the RSN Summer Intensive Certificate Course in Goldwork ✔️ Done the pearl purl outlines and started on the chipping. Like with the rococo the paint lines still show next to the pearl purl but I am going to do 🤞 something really nice to cover them up. I think it might even be a huge blessing in disguise as I think it will improve the design so keep watching! Besides that I will be getting on with the chipping and then it will be on to cutwork on Monday! #rsncertificate

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