Cross-Stitch Portrait Creation

Learn how to draw, chart, and stitch your own handcrafted portrait from scratch

• Getting to Know Me!
• Getting Started
• Starting Your Final Project
• Colour and Stitch
• Finishing Ideas for Your Project
• Final project

Creating handmade decorations is a wonderful way of relaxing and expressing your ideas in an original format. Needlework designer Emily Peacock believes cross-stitching to be a haven for creativity, color, and relaxation. Her approach to teaching and creating needlework is to not follow rules, but rather show you how to come up with ideas and find your own creative path. Emily has played an important role in the resurgence of craft in the UK, and in this course, she shows you how to create modern and original cross-stitch portraits.

Discover the versatility of cross-stitch needlework with Emily’s step-by-step method to creating a colorful portrait. See how to draw your portrait, chart it, choose the right colors, and bring it to life with cross stitches. Learn three different ways of displaying your needlework creations: in a frame, for a pillow, or a piece of jewelry. Are you ready to reveal your cross-stitching abilities?

• Introduction
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Materials and Supplies
• Threads
• Fabrics
• Mastering a Cross Stitch
• Finding a Subject for Your Final Project
• Finding the Line
• The Scale of Your Final Project
• Creating a Chart
• Choosing Colours
• Preparing Your Fabric
• Starting to Stitch
• Removing and Blocking
• Preparing a Canvas for Framing
• Making a Pillow
• Making Jewelry with Smaller Pieces
• Cross-Stitch Portrait Creation