Thread painting is a unique skill to embellish your quilts by “painting” the images on your quilt top, clothing or wherever your imagination may lead you. The quilt top represents your canvas, while the thread is your paint.
What Is The Aim Of The Course?
In this “Master Class On Architectural Thread Painting” you will discover how to use painting skills to add more depth and realism to your hand embroidery designs. This course will empower you to become a master at utilising the fundamentals of painting with needle and thread. Not only will you be able to add visual effects, but you will also be able to enhance the impression with textures and touchable movements within the artwork.
In this course you will be provided with the Placa Reial design where you will learn the how and why for each decision in the stitching process. By the end of this course you will understand the principles of light, depth and perspective and how to apply these characteristics to your hand embroidery designs.
Thread Painting Example

Course Content

Your Instructor

Elin Petronella
Elin is passionate to create with her hands and this is what drew her to the capital of France. She began to share her embroidery journey on Instagram in 2016. Her work got a lot of traction very quickly which allowed her to dive full-time into the world of artistry.
Elin has since, together with her husband Charles, hosted embroidery courses all over Europe. Since the beginning of 2018 they have released their first online course enrolling hundreds of students from all over the world.
Nice it really cool wish to sponsor this
Thank you so much for your very kind words. Glad you like what we have to offer. In terms of wishing to sponsor. This sounds very generous indeed. You are most welcome to do so via Paypal should you wish. The Paypal email in question is info@embird.co.uk Many thanks for your generous offer.
Hey thanks for the post! How long do you think it would take for someone to get good at hand embroidery? Like good enough to sell?
I guess it depends on how much time you are willing to put into the process. I think hand embroidery might be much more challenging and it might take quite a while to master this skill to be good enough in order to produce very good quality in order to sell. However, machine embroidery requires less skill as e.g. our Embird embroidery software which is a computerised solution makes embroidery very simple indeed.
Embroidery machines are so sophisticated and fully programmable today that it creates amazing embroidery designs pretty much on autopilot. All you need is to be able to create awesome embroidery designs on the computer using our embroidery software, save it to a memory stick and then pop it inside your modern embroidery machine. All you then need to do, is to put the correct colour threads and press a button and the machine will do the embroidery for you on autopilot from start to finish.
You may now say that you do not have very good computer skills. Well, you can buy many good quality embroidery designs which has already been created for you and you can then simply pop your memory stick with the already done embroidery design into your embroidery machine. If you search hard enough there are also a lot of free quality designs available online. You can also pay to have your own unique custom embroidery designs created for you.
So in short, there are ways to work around the fact that you may not have the necessary skills and still be able to generate income through embroidery quite quickly through the utilisation of embroidery software and a modern embroidery machine.
Hi, looks really professional and intriguing.
By the way I also really like the logo of your site.
Many thanks for your very kind words, Michael. It is certainly welcomed and much appreciated!
Amazing embroidery! My stitches are quite rather umm … shall we say, in need of improvement. The price of the course seems very reasonable; it’s just beyond my budget for the time being. The course would pay for itself in a matter of weeks or months if someone wanted to sell their work. Thanks for sharing!
Cathy, many thanks for your very kind words. In regards to the course content, I would just like to make you aware that I do have a free course on offer in regards to hand embroidery. The hand embroidery course is called: Going Knots! The course can be accessed here: https://embird.co.uk/hand-embroidery-free-course-going-knots/ The course includes step by step video instruction. I am sure you will thoroughly enjoy this free hand embroidery course on offer.