Introducing...

Exploring Texture and Pattern Online Textile Art Course
An online textile art course by TextileArtist.org

Discover the creative potential of simple textile techniques and develop your personal visual vocabulary

Textile artist Sue Stone

With a respected textile artist by your side every step of the way

And she's regularly invited to share her methods for creating texture and pattern in workshops with groups like The Embroiderers’ Guild and Selvedge. Workshops that often sell out within days of going on sale.

Not bad considering that she once spent the evening hiding behind corners at her first ever exhibition!

Since rediscovering her passion for textiles after a 30-year break, Sue Stone (Chair of the renowned 62 Group of Textile Artists) has spent the past ten years building and refining how she develops texture and pattern in her art.  

Art that has been exhibited all over the world (including a solo show at the UK’s biggest textile event The Knitting and Stitching Show) and featured in international publications (like Fiber Art Now and Embroidery Magazine).

But this course is not about creating a Sue Stone 'lookalike'

So what is the course about?

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Exploring Texture & Pattern with Sue Stone offers you a chance to...

Textile artist Sue Stone at work
  • Push the boundaries of a few simple hand stitch, strip fabric weaving and applique techniques 
  • Develop a personal visual vocabulary through systematic experimentation with those techniques
  • Build a repertoire of textural and patterned effects to enhance your textile art
  • Immerse yourself in regular yet manageable exercises so you establish a creative habit that fits your own schedule 
  • Build a library of unique and varied samples so you’re never stuck for inspiration when you start work on a new piece 
  • And be part of a community of like-minded creative people and get honest, constructive feedback from one of the UK’s most celebrated textile artists

What's included in the course?

14 video classes spread over 4 modules


Creative challenges

Creative challenges

Every video class has a creative challenge. You'll be experimenting with different ways of creating texture and pattern on samples.

There’s no need for any fancy materials: just a selection of threads and some fabrics and you’re ready to go! With each new sample, you'll be pushed to become more and more inventive so that you start to build a bold visual vocabulary. 


Goals and guidelines

Goals and guidelines

Each challenge has a goal and some guidelines. These give you a clear starting point and a focused path forward so there are no endless debates with yourself about the best course of action.

But you'll have plenty of flexibility too – what you create in response to the challenges will be entirely personal and unique. 


Sue Stone's artwork

Inspiration

To inspire you, Sue will share possible approaches and outcomes for each challenge. Plus there are plenty of examples from her own practice, but all the while she'll be encouraging you to originate not imitate.

The inspiration is there to give you the creative confidence to make brave choices for yourself.


Sue Stone samples

Moving forward

When you complete a challenge, you’ll be given a series of prompts to take what you discover forward in your textile art.

And by the end of the course you’ll have a collection of at least 15 stitched samples to use as inspiration for future work.

Supporting materials

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Class workbooks

Every video class has an accompanying printable guide that breaks down everything that’s covered in the video. These are designed to empower you to do the work. 

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Challenge checklists

Each video class also has a challenge checklist to keep you motivated. Tick items off the list as you go to stay on track with your experiments.

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Inspirational ebooks

Four inspirational mini ebooks (one for each module) take the techniques and ideas you're exploring and show how they've been applied by some amazing contemporary textile artists in their work.

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Plus much more...

Suggested schedules to keep you moving forward, encouraging emails to spur you on, stitch demo videos to remind you of the basics and recommended resources to help you go deeper.

The course modules


Module 1 – Exploring the potential of running stitch

Module 1: Exploring the potential of running stitch

This module is all about taking Sue Stone’s favourite technique and making it your own. You’ll play with spacing, colour, tone, various combinations of threads, changes in direction and layering. And you’ll discover endless new opportunities for using running stitch to create exciting areas of texture in your work.

Four classes


Module 2 – Exploring the versatility of simple hand stitches

Module 2: Exploring the versatility of simple hand stitches

You’ll experiment with backstitch to create a variety of patterns and as a drawing tool, a technique Sue uses all the time in her figurative work. You’ll also discover how a stitch Sue calls ‘mock herringbone’ can create intricate areas of pattern. And you’ll explore how couching can be used to make intriguing textural effects.

Four classes


Module 3 – Exploring simple weaving techniques

Module 3: Exploring simple weaving techniques

Here you’ll be experimenting with how to build layers of interest within your textile art using two straightforward weaving techniques; strip fabric weaving and needle weaving. By combining these techniques with some of the ideas explored in modules 1 and 2, you’ll discover exciting ways to create depth and detail in your work.

Three classes


Module 4 – Exploring handstich appliqué and layering

Module 4: Exploring hand stitch appliqué and layering

You’ll experiment with appliqué in conjunction with simple hand stitch techniques to bring a new and exciting element to your visual vocabulary. This is about taking your understanding of marrying various techniques to the next level. Sue herself has used the same experiments she’ll share with you to develop some of her best loved work.

Three classes

And that's not all...

You'll also get this amazing package of Bonuses


Private FB community

Bonus 1: Private Facebook community

Being part of this exclusive group offers a brilliant opportunity to connect with other students so you feel supported and motivated. Plus, your tutor Sue will be in the group on a regular basis to offer her advice and feedback on the work you post.  


Private webinar

Bonus 2: Private group webinar with your tutor

The webinars are a chance to interact with Sue in real time, hash out ideas and follow up on anything you're finding challenging about the course. A rare opportunity to get insights from a world-renowned textile artist.  


Mastering texture & pattern talk

Bonus 3: Sue Stone's Mastering Texture and Pattern talk

This is the talk Sue is regularly invited to share live with some of the UK's top textile art organisations. After this backstage glimpse into Sue's Texture and Pattern process, you'll be buzzing with ideas for how to take what you discover forward.  


Bonus 3 – Sue Stone's texture and pattern library

Bonus 4: Sue Stone's personal Texture and Pattern library

A collection of photographs taken by Sue during her travels around the UK, Europe and America offer an insight into how to look up, down and all around for inspiration in creating texture and pattern in your work.  


Stitchbook

Bonus 5: How to make a stitchbook class

Sue takes you step by step through how to create a stitchbook to keep all of your samples in. So whenever you need a starting point you'll have no further to look than this well-organised and beautifully presented reference.  

What students on Sue Stone's workshops say...

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“I never knew you could be so innovative with just fabric and thread. Loved the encouragement to think ‘outside the box’ with simple stitches and make them my own". 

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“I loved being taught by Sue – she inspired such confidence in her students. She was also extremely generous in sharing her time, her techniques and giving individual support and feedback”. 

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“Brilliant workshop. Amazing to explore techniques in new ways and I’ve never completed so much in such a short space of time. Feeling really motivated, excited and inspired”. 

30-day money back guarantee

30 day money back guarantee

TextileArtist.org’s reason for making this course with Sue Stone is to help you reach your aspirations as a textile artist. We want students to finish Exploring Texture and Pattern feeling empowered to use simple techniques in more inventive ways.  

But if you’re on the fence… or you’ve been disappointed with online textile art courses in the past… we want you to go forward with confidence. And that's why we’re offering a 30-day money back guarantee.  

If you complete the first two modules within 30 days and decide the course isn’t for you, we’ll give you a full refund.

There are a couple of conditions which you can read about in the Terms and Conditions (including the full refund policy) here.

Registration closes and course opens to members at midnight (UK time) on ADD DEADLINE HERE

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