Rainbow

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Create your own beautiful Rainbow. This is a larger project which is great for all levels, stitch along with Sarah and create this fabulous design. Using many popular threads, wires and leather.

Tracing is available to download above, the full materials are listed in the Materials tab above.

Use the materials that you have or you can purchase the kits with all the materials you need via the Golden Hinde website https://golden-hinde.co.uk/product/rainbow-kit

You will need :

  • 12 x 12 inch Silk dupion - we used sky blue
  • 12 x 12 inch poly cotton or calico
  • 2metres 3ply twist in Red; Copper; light gold; Grass Green; Peacock Blue; Purple; Pink
  • 6 x 6 White felt
  • 4 x 3 White leather
  • 8 inches Pearl purl 2 silver
  • Couching thread - You can use translucent thread is red, honey, leaf green, terracotta, sky blue, purple, pink and white -we used this in the photographs.    Or Stranded cottons to make it clearer - we used DMC Mouline special in the following colours , White B5200, Red 321, Pineapple 3821, Leaf Green 470, Autumn 3853, Powder blue 3755, Royal Purple 550, and Ballet slipper 3689 - we have used stranded cottons in the video
  • 11 x 11 inch frame
  • Needles - couching, darning and Leather
  • Embroidery scissors

 

Course Content

Rainbow Lesson 1 – Introduction
Rainbow – Lesson 2 setting up your frame
Rainbow Lesson 3 – Tacking and Tracing
Rainbow Lesson 4 – Goldwork Couching
Rainbow Lesson 5 – Plunging your ends
Rainbow Lesson 6 – Applying Felt
Rainbow Lesson 7 – Applying leather
Rainbow lesson 8 – Pearl Purl and finishing