Embroidery Next Steps - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

This course will give you the opportunity to further develop your modern embroidery skills through a range of creative projects and exercises. You will build confidence in using more advanced embroidery techniques while exploring texture, colour, composition, and decorative surface design. Working in a supportive and creative environment, you will create a personalised embroidered piece and develop your own creative style.

This course is suitable for learners who have completed a beginner's embroidery course or who already have a basic knowledge of embroidery techniques.

Throughout the course, learners will develop their modern embroidery skills by exploring a wider range of stitches, materials, and decorative techniques. The course will cover planning and developing embroidered designs, creating texture and visual interest, and using embroidery in a more expressive and creative way.

Learners will have opportunities to experiment with different materials and approaches while developing confidence in selecting appropriate techniques for their own work. Inspiration will be drawn from a variety of contemporary and traditional embroidery styles.

Learning will take place through tutor demonstrations, practical activities, discussion, and individual support. By the end of the course, learners will have produced a completed embroidered piece and developed the skills and confidence to continue their embroidery journey independently.

What you will need to bring to the course:

• Light-coloured cotton or linen fabric (a plain old or spare pillowcase that you are happy to cut up will be suitable)

• An embroidery hoop

• Embroidery needles – Large eye and sharp point.

• Embroidery thread/floss in a few colours of your choice

• Small scissors

• Friction pen or pencil

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)

• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• North East Combined Authority

• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

• Tees Valley Combined Authority

• West Midlands Combined Authority

• West of England Combined Authority

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

• York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

• Hull and East Yorkshire

• Greater Lincolnshire

• Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority

• Cornwall Council

• Lancashire Combined County Authority

• Buckinghamshire Council

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.