Echidna P.I.E. February Birth Month Flower Embroidery Design Collection by Echidna

Machine embroidery should be a fun and rewarding experience for all. Join professional digitizer and industry pioneer, Lindee Goodall as she takes you on a 12 month inspirational and educational journey deep into the world of computerized machine embroidery -- Echidna P.I.E. (P.I.E. stands for Premium Inspiration and Education).

In an exciting creative twist, Lindee has based each project and the accompanying designs on "birth month flowers". Whether you are a beginner or experienced machine embroiderer, you will discover that Lindee's teaching is very thorough, well-presented, jargon free and easy-to-understand. Your embroidery skills will blossom as will the pleasure of creating beautiful new projects.

At the end of 12 months your embroidery education library will have grown. And you will always have Lindee's notes on hand for easy reference. If you plan to print your notes, we suggest you buy a 2-ring display binder from your local stationer to store your notes. We've even supplied a printable binder cover insert for you.

This series originally premiered in Australia and includes the Australian birth month flowers. Not Aussie? No problem! The U.S. birth month flowers are also included in the project set.

The Iris is the eighth in the Birth Month Flower series of Echidna P.I.E. (P.I.E. stands for Premium Inspiration and Education).

Month 8 (February) is all about "Working with Colour: Thread and Fabric". In this lesson Lindee will explain "Colour Theory and Embroidery".

For this month's project you will learn how to customise a fillstitch design and the best technique to use to embroider it onto a sweatshirt.

Whether you are a beginner or experienced machine embroiderer, you will discover that Lindee's teaching is very thorough, well-presented, jargon free and easy-to-understand. Your embroidery skills will blossom as will the pleasure of creating beautiful new projects. For insipration, visit the Echidna P.I.E. Gallery to see what others have created. If you have missed the previous months of Echidna P.I.E you will find them here.

A Year of Flowers: Iris | Working With Colour: Thread & Fabric

What You'll Learn ...

Principles of colour theory and how to apply them for selecting thread colours
Considerations for thread colour selection
What to know about colour sorting
How to compose a new design layout
How to select a different colour palette for a design
Where to place a full front design
How to stabilize for sweatshirts
What to consider for fabric coverage
When to break some embroidery best practices for hooping

What's Included ...

Iris fillstitch designs -- all sizes. As an added bonus we've also included the Primrose U.S.A. birth month flower fillstitch designs.
PDF project instructions to embroider a fillstitch design onto sweatshirt -- 23 colour pages
Colour Theory and Embroidery lesson in PDF format -- 20 colour pages

What You'll Need ...

Aside from the usual embroidery equipment you will need some customizing software such as Embrilliance Essentials. Although, if you have no software this month's project is very simple and could be done at the editing sceen of your machine.

This series originally premiered in Australia, where the birth month flower is the Iris. Not Aussie? No problem! The U.S. birth month Primrose flower is also included in the project set.

Echidna P.I.E. February Birth Month Flower

SKU: EP-FEB15