THE SUMMER BIG STITCH | ONLINE WORKSHOP | 15th JUNE 2025
June 15th | 5.00 - 7.00pm | UK
Online Masterclass: Exploring Hand Embroidery
In this online workshop, you’ll learn three traditional hand embroidery techniques: seeding stitch, running and thread running. I’ll guide you through how to do each stitch, sharing not just the methods but the reasons behind them—why we make these marks and what they can mean.
This is more than just a skills-based session. You’ll discover the meditative benefits of slowing down and explore hand embroidery as a powerful tool for thinking, drawing, and mark-making.
You’ll also receive a handout at the end of the workshop to support your continued practice.
Whether you're new to stitching or looking to reconnect with hand embroidery in a deeper way, this session offers time, space, and inspiration to explore the beauty and potential of needle and thread.
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Details:
Location: Online via Zoom Webinar
Visibility: Only the host (Richard) will be on camera.
Interaction: Ask questions via the Zoom chat.
Note: The session will not be recorded.
Time Zone: All times are listed in UK time.
Ticket policy: Tickets are non-refundable.
Tickets – Pay What You Can
To make this masterclass as accessible as possible, tickets are offered on a Pay What You Can basis:
£15 / £20 / £25 / £30
(25 tickets available at each price point)
Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
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What You’ll Need:
Fabric – cotton, linen, wool, or any material you’d like to stitch on (avoid tightly woven fabrics; old napkins or tea towels work well!)
A range of embroidery threads – Perle and stranded threads are ideal
Embroidery/sewing needles
Scissors
An embroidery hoop
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About your tutor:
Finalist of the 2018 Loewe Craft Prize, Richard McVetis is a British artist/maker known for his meticulously embroidered drawings and sculptures. His artistic practice centres on his training as an embroiderer through traditional hand-stitch techniques and mark-making. Using laboured and meticulously worked wools and multiples of embroidered dots and crosses, he explores the similarities between pen on paper and thread on fabric, employing a limited mark-making vocabulary and deliberately subdued colour to create a binary simplicity.
McVetis graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, where he now teaches. He lives and works in London.
www.richardmcvetis.co.uk
Instagram @richardmcvetis
