WELL EMBROIDERED
Educating and inspiring students to create truly exquisite embroidery
Welcome to Well Embroidered, a place where I share my passion for embroidery and provide you with the knowledge to elevate your designs and hone your embroidery skills. Whether you seek helpful tips on our resources page (coming soon), online classes, or private lessons – we have something to suit every aspiring embroiderer.
Beyond its artistic appeal, the simple act of guiding a needle through fabric offers therapeutic benefits proven to reduce stress, anxiety, and even enhance brain function. In today's fast-paced, overstimulated world, taking the time to slow down and embrace the art of embroidery becomes ever more essential – a calming way to channel your creativity and find joy in the process.
Courses
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Designing For Goldwork Embroidery
CourseIn this comprehensive course, you’ll learn how to create stitch-ready goldwork designs with clarity, balance and creativity - developing ideas from concept to line drawing, stitch plan, and final design, ready for you to stitch.
£48
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The embroidery Project Planner - PDF
Digital downloadTransform the way you plan your projects with our Embroidery Project Planner—a beautifully designed tool to guide you through every stage of the creative process. This planner helps you stay focused, organised and on track from start to finish.
£22.80
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Deep Dive Into Jacobean - Friday afternoon
CourseAn in depth course where you will learn a huge variety of Jacobean crewelwork stitches such as trellis, fishbone, vandyke, satin stitch, long & short, cretan, seeding, block shading, burden and Turkey rug to name just a few.
£1,290
“I’m so happy that I took the plunge (no pun intended) and signed up for the Deep Dive into Goldwork. Sara is an amazing tutor and has thought of everything to make this an enjoyable and achievable course. I would highly recommend Sara and her fabulous course without hesitation.”
Lesley Maw
Sara Rickards
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Well Embroidered was founded by artist and hand embroidery expert, Sara Rickards. As a detail focused creative, Sara works with individuals and businesses to create bespoke hand embroidered pieces as well as sharing her expansive embroidery knowledge with her students so they too, can create incredible one off designs.
Sara has spent over 20 years in the industry: her projects have been featured in Stitch magazine, she’s created bespoke pieces for fashion and bridal designers alike, conserved ecclesiastical embroidery and regularly teaches classes for the world renowned experts, the Royal School of Needlework where she trained as an apprentice.
Sara is passionate about inspiring her students to create exquisite embroidery and creates bespoke embroidery kits, runs online courses and teaches sell-out classes around the world. She has a talent for clearly explaining the method behind working an embroidery stitch, whilst anticipating potential problems students may have and correcting them before too much unpicking is needed.