Course Overview

I’m so excited to share this essential embroidery skill with you — the prick and pounce method, a traditional and highly effective way to transfer your designs to fabric with precision and ease. Whether you’re brand new to embroidery or looking to expand your skills, this course will walk you through each stage of the prick and pounce process step-by-step. You’ll learn how to prepare your design, prick your pattern, apply the pounce, and transfer the design lines onto the fabric using one of three mediums — all ready for stitching. By the end, you’ll not only have a beautifully transferred design, but also the knowledge and confidence to use this method again and again in your embroidery practice.

Master This Essential Embroidery Skill & Set Yourself Up For Stitching Success - Every Time

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Course Curriculum

  1. Introduction

  2. Preparing To Transfer The Design

  3. Preparing The Design

  4. Transferring The Design

  5. BONUS; How To Stab Stitch Two Layers Of Fabric Together

About this course

  • £48
  • Video Instruction
  • BONUS Section

What You'll Learn

  • Prepare your design ready to transfer

  • Prick the pattern evenly and accurately

  • Apply pounce powder correctly for a clean transfer

  • Transfer the design in one of three mediums

  • Troubleshoot common issues and refine your results

What's included:

  • Videos

    Step-by-step video tutorials covering each step of the process.

  • Easy to follow

    Easy-to-follow instruction with clear, close-up demonstrations.

  • Lifetime access

    Lifetime access to all lessons and updates

This Course Is Perfect For:

  • Beginners wanting to learn a traditional embroidery transfer technique

  • More experienced stitchers looking to refine their skills further

  • Students preparing for advanced techniques such as silk shading, goldwork and stumpwork.

Transferring Your Embroidery Design: The Prick & Pounce Method

Join Me & Learn How To Transfer Your Embroidery Designs Using The Traditional Prick & Pounce Method

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Meet Your Instructor

Sara Rickards

Sara Rickards

Well Embroidered was founded by renowned hand embroidery expert, teacher and artist Sara Rickards. Over the years Sara has worked with both businesses and individuals to create bespoke hand embroidered pieces. Her love of teaching led her to also sharing her extensive embroidery knowledge and passion through her popular online classes and has taught sell-out classes around the world. Now running her own successful business, she has been able to expand and develop her teaching opportunities with self-paced classes and YouTube content meaning students can choose how they want to learn with Sara. With over 20 years in the industry Sara’s projects have been featured in Stitch magazine, she’s created bespoke pieces for fashion and bridal designers alike, conserved ecclesiastical embroidery and still manages to find time to teach on the Certificate & Diploma programme at the Royal School of Needlework where she trained as an apprentice. Her expertise and eye for detail means she is much in demand by the RSN as an assessor. Sara is passionate about inspiring her students to create their own exquisite embroidery and creates bespoke embroidery designs ready to be taught. 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. This is makes her a highly trusted and in demand teacher.