February 11th:
Mixed Media Fabric Art books. £65
Using hand painted Calico and
mixed media we will make a handmade fabric book cover and learn how to fill it with textile pages and some beautiful decorations and embellishments.
You will have the choice of making a simple concertina book or a bigger, more involved version with the opportunity to continue learning
additional techniques throughout the year to add to your skills and
the beauty of your book.
I forgot to take photos at this workshop because we were all so busy we forgot the time but Tina has just sent me the photos of her cover, front and inside. It is complete and just waiting for fabric pages. Have a look at the details on these covers.
The photo above is the front cover. I love that she chose a metal drawer handle as her closure for the book. There is so much detail to discover such as the hand drawn embellishment, stencilled and stitched areas and the hand made metallic butterflies.
Above is the inside of the book cover.She has divided and painted the squares and decorated them with lace, drawing and embroidery.
These are her signature colours and she has used them so well.
March 11th:
Scrap Stitching £65
We
will use hand
embroidery
with treasured scraps of textiles, silk and vintage embellishments to
make a little picture with exquisite details.
This will be a lovely chilled out day with slow stitching, lovely materials and learning new ways to create surfaces and decorate fabric. Good for the soul!
Later in the year, in
June, there will be a another chance to learn these and a different set of techniques
with rust dyed fabrics.
The photos above are just a couple of my little samples for inspiring my Scrap Stitchers. It must have worked!
The photos below are some of their finished pieces and their works in progress.
These are mostly beginners! I'm blown away by what they've done.
I will add more photos soon, but for now Look! Aren't they FAB!
Ilana's: Texture, colour and a riot of beautiful details to keep us all looking.
Jackie's: A wonderful mixture of texture and colour made with snippets of precious scraps and lovely decorative stitches.
Jill's: A beautiful little landscape work in progress with details of silk fibre and delicate stitching with hand dyed threads.
Kim's: A stunning textured heart. Work in progress. Beautiful layering that shimmers with lovely depth of colour.
Prue's: A billowy sky and landscape work in progress. Soft and dreamy layering of hand dyed silks and cottons. With fabulous tiny stitching and layering.
Tina's: A highly textured work in progress with cut organza flowers and scraps of fragile hand dyed silks on a hand dyed background.
And more stitching on this one.
Below is Alli's finished piece. Lots of wonderful stitching and details to find.
Alli's work in progress: Lovely textures again with very experimental stitches and yarns and couched found objects.
Tracey's: An exquisite shimmering dragonfly and pond stitchery.
The delicate dragonfly detail on a hand dyed background with scraps of silk fibre, dyed scrim and hand dyed threads.
Oh my goodness! You have all made me so happy. I am in love!
April 8th:
Blanket Books £65
We will use beautiful vintage
wool blankets, wool fibre and hand embroidery to make Folk Art
inspired treasure books. An heirloom to inspire all who see and touch this very
special textile book.
May 13th: Vintage Inspired Mini Quilts £65
We
will use some fantastic vintage resources like antique lace, pearl and linen buttons, precious found objects and vintage photos to learn how to make tiny hand embroidered fabric 'Quilts'. You will be able to take these home finished, to be framed or use them in a
future textile project. You could also use them as pages in your Fabric Books if you are working on one of these with me.
June 10th:
Scrap Stitch 2. £65
We will use precious scraps of
vintage fabrics, lace, rust and metal with hand embroidery
to make an exquisite textile panel.
July 8th:
Folk Art Needle felted and hand embroidered picture. £65
We will needle felt and
embroider a Folk Art inspired picture onto vintage wool blanket using
merino wool fibre and hand dyed, silk and wool threads.
October 13th
and 14th:
2 Day workshop. Altered Books.
£150
This is a 2 day workshop which
will introduce the subject of Altered Books from scratch and advance
into adding doors with real hinges, niches and decorative 3D elements
and mixed media techniques. You will leave with lots of ideas to
continue your adventures with Altered Books.
February 11th:
Mixed Media Fabric Art books. £65
Using hand painted Calico and
mixed media we will make a handmade fabric book cover and learn how to fill it with textile pages and some beautiful decorations and embellishments.
You will have the choice of making a simple concertina book or a bigger, more involved version with the opportunity to continue learning
additional techniques throughout the year to add to your skills and
the beauty of your book.
The photo above is the front cover. I love that she chose a metal drawer handle as her closure for the book. There is so much detail to discover such as the hand drawn embellishment, stencilled and stitched areas and the hand made metallic butterflies.
Above is the inside of the book cover.She has divided and painted the squares and decorated them with lace, drawing and embroidery.
These are her signature colours and she has used them so well.
March 11th: Scrap Stitching £65
This will be a lovely chilled out day with slow stitching, lovely materials and learning new ways to create surfaces and decorate fabric. Good for the soul!
Later in the year, in June, there will be a another chance to learn these and a different set of techniques with rust dyed fabrics.
The photos above are just a couple of my little samples for inspiring my Scrap Stitchers. It must have worked!
The photos below are some of their finished pieces and their works in progress.
These are mostly beginners! I'm blown away by what they've done.
I will add more photos soon, but for now Look! Aren't they FAB!
Ilana's: Texture, colour and a riot of beautiful details to keep us all looking.
Jackie's: A wonderful mixture of texture and colour made with snippets of precious scraps and lovely decorative stitches.
Jill's: A beautiful little landscape work in progress with details of silk fibre and delicate stitching with hand dyed threads.
Kim's: A stunning textured heart. Work in progress. Beautiful layering that shimmers with lovely depth of colour.
Prue's: A billowy sky and landscape work in progress. Soft and dreamy layering of hand dyed silks and cottons. With fabulous tiny stitching and layering.
Tina's: A highly textured work in progress with cut organza flowers and scraps of fragile hand dyed silks on a hand dyed background.
And more stitching on this one.
Alli's work in progress: Lovely textures again with very experimental stitches and yarns and couched found objects.And more stitching on this one.
Below is Alli's finished piece. Lots of wonderful stitching and details to find.
Tracey's: An exquisite shimmering dragonfly and pond stitchery.
The delicate dragonfly detail on a hand dyed background with scraps of silk fibre, dyed scrim and hand dyed threads.
Oh my goodness! You have all made me so happy. I am in love!
