Exploring Design Sources for Embroidery

Sandra Jenkins' talk next Friday 4th May, will focus on how she has developed her skills as a maker and designer through experimenting with a variety of textile techniques and materials.  

Sandra has, over the years, been involved in engaging and motivating both young and older design students towards making satisfying creative statements.  She feels the starting point for textile work should be an interesting design idea.  Techniques learned and practised will have a longer shelf life if students are able to continue to develop ideas after a workshop.  

Sandra's courses start with simple methods of design production, and she will have 'step by step' plans using a range of materials to help explore the theme.

Come along on Friday evening and get some inspiration for that ever-present challenge for stitchers and embroiderers - finding the design idea that gets you started.

Members and visitors are welcome.

Sandra will follow her talk with a workshop on 

Saturday 5th May: 

Sumptuous Sacs

This will be a chance to experiment with resist techniques and combine the resulting patterned fabrics with velvet into a sumptuous surface that can be turned into a small pouch drawstring bag. 

There is a place available on this workshop.  

If you are interested in learning more, please contact our Booking Secretary: jennyarcher401@gmail.com

Covered boxes

Apologies for the deliberate mistake in the last post!  The date was actually Saturday 7th, and we had a fabulous day covering boxes with some lovely pieces of work.

The idea was to use up some UFOs, of which we all seem to have plenty!  We had been saving suitable boxes for a while, and you can see some of the beautiful results below.

Firstly, some ready-made samples by Gill, Lucy, Beth and Sue for inspiration:

Work in progress:

  and some finished and near-finished boxes ... 

Our thanks to Gill and Lucy, our Programme Secretaries, who put so much effort into planning the session and producing beautiful samples.  We had a super day.



Our next meeting will be a talk on Friday 4th May by

Sandra Jenkins, "Exploring design sources in embroidery"

More details soon.