Stitching with found objects - April meeting

Inspired by the workshop with Alice Fox, Abigail brought along a whole pile of interesting things and we continued experimenting with found objects at our April meeting. Here is a shot of the things we had to play with:

And here is a collection of the samples that were produced during the day:

We also admired Helen's curved piecing from the previous meeting, which she was embellishing with postage stamps:

 

And Abigail showed us some samples of what we'll be making at the next meeting:

Liz will shortly be sending round details of what you will need to bring.

See you all on 21 May! 

Alice Fox workshop at Parbold Embroiderers Guild

Five members of the group did a workshop with Alice Fox on 18 March, where we were stitching with found objects. Here are a couple of pictures of the results.

I have a feeling we'll be doing something similar at the April meeting.

Preparing our stitch resists - October meeting

At yesterday's meeting we were busy preparing our fabric for dyeing in November, so there's not much to see! Lis brought these samples and explained how each had been done. Believe it or not, these are all created using lines of running stitch, which are pulled up tight to stop the dye getting to some areas.

Then we all sat and stitched industriously with neutral threads and fabrics (or with coloured fabrics). The gathered fabrics don't look like anything at this stage.

We also saw samples of other resist techniques which we could try at the next meeting: pleating, wrapping with string, wrapping round a pole or tube and the photo here is of a piece over dyed using a clamp resist.

Keep stitching! You have four weeks to prepare lots of pieces to dye in November.