A lovely opportunity to catch up with fellow members and spend a relaxed day making simple figures which are often called either memory dolls or 'stitch goddesses' ... This is a really fun project, which can be made using scraps / precious remnants / really whatever fabrics, threads and bits & pieces you want.  Make… Read More »Members’ Day

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Permission to play! Create your own collection of gorgeous, abstract, postcard sized prints on fabric. Enjoy using a selection of mark-making tools, found objects, stencils, stamps and themofax screens to build up layers of print. We will then go on to adding a layer of colour along with some added extras. These can then be… Read More »Stamp-Print-Paint: Workshop with Liske Johnson

Alison is an artist living and working on the edge of the New Forest. She says, "I have a huge passion for both nature and textiles that I love to share with everyone I meet! As well as creating my own work, I also travel around the country sharing my skills through workshops and talks."… Read More »My Life in Stitch: Talk by Alison Hulme

If you love to print, or want to discover the joy of printing, then this is a day for you! The workshop is a chance to use hundreds of different thermofax screens and also cover other forms of printing. Students will develop skills, or improve those they already have, using Gelli plates, thermofax screens and… Read More »Print and Print Some More: Workshop with Alison Hulme

We are very pleased to welcome back Linda Miller, whose speciality is her intensively machine-stitched pictures.  Colourful and naive, her narrative embroideries often feature people and animals set in the outdoors with their own stories. Linda's talk and slideshow covers all aspects of her work - incorporating the joys of being a practising textile artist,… Read More »In Stitches: Talk by Linda Miller

Bring your sewing machine and join Linda and a group of like-minded stitchers to sew up the mysteries of free machine embroidery. Bring along a drawing, picture or photograph that inspires you.  Working with your own machine, and using a variety of colours and thicknesses of threads, you will learn how to translate your original… Read More »Making Pictures in Free Motion Embroidery, Workshop with Linda Miller

Observation, imagination, inspiration: three key words which guide Amanda in her working practice, which evolves through her use of sketchbooks to record, explore, and experiment. Amanda's talk is illustrated with a PowerPoint presentation, sketchbooks, samples and textile pieces. http://www.amandahisloptextileartist.com

The aim of the workshop is to explore an expressive approach to the effects of layering papers, fabrics, threads and found materials to form surfaces for stitch. In preparation for the day school, collect together landscape or seascape images to use as inspiration for your work; try to have a connection with the image, personal… Read More »Layers in Land and Sea: Workshop by Amanda Hislop