Please note start time: 11 am. After AGM business in the morning, we will be starting on the stitched ornaments for our tree in the Leamington Christmas Tree Festival. This year's decorations will be Scandi-style felt "baubles". They will be in a limited colour range to keep everything unified. Patterns and materials will be issued… Read More »AGM and Member Activity
Textile artist and tutor, Suzette, delivers workshops and talks throughout the UK as well as for French General in south-west France in 2023/24. In 2019 Suzette's work Draw My World In Words was selected for the inaugural Fine Art Textile Award Gallery at The Festival Of Quilts. She is one of the co-organisers and curators… Read More »Textile Connections: Zoom Talk by Suzette Smart
Suzette will take you through the steps to transfer vintage imagery onto fabric and ways for creating small collages with this technique. You will be shown ideas for developing your pieces of work further with the addition of fabric, lace and hand stitching. It’s a perfect technique for making textile books, and Suzette will show… Read More »Image Transfer: Workshop with Suzette Smart
Chloe Patience is an award winning textile designer who specializes in unique hand embroidery and embellishment for the fashion and interiors market on a freelance basis. Chloe also offers bespoke services to the public. After gaining her BA( Hons) and M(Des) Postgraduate degree in Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of… Read More »My Passion for Textiles: Zoom Talk by Chloe Patience
The aim of this workshop is to take an abstract design that you will make up yourself and then embroider. In addition: adding colour and shape to canvas with pens, fabric inks, etc Embroidery techniques: Turkey Work Amish Plush Work Couching (encouraging you to pleat, and experiment with the technique) Beading techniques - sewing lines… Read More »Three-Dimensional Stitch: Zoom Workshop with Chloe Patience
The Textile Fair is a three-day event this year, so we need to be getting our work ready ... Our theme is: A Year of Textile Explorations
The programme for the day will be sent out nearer the time, but we do know that our afternoon project will be to make Suffolk puff Christmas trees. These can be made as either a hanging decoration or a stand-alone tree. Keep an eye out for old wooden cotton reels. A fun and easy project,… Read More »Members’ Christmas Event
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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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! Students will develop skills, or improve those they already have, using Gelli plates, thermofax screens and stamps. The many possibilities of using these techniques, either alone or in combination, will be explored on fabric which… Read More »Print and Print Some More: Workshop with Alison Hulme