Jo is a contemporary textile artist, designer and tutor. In this workshop you will learn a variety of techniques to create your finished textile piece. There will be plenty of inspiration available for you. Free motion embroidery is an exciting technique where you are able to 'draw' with the sewing machine - also known as… Read More »Workshop: Free Motion Landscapes, with Jo Hill
Experiment with metal as a textile. Alysn has a long-standing reputation as an innovative textile artist. She works primarily in copper, bronze, brass, stainless steel in the form of shim and woven metal, combined with a variety of fabrics, paints and threads. Surfaces are often altered by burnishing, texturing, printing, patterning and patinating. … Read More »Summer School (2 days): Mixed Metal Patchwork with Alysn Midgelow-Marsden
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
Members can bring along any work for Compton Verney
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, Friday 8th to Sunday 1oth November. Our theme is: A Year of Textile Explorations We are privileged to have been invited to display our work in the Chapel again, and planning for this is well underway. Members will shortly receive further details of arrangements for displaying… Read More »Compton Verney Textile Fair