June Stitch Club - Saturday 25th

 We have had to change the date of the June stitch club to the 25th June, still at the Thomas Garrett Building in Heighington.

Due to the unavailability of our tutor for the planned day of activities (which will be run next season), it will be run by Judith and Jacqui.  There will be a mixture of things to do:

JUDITH

Pencil Storage Container Requirements List

• Paper needs to be firm (100gsm +)  You can use 6" squre paper or larger.
• Whatever your chosen size, ou will need 6 pieces, plus another 2 for the base.
• 1 piece of card for the base (Cereal box will do)
• PVA glue or a glue gun
• Paper clips to hold the paper whilst the glue sets
• Ruler
• Scissors for cutting paper.

Iris Folded Card

• Wrapping paper - to cut into strips, in four colours that compliment each other
• Judith has gold, silver and bronze colours
• Scissors or guillotine
• Narrow double sided tape
• Piece of card of mat to fasten the design down
• Card mounts (these will be available on the dayu)

JACQUI

Braiding

Will we be trying a variety of different braids using Kumihimo, and beaded jewellery with a form of macrame.  Requirements list:

• Threads of differents kinds and thicknesses, ribbon, goldfingering, stranded cotton, Perle cotton, novelty threads etc.
• Large beads as centre pieces for jewellery
• Jacqui will have some jewellery findings with her and also some very strong glue

If there are any further requirements, this post will be amended so stay tuned and hope to see you next month!!

Embroidered Knot Gardens

 Today, Jacqui took us through creating our own embroidered knot gardens, where we were encouraged to use a wide variety of threads to build up a textured 3-D imitation of a stately home's ornamental garden.

Here are some of the results.  I think a good day was had by all!  And as usual, Jacqui left the group with some homework!!!

Saturday 21st May: Embroidered Knot Gardens with Jacqui

 Our next stitch club on 21st May will be embroidered knot gardens, run by Jacqui.  She will have some supplies with her, such as the canvas, a mini pom-pom maker and some florists wire, but the choice of threads to use is completely your own.

If you can come with a vague idea of a design, we are going to do a mini garden about 4 x 4 inches.

Supply wise you will need your normal sewing kit including scissors, tapestry needles of various sizes, Jacqui will have milliners needles with her in case anyone wants to try their hand at bullion knots.  the canvas is a 20 count mono canvas, but if you think that will be too fine, a smaller count could be used.

The idea is to create as texture type piece, using stranded floss, ribbon, wool, fancy threads, goldwork, etc.  Basically anything you would like to put on it.  If you have a colour scheme, that's fine.  We are going to use textural stitches to build up a 3-D garden, so stitches like French knots, bullion knots, turkey stitch, textural tapestry stitches, woven stitches, needle lace stitches, you can put beads on it, buttons, felt (padding it if you wish), whatever takes your fancy.  You can use florists wire to create a more textural plant, the sky is the limit!!!

Jacqui has finished her sample, and now just needs to mount it, but here it is:

Here is some other inspiration for you!!!

The only thing to remember is that you need to be able to get your chosen thread/wool/etc through the holes, so chunky wools you won't, but you could couch them down.

Circular weaving on the day with Kate 23rd April 2022

 I have to apologise as I have only 8 images, from the 10 of you there. Please send me photos of the missing pieces, together with photos of your finished work, thanks.

inspired by Julie

Circular Landscape Weaving stitch club, Kate Steane Saturday 23rd April 2022

 

Requirements

Metal ring (provided by Kate)

Large blunt-ended tapestry needle

Strong yarn for warping up the circular frame

Specific yarns for tree "leaves" canopy and Tree trunks and fences and sheep; mixture of various textured wools for grass, rocks, flowers, fields, fences, walls

Picture/Photo/Postcard for landscape ideas. Any season can be used, gardens, outdoor scenes, woodland, hills and so on

I will be bringing lots of rings of various sizes (bought on line as lampshade rings), a few needles, some strong yarn and a whole load of wools as well as a few images.

Vanessa has noted that Magpie Fabrics in Saxilby has reduced all fabrics to clear

 

Chicken scratch with Judith Snaith 19th March 2022