May Stitch Club - Embroidered Leaves

 Our next stitch club will be on Saturday 17th May at the Thomas Garret Buildings in Heighington.  Running from 10:00 - 15:00 and Bron will be taking us through making embroidered leaves:

Requirements List

• Usual sewing kit
• Calico/linen/firm cotton
• Embroidery hoop (approx 7" / 19 cm)
• Stranded cotton/perle/other threads
• Pen/pencil for transferring the design
• Tracing paper, masking tape
• Scissors
• Embroidery needle
• Book of embroidery stitches or other aide memoire

Cost £5.00 members; £7.50 non-members.

Please bring a packed lunch, tea/coffee/biscuits will be provided.  Alternatively, sandwiches can be purchased from local shops.

Please let Judith or Jacqui know if you are coming.  We look forward to seeing you there.

April Stitch Club - Omiyage Bag

 April saw us making Omiyage Bags under the guidance of Vanessa.  Everyone had fun making these little bags which were all done by hand.  A comment was made that a lot more could be made if a sewing machine was used to sew the seams!

See below for some examples that were completed on the day.

Our next stitch club will be on Saturday 17th May when we will be embroidering leaves, under the guidance of Bron.  More details to follow.

Omiyage Bag

Our next stitch club will see Vanessa take us through the process of making an Omiyage Bag (a small triangular bag).  Requirements list as follows:

• 2 pieces of fabric 25cm square: one for the right side and one for the lining.  Please note, the lining shows on the finished bag where the triangle points are folded back.  Don't make the fabric too thick as pins have to go through 4 layers of fabric.  Cotton or silk would be ideal; plain or all over pattern as folding makes stripes or "right way up" pattern unsuitable.
• Fabric scissors, sewing needles and pins
• Tape measure or ruler
• Sewing thread to join seams on the right side of the bag
• Small beads or buttons to decorate the triangular points or embroidery threads if you want to stich a small motif on each point.
• Extra beads in you want to decorate bag seams (optional)
• Cord or ribbon to make drawstring closure.  Not needed if you prefer to 9mit closure and use the bag as a fabric pot.

Date:   Saturday 26th April 2025

Time: 10:00 - 15:00

Venue: Thomas Garrett Buildings, Heighington

Cost: £5.00 members, £7.50 non-members

Please bring a packed lunch.  Tea/coffee/biscuits provided.  Shop near to procure sandwiches etc if preferred.

Please let Jacqui or Judith know if you are coming, thank you.

See you there!!!

Textile Collage Stitch Club

 For the March stitch club, Kate took up through making a textile collage.  I believe everyone had a very enjoyable time.  Here are some of the results:

Because of Easter, our next stitch club will be on Saturday 26th April.

March Stitch Club - Textile Collage

 Our next stitch club will be on Saturday 15th March when we will be doing Textile Collage with Kate.  As usual it runs from 10:00 - 15:00 at the Thomas Garrett Rooms, Heighington.

Kate will bring:

• ·     a little iron and towel to iron on; water spray
• ·         lots of fabric pieces and a bag of felt bits
• ·         some fine felt tip pens
• ·         staple gun
• ·         collection of narrow ribbons

You will need

• ·        Ideas for your image – landscape, decorative abstract or maybe you will be inspired by photos you have taken or images in magazines.
• ·         Maybe buy a picture frame from a charity shop. This then gives you the size of your image. Alternatively your worked fabric can be attached (with a staple gun or drawing pins) after completion to a canvas over a frame (sold in art departments such as in the Range).
• ·         Backing fabric, larger than the size of your finished work. Calico is a good strong base to work on.
• ·         Fabrics of your choice to suit your image
• ·         Scissors
• ·         glue – Pritt stick style is OK for thin fabric and uhu type for thicker fabric
• ·         If you are adding stitch, then bring your embroidery threads and the rest of your kit
• ·         Beads and ribbons if you like

The three examples above are all glued textiles

 

Cost of the class is £5.00 for members and £7.50 to non-members.

If you are planning on attending, please let Judith or Jacqui know.  Thank you.  we look forward to seeing you there.

February Stitch Club

 A good day was had by all at the goldwork stitch club in February... here are some of the examples that were done:

Our next stitch club will be on March 15th when Kate will be taking us through Textile Collage.  Hope to see  you there!

February Stitch Club - Goldwork Embroidery

 Our next stitch club will be on Saturday 15th February 2025 at the Thomas Garrett Rooms at Heighington, where Jacqui will be taking us through creating an Easter egg in goldwork in a design of your own choosing.

Requirements List

• Any goldwork supplies you may have e.g.
• 3-ply twist (can be colours of your choice)
• Smooth purl
• Check purl
• Rough Purl
• Rococco
• Jap
• Whatever else you have
• Silk material or any other suitable backing for the goldwork 8” square
• Backing fabric for the silk 8” square
• Seed beads of your choice of colour, probably size 10 or smaller depending on size of your design
• Sequins of your choice of colour
• Beading thread
• Beeswax
• Matching coloured thread
• Sewing kit and scissors
• 5" or 6" embroidery hoop
• Sewing needle and beading needle

We’ll be creating embroidered easter eggs that could be used in a card or be a decoration.  The actual design is up to the embroiderer so we see a great variety of results.

If anyone doesn’t have any goldwork supplies, please let us know.  Jacqui will be bringing her supplies with her, just in case.  Please let us know if you are coming as well.  Thank you.

Please bring a packed lunch, coffee/tea/biscuits provided.  See you there!!!!