Jubilant Stitches Exhibition Nov 2012

Jubilant Stitch Exhibition

The Jubilant Stitch Exhibition is put on by the Lincoln Bailgate Embroiderers' Guild

It will be held at Lincoln Central Library
from Monday 26th to Friday the 30th November
most days 10-4; Mon 1-4 and Fri 10-1

Leaf and butterfly Stitch club with Kate Steane 17 Nov 2012

There were five of us on Saturday free machining our way towards a leaf and butterfly ensemble. It was a relaxed day and so absorbing that three o'clock surprised us. 

Young Embroiderers and Carole Biggin

We had a lovely day with Carole Biggin on Saturday 17th November. In Carole's workshop the children were bonding, layering, stitching and beading, creating a fabric which was then cut and rearranged to create wonderful 3D decorations and seasonal cards. Both hand and machine embroidery was used in their work.

30th Nov Pauline Bloomfield: Talk - Origins & Beyond

Pauline will be talking with reference to her work - both large and small, framed and unframed wallpieces illustrating contemporary and ancient poems and myths by black writers. She uses hand and machine embroidery using silks, fleecy cottons, muslins, organzas, semi-precious stones, shells and coins.

Bejewelled Bags with Angie Hughes 27th Oct 2012

Angie set us up with black velvet, foils and sheer ready for a day of machining towards a bejewelled bag. To begin with we learnt how to use foils on velvet with bondaweb and each of us patterned our black velvet with fabric and foils. Over this went the sheer and the machining started in ernest. We learnt how to finish off our bags at home. 

To find out more about Angie and her work see www.angiehughes.com  

Brenda Scarman and Elizabethan embroidery 26th Oct 2012

She put together a kit for us to make her Elizabethan scissors case, part of a chaterlaine. The central aspect of this work was to learn detatched button hole stitch. Certainly this stitch puts all the expensive thread on show on the front of piece with very little on the back.
See Brenda's website at www.brendascarmanembroidery.co.uk