Monday 30 March 2020

Textile News 2

I hope you are all keeping well and finding things to do?
Forsythia bush in the Spring sunshine

Mary sent a picture of her pretty Spring garden in the sunshine
 Sandra has just finished off her blue/white embroideries [dyed with quink ink] by machining a cord to the edge.

Blue and White



Sandra said she loves the clean, fresh look of blue and white and hopes to do some more!

Denise has also been working with blue and white. She has been weaving with blue and white wool building up columns of 2/3/4 warp threads and also joining some together. When finished Denise is going to pull the warp threads to contort the weaving making a 3D structure. We are all waiting to see what happens Denise. Thank you for sharing the lovely weaving with us.

Sunday 22 March 2020

Textile News

If you have a garden it will help lift your spirits and give you exercise if you don't you can share some of my flowers.

Sandra has posted the following projects she is working on.

Weaving houses
Research for positivity square

Stella's Contemporary Twist
Janet has contacted us to say she has finished the work started with Stella at the last meeting inspired by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh rose.
She used a piece of handmade paper, brusho sprayed at the Colourcraft Day. She stenciled three roses using paint sticks then Sashiko stitched on the outline of the rose. 
Design and inspiration for piece

Finished piece inspired by Mackintosh
 Janet would have liked to use a darker green thread but used what she had access to.
Well Done Janet! It is very pretty and the design is in the Spirit of Mackintosh but using paper.

Experimental Stitching to construct a Book for Wedding Guests to sign.
The following experimental stitching has just been completed by Mary. Her granddaughter has just got engaged and she wants to make a book for all the wedding guests to sign and write messages in on the day.
She has been working on a beautiful piece of hand-dyed velvet couching a cord made on her cord machine.
 She is going to continue trialling and intends to try white silk.
It is very beautiful and your granddaughter is lucky to have a grandmother go to so much trouble for her and her future husband. 
Good Luck with the sampling! 

Gardening,sewing and knitting 
Because of the lovely Spring weather, Bev has been spending a lot of her time in the garden getting things ready for the growing season.

 In between gardening she has also managed to finish her bag, wind her temari ball ready for stitching and knit a very pretty coloured jacket.

 Your garden looks good and I love the colours of your jacket. Keep up the good work!

Wednesday 11 March 2020

Contemporary Twist in Traditional Needlework - Stella Adams-Schofield March Meeting 2020

This month we welcomed back Stella who always makes us think.
She provided us with definitions of contemporary and discussions took place on what we thought of as contemporary in various artistic fields not just textiles.


The first thing we were asked to do was to get used to our unusual materials, which we had brought with us, by doing some stitch. This helped us to understand the properties of our materials.










After we had explored our materials we discussed our favourite traditional technique and then made designs using that technique in a contemporary way.
We then took our designs home to make and once they are finished members will bring them back to a meeting.

A big thank you to Stella for introducing us to four new contemporary textile artists and making us consider the way we work at the moment and what we might use in the future.

Thursday 5 March 2020

Multi-coloured Raffle,March meeting 2020

This month the raffle colour is multi-coloured.