That Darn Stitch! Patricia Barrett Storey Gallery

Five of our members travelled to Lancaster to take part in a darning workshop with Pat Barrett at the Storey, Lancaster, as part of the activities surrounding the Tied by Stitch Exhibition.
Darning does not do justice to what Pat does with darning as a colourful and textural embroidery stitch. See elephant below

Pat showed us some delightful pictures which we might like to use for inspiration and her enthusiasm was very infectious when it came to her "darning" and "threads".
To get started we made a sketch on our background material of our ideas.
Then Pat demonstrated how to lay the warp thread in small patches on our quick sketches and then weave the weft thread through them varying colours and shades.

The technique was very addictive and I think it will not be long before all of these are finished!
All thanks go to Pat for a most enjoyable day and introducing us to using darning as a creative embroidery stitch.