Summer School June 2016

On a hot, sunny, Friday afternoon Sandra , Bev and Sue set off for Summer school which was to be at Waddow Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire this year, because Alston Hall is no longer available. Bev and Sandra had never been to Waddow Hall before but Sue had visited with the Guides. As we arrived we a saw an attractive house set in beautiful grounds with the river Ribble running over a  weir and a rock strewn river bed. [see pictures below]

 It was an interesting house set in very pretty grounds and we were made to feel welcome.

Sandra and Sue were doing the "creative surfaces" course with Lynda Monk using a variety of non woven textiles and "paints" that could be modified and distressed with heat.
Lynda was very organised and after each break there would be a new pack of items on our chair to work with in the next session.
We covered using lutadur, tyvek, evolon, xpandaprint transfer dyes gilding and tissue.
We also leart how to use xpandaprint through a screen, make book covers, a note book and all sorts of fragments which you can see in the pictures below.

We covered a vast array of techniques with some things to finish at home.  I am sure many of the things we learnt will be useful in our future work.

Bev had chosen  "painting garden themes with stitch" led by  Maggie Hickman Smith. Their group worked on using hand stitches to produce flowers in a garden.
Their work was very delicate using either 1/2 strands to produce very realistic flowers as you can see from the following pictures.

It was a very enjoyable Summer School and we all learnt a lot of new techniques, made new friends, caught up with old ones and enjoyed a new venue.
The new venue was in a very attractive setting with interesting bedrooms and good food.
If you have never been to Summer School you might like to consider it next year and you can see in the hand out below what will be on offer.