Thread painted and embroidered pictures

9 ladies from in and around Bedfordshire came together to learn how to put and impression of a view down on to fabric before filling it in with simple embroidery stitches, bringing it to life. We spent the first part of the morning getting comfy with the paint and then moved on to choosing thread colours and the joy of just sitting and sewing.

Below are a selection of what the ladies achieved. I was very pleased with the outcome 

Thread painted and embroidered pictures

I'm off today to get the ladies comfy with applying colour washes to white cotton that suggest scenery.

We are then going to use our hand sewing threads to embroider and suggest details, hopefully ending up with something like below 

Quick and easy scrap organza flowers

Today I will be demonstrating these quick and easy flowers made from layers of organza v and machine embroidery. I am doing this at Tudor rose patchwork shop as part of their shop hop week . Four other shops are taking part and the idea is that you hop from shop to shop across the week buying different things from each shop whilst checking them out. 

If your in the area tomorrow do pop in and come and have a chat with me and I will show you how to create these flowers

Machine embroidered Art Deco tiles

Six enthusiastic ladies came and spent the day learning how to use their sewing machines as a painting instrument. The aim was for each student to produce a small square with a floral motif stitched in place, the design being completely coloured in with free motion stitches worked in small movements to creat a coloured surface on top of which they machined any details . All ladies did really well but as expected some machines had their moments and caused the usual frustrations that can be associated with free motion embroidery. Below are a selection of lovely little 2" by 2" tiles created on the day.

Shrewsbury E G Workshop - Stitching On Plastic

Spent a lovely evening with the ladies of Shrewsbury E G sharing my second best passion for stitching on plastic. ( which makes a change from my first passion of soldering organza).  I took along my coats and jackets made from layered and stamped images and also many of my studio samples and finished pictures. Everyone appeared very interested after the talk and after a beautiful drive home to Jens who hosted me in her beautiful rural home a well attended next day workshop was held. The ladies were excellent and all produced a sample while hopefully their heads were filling up with innovative ideas to follow up on when that got home. Many of their samples were very nickable little gems of which I could of just brought home and kept and I hope the ladies now see the potential for this unusual but quite satisfying weird media that I love to use. Good day, great ladies, wonderful hospertality.

More beach huts ( I'm hooked on them)

Oh I've had such fun. I didn't think I would love playing around with Daz, making bits and bobs to collage together.

Theses pieces or work have a machined background of bonded strips of cotton machined down with some of my decorative programmed stitches . The beach huts and handmade shells and bits have then been beaded and stitched on top.

Great fun. I think I might be making more . Lol