Craft for Care Week 1 - 6 April 2019

I am pleased to announce that I shall be supporting this event by running a kantha workshop on 3 April, between 10 to 12 at the
Dorset Centre for Creative Arts Middle Farm Way, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3AR

https://www.weld-hospice.org.uk/craft-for-care-workshops/

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened Michel de Montaigne

A Workshop at West Country Embroiderers

I attended a workshop at Sherborne branch of the West Country Embroiderers this Monday just past with the amazing Llinos Spriggs in 'charge'. Llinos works mainly in abstract and likes to use the idea of colour themes for pieces.  She presented us all with bags of scrap fabric and asked us to think of a flower and collect colours around that flower.  At first I thought of an iris, but then she demonstrated the colour idea using that same flower as her example.  I settled for a paeony - not sure if the spelling is correct - not important.

The first stage - layering up the fabrics; cottons, sheers, satin effect, sparkling bits!

A little bit of hand stitching - kantha style.

Machine embroidery!

The finished 
item
a
hand
made
book!