Lorraine Brettle Printing workshop 14/15 March

Here are some images of the wonderful 2 day printing workshop with Lorraine. Some even printed enough fabric to make an apron.

Thank you for your hard work in preparing for this workshop. Fabulous 2 days

  

      

                                                                                                           

        

 Gill Biel - My Life in Stitch - March 1st 

Here a few slides from Gill's fascinating talk on her life of stitching since a very young age. 

She went from very simple embroidery through dressmaking to creating so many beautiful pieces of work. She  had so much to show us and it was apparently only a fraction of what she has produced. We were in awe of the quantity and diversity of her work

We  are all looking forward to her Mary Feddon inspired Still Life workshop

Thank You Gill 

Lizzie Wall - Funky Appliqued Chicken

 January 18th - Workshop with Lizzie Wall

We all had a fabulous day with Lizzie. She supplied all we needed to produce a fabulous funky chicken. and she took us through the processes beautifully.

 3 stages of the funky Chicken

              Some of the group's chicken in process of being put together

 Lizzie starting the machine stitching

 A baby chick, using the left over pieces of fabric

Our semi finished chickens (and hares!)

I hope you agree that they are amazing and I look forward to seeing them all finished 

Ruth Duffy - Inishowen and Beyond

 Ruth told us of her memories of living in Inishowen, Ireland. She told us of the many different ways she uses her many skills of using textiles and stitch, as well as other techniques. She is a member of our group and we all enjoyed her talk very much and found all her work to be very interesting and inspirational.

 Calm before the Storm

 From a workshop by Amanda Clayton, but with Ruth's own interpretation using lights and a box.

 Ruth's Temperature Quilt, using the Celtic seasons. 

 Broignter Hoard (Loch Foy)

 Community Multicoloured Coat using patches from St Mary's community.

 Unveiling of Panto project pieces - Wolverhampton 

Three of our members attended the unveiling of the Grand Theatre project today. We had made patches for Cinderella’s dress

The Grand theatre gallery exhibition celebrated 130 years of the grand theatre . Each 'picture' represents a pantomime and includes the years when they were performed. The groups that contributed included schools, Girl Guides, Compton Care, Bangladeshi groups, refugee groups, lgbt group and lots more. It was really impressive how many different communities came together to produce it. The whole project is supported through charitable contributions.  

 November 16th Kaffe Fassett inspired bowl - Claire Muir

We spent a lovely day yesterday with Claire Muir making a bowl inspired by Kaffe Fassett. 

Claire led us step by step through all the processes

Layering up fibres

Adding fabric and sparkly ‘bits’ 

Machining 

And then our final pieces after dissolving away the stabiliser and forming them over a bowl

Claire also showed some other bowls that had been made in a similar way

Thank you Claire for a lovely day 

Claire’s work can be seen on Instagram and Facebook

Panto project 9th November

Panto project - 9th November

A group of us under the guidance of Pauline from Heath House studio spent a morning making patches for Cinderella’ s dress . This will be part of the display at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre during the pantomime in a few week’s time . The Grand are celebrating 130 years of Panto at the theatre and the display will include characters from many of the previous productions .

This is what we produced