April 23rd. Members Si and Stitch and Open Day

A large number of our members gathered together to Sit and Stitch and generally catch up. It was such a lovely day. We discussed pieces that we are working on . We had also invited members of the public to come along and meet us and hopefully  they would like to join us.

We were also delighted to welcome Gill and Jane Gregory from Birmingham Embroidery and Textile Art group who had coordinated the Commonwealth  project . 12 of our members had taken part. They brought along the commonwealth panels which included all 72 countries that are taking part in the games and their own Birmingham panel. It was good to see the panels before they go on their travels.

                                                                                                   

 

Our members also brought work that they had done in previous workshops, together with collaborative pieces that we had worked on and work that will be going into forthcoming exhibitions

 

 

Thank you to all who attended and also to our visitors . 

 April 2nd - Jenny O'Leary workshop - Batik on tissue - Natural forms 

A large group of us had a wonderful workshop with Jenny creating lovely effects with batik on tissue. Jenny started the day showing some of her work and then demonstrated the layering of tissue and other papers to create a background

  

Jenny then demonstrated the use of various tools and utensils to create marks on paper and the tissue.

  

She then showed the effects of spraying a bleach solution on to the waxed tissue.

   

The final process 

was to add ink onto the bleached background

  

Here are some of the pieces that we  produced

   

   

   

   

Thank you Jenny for a lovely day