October 21st  Hand embroidery Experiment, Expand and Explore Alison Parkes

Alison started the day by showing how we could use our source material to make a background on either cotton or felt and then using a felting tool or the machine we could start to build it up.

Here are some of Alison’s backgrounds

She then asked us to look at our threads and decide between different weights to create a colour palette

Once we had done that she showed how using a variety of stitches that we could build upon the felted background. Using just one stitch eg French knots

 

Or Blanket stitch

in different weights of threads can build up an interesting surface.

Here are some of us working during the day

And then what we had achieved by the end of the day

Thank you Alison for a lovely relaxing day