Today one of members Clare ran a workshop on altered textiles involving all sorts of interesting techniques. Sewing machines, heat guns and irons at the ready participants zapped, crashed, manipulated and partially destroyed 😬 layered fabrics. There was plenty of bondaweb and transfer foil, fancy stitching and new fabrics with textures created. Everyone had a great time playing. Thanks to Clare for all her hard work putting the workshop together.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Skipton Stitchers.
Today we had our Christmas Jacob's Join lunch which is always lovely and we exchanged handmade Christmas cards. We also had our new competition with prizes of £75 for 1st, £50 for 2nd and £25 for 3rd. Entries were voted on and the results were...
Margaret 1st with her absolutely stunning book depicting her garden:
2nd Sue I
3rd Judith N
Today Jackie led us in a mini workshop on teabag landscapes. Jackie is a real whizz with her left over teabags and has shown us her beautiful work using them many times. Well, we got to join in today. She has been saving Yorkshire teabags (what else?!) for a while, drying and preparing them for us to use. She brought inlets of little bits and pieces to create our miniature landscapes - bits of scrim, plumbers scrim(?!), evenweave fabrics and florist's ribbon; we got to delve into her ort tin of lacy scraps. Once we had selected pieces for out background, middle and foreground we stitched them down and then added embroidery. Everyone loved the results and they were all different. Don't throw you teabags away, turn them into mini works of art!
Some of Jackie's lovely work:
