Claire, Dee, Sue and Pauline have spent time with Skipton Methodist Brownies working on a little project. The Brownies have been designing butterflies, stitching them and turning them into cards. Here are the lovely results with some of the design process.
Wow, what a day we've had! Deb Cooper came and ran a workshop for us: Lines and Edges with some dyeing with rust and tea thrown in for good measure. Deb brought us some really lovely samples to inspire us and lots of bits and bobs to include in our strips. Scraps of fabric were applied to a backing strip and stitched with various fabrics and papers with a selection of stitches. We used neutral colours ready to dye later. As we were stitching Deb produced a lucky dip of little pieces of paper each with an instruction of something to include as we stitched - a new stitch, a named stitch, lace, a different fabric etc - just to keep us on our toes! We also used lolly sticks and bobbins.
Deb's work:
Some of our strips or bundles of scraps were tea and rust dyed - tightly rolled to make 'spring rolls' and 'dimsum' - now their official name. We are waiting for our chinese starters to sit for a week and then dry before we see the results.
In today's meeting we had Rachael Singleton with us who ran her Sea and Stones workshop, and what a fabulous day we had. Plenty of oohs and ahas when Rachael was demonstrating potato printing pebbles as we all reverted to our childhood! We had a practice on paper - much needed as potato pebbles aren't quite as straightforward as you might imagine. We had really interesting colour blends in shades of grey with rust, green and yellowy additions for variety. We carved into some of the spuds to produce the lines found on pebbles. When we had graduated onto printing on muslin and the pieces had dried we moved onto embroidering them. Textured threads created moss and seed stitches added shading and more textures; we left with our pebble stacks to finish at home but works in progress are below. Many thanks to Rachael for a thoroughly enjoyable day.
