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.
