Great meeting today with Maggie Pearson telling us about her journey into eco printing. Catch her workshop on Saturday 13th September.______________
Thank you for booking on my workshop, The Secrets of Summer Leaves and Flowers
- on Saturday September 13th 2025
- from 10.30am to 4.30pm
- with Alsager Creative Stitchers
- at United Reformed Church Hall, Brookhouse Road, Alsager, Cheshire, ST7 2PA
I'm really looking forward to working with you.
Please could you bring with you:
• An apron or old clothes which you don’t mind getting messy
• a good pair of shoes or trainers which will support your feet well. You will be standing for a lot of the day.
• A note book and pen for taking notes
• Smart phone or camera to take photos of your layout before you bundle, if you wish.
• A pair of scissors to cut leaf stems with
• A small hammer if possible [in case we have tie for hapazome]
• A pair of washing up gloves or surgical-type gloves to protect your hands, but flexible enough to enable you to work with leaves.
• Bags or bucket to take home damp samples and items.
It would be great if you could bring the following, but don’t worry if you can’t:
• Onion skins, just the dry external skins [red and/or yellow kept separately]
• Flowers [optional]
o Cosmos
o Coreopsis
o Marigolds
o Colourful daisies
• Any of the following leaves [you don’t need them all!]:
o rose
o herbaceous/hardy geraniums/cranesbill
o paeony
o tree paeony
o silver birch
o sumac
o cherry
o walnut
o maple
o sycamore
o cotinus [smoke bush]
o Japanese acer [acer palmatum];
o horse chestnut;
o catalpa [Indian bean tree]
If you have any other favourite leaves you want to try to print, either pick them on the morning of the workshop, or the evening before [they will be ok overnight in an airtight container or bag in the fridge], and we can discuss and explore at the workshop whether they will print!
Workshop materials
For the materials fee per person of £25, I will supply all necessary mordants, dyesand fabric fully prepared for each of you:
• cotton fabric for printing for samples
• cotton fabric for shibori with onion skin dye
• one piece of linen for a target piece,
• all tannins and mordants
• carrier cloths, scoured
• resists for the bundles, to prevent shadow prints
If you have any questions, just email me.
bymaggienaturally.co.uk
