Today’s meeting was a very entertaining talk by Anne Brooke about her journey through art and sewing on paper to the intricacies of sewing circles including embroidery rings in her current fabric embroideries. The self confessed “wobble gob” brought many examples of her work and enthusiastically described the thought behind them.
On Tuesday 3rd June Anne Brooke will be sharing her talk “For the Love of Stitch.
Anne is a textile artist who wants to share her love of stitch and passion for needle and thread. You can follow her on social media and her hanndmade sessions kept me sane during lockdown.
See www.annebrooke.co.uk
#4THELOVEOFSTITCH
This will be held on Wednesday 4th June from 10 am to 4pm
All the materials are provided on this workshop. Just bring a packed lunch.
If you want to attend and have not already booked a place get in touch with Gail on 7872 129618 or gailndell@hotmail.com as the next meeting isn’t until the day before this workshop. I think the cost is £40 for members, £45 for non members, but Gail will confirm.
You should have all paid your subs by now but for anyone still wanting to pay here are the details :
£30
Bank sort code 20 57 44
Account 23785971
Add your name and subs.
Programme for the rest of the year:
Meetings at the library, most workshops at the United Reformed Church Hall.
Many thanks to Ruth and Yvonne for a brilliant workshop showing us how to make realistic flowers in embroidery without having to be to technically exact. Lovely work.
At the meeting on May 6th we will be learning how to embroider flowers such as hollyhocks, digitalis and delphiniums using French knots. This is a hands on session so please bring your usual sewing kit and an embroidery frame. Material will be provided.
We meet upstairs in Alsager library on the first Tuesday of the month at two pm. Visitors welcome.
Just a reminder that subs are due in May. You can bring cash or cheques to the next meeting on 6th May or pay by BACS.
Amount £30
Code 20-57-44
Account number 23785971
Name Alsager Creative Stitchers
Catherine entertained us with slides of her work, many of which have won prizes, and explained her way of working. She predominately uses red for her lettering because of the red rose of Lancashire, the county she is from.
She also brought along many of her pieces of work which were much admired with a sense of wonder that anything so small could be so neat.
On Saturday 12th April we have a workshop with Emily Notman. As usual the workshop will be held at the United Reformed Church hall on Brookhouse Road Alsager from 10am to 4pm. Tea and coffee provided but please bring a packed lunch and an apron. You will be using paint.
Emily Notman is a textile artist who runs workshops for all levels of experience and expertise.
Catherine Hill will be giving a talk on “A Way With Words”
Catherine is a self taught embroiderer and wordsmith. Her work centres around red hand-embroidered text which she uses to tell a story, share poetry, or convey a shared experience.
Some pieces incorporate her childhood memories growing up in the 1970’s, each hand stitched in vintage Sylko red thread as a nod to the red rose of her home county of Lancashire.
She is a multi-award winning artist who has exhibited across the UK and worldwide.
A fascinating talk by Sarah based on the clothing itemised in a 1624(?) will of a spinster of means, comfortable off, but not noble or excessively wealthy. She showed us slides picking out the development of outfits from the late sixteenth century into the early seventeenth century. Wrought linens were the underclothes that had been embroidered or “wrought “.
Natural Collections 8th March 10-4
Workshops are held at the United Reformed Church Hall, Brookhouse Road, Alsager, ST7 2PA.
The cost for members is £40
Taking observations from nature Liz will explore and experiment with an eclectic mix of media, materials and techniques. Using wrapping and binding with fine hand dyed threads and fabrics, hand stitching for embellishment along with fragments of paper and print she will show you how to combine with wire to give structure, form and shape.
Liz provides a kit with threads , fabrics, prepared wire stems and a print out.
You need to bring small sharp scissors, any thread or fabric you might like to include (only tiny snippets) and your lunch.
The next meeting is a talk by Sarah Thursfield entitled Wrought Linens.
Sarah studies and teaches the cut and construction of clothing from wrapped cloth to fitted pattern and from bone needle to sewing machine.
Her research field is late prehistoric and medieval dress, also the development of linen garments into the nineteenth century.
She is the author of ‘The Medieval Tailor’s Assistant, Common Garments 1100 - 1480’
Sarah has been supplying clothing for re-enactment for many years. A professional craftsman and an amateur historian she uses archaeological and historical sources to reconstruct clothing technology from prehistory onwards. She regularly teaches lecturers, heritage professionals and re-enactors, and contributes to costume publications.
We meet regularly on the first Tuesday of the month upstairs in Alsager Library.
We try to arrive at 1.45 so we are ready for a prompt 2pm start. We generally have a sales table and details of the next workshop. Workshops are held on a Saturday in the United Reformed Church Hall, Alsager, 10am to 4pm.
Really good workshop with lots of fantastic fabric to choose from. Nikki’s instructions were great and her work a real inspiration. We nearly all managed to have our creatures almost finished and on a wire frame by the end of the session.
Work in progress
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