9 November 2024
We were treated to a veritable cornucopia of ideas and inspiration by Sue N-M, who brought in an astonishing amount of her own work as well as some beautiful pieces of stitching and beadwork collected from charity shops, including an exquisite Indian embroidered dress.
She explained the many techniques she had used to create interesting and unusual surfaces using stitch, glue and paint, as well as incorporating everything from beads to string, leather, sticks and other natural and man-made materials.
We were introduced to techniques including crashing, foiling and flocking, how to manipulate sinamay and innovative ways of using beads – and so much more!
Diana brought in one of her City & Guilds books – samples of work she’d done on textures – to give us yet more ideas to work with.
We then dispersed around three tables, one working on textures, one on ‘negative spaces’ and one working with beads, sequins and added decorations.
With just 40 minutes to create something with our team leader we then swapped tables – twice – so we really had to focus on what we were doing to get any results at all! Some of us did a whole lot better than others, but it was such a sociable day, we thoroughly enjoyed it even if we didn’t have as much to show as others at the end!
There was a lot of work for Show and Tell too. We all admired beautiful work from Ruth, Janine, Susie, Yvonne, Jane and Liz. Jenny brought in some exquisite open-weave baskets from a recent workshop with Joanne Lamb, and Jane W brought in her samples from our workshop on dyes last month – such beautiful colours.
