Tutor Sarah Maddison
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This two-day workshop is suitable for those with experience with their sewing machine
Workshop Details
Moving on from previous Autumn and Summer field mixed-media landscapes, join Sarah to create a new piece based on iconic Bluebell woods to herald Spring. We will combine paint and fabrics to create your own landscape art. The tutor will provide a basic fabric kit to get you started but it’s always good to add to it from your own stashes.
Skills / Techniques Covered
We will use acrylics to create your sky and then using different textiles and various stitching techniques – straight stitching, free motion machine embroidery - you will create your Bluebell patch and then further embellish the pieces with hand stitching, embroidery and beads. You will create either a long portrait version or a wide narrow landscape.
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will
be £15, payable to the tutor during the workshop.
Students - please bring with you:
The tutor will supply the basic fabrics you will need but you may wish to bring some fabrics in an spring/bluebell wood palette which can be added to provide shape or texture. These could include silks, hessian, velvet, hand dyed felts, organzas – you will only tiny amounts, so please check your fabric stashes first!
If you have your own acrylic paints and wish to bring them, please feel free – but please do not buy any specially, as the tutor will have them.
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This two-day workshop is suitable for those with experience with their sewing machine
Workshop Details
Moving on from previous Autumn and Summer field mixed-media landscapes, join Sarah to create a new piece based on iconic Bluebell woods to herald Spring. We will combine paint and fabrics to create your own landscape art. The tutor will provide a basic fabric kit to get you started but it’s always good to add to it from your own stashes.
Skills / Techniques Covered
We will use acrylics to create your sky and then using different textiles and various stitching techniques – straight stitching, free motion machine embroidery - you will create your Bluebell patch and then further embellish the pieces with hand stitching, embroidery and beads. You will create either a long portrait version or a wide narrow landscape.
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will
be £15, payable to the tutor during the workshop.
Students - please bring with you:
- Sewing Machine – must be fully working and ready to use and must be one you are familiar with.
- You must be able to lower your feed dogs and you will need a free motion embroidery or darning foot and a normal straight stitch foot.
- A selection of photo images of Bluebells, either taken yourself or from magazines that can be used for reference.
- A selection of machine needles - universal and embroidery
- Various hand sewing needles which can be used with a variety of thread weights.
- Ruler
- Tape measure/ pins
- Scissors for cutting fabric/thread
- Drawing pens or pencils and eraser
- A variety of threads suitable for your machine and embroidery floss – you may also wish to bring some metallic threads. These should be in the same palette or for a contrast.
- Any beads you may have in your stash in relevant colours
The tutor will supply the basic fabrics you will need but you may wish to bring some fabrics in an spring/bluebell wood palette which can be added to provide shape or texture. These could include silks, hessian, velvet, hand dyed felts, organzas – you will only tiny amounts, so please check your fabric stashes first!
If you have your own acrylic paints and wish to bring them, please feel free – but please do not buy any specially, as the tutor will have them.
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.