Members Take Two

Following the Travelling Book group's presentation (see previous post), members got to work on their own projects, with everyone coming together again in the afternoon for a show-and-tell session.  Here are the photos of some of the pieces created by members at Saturday's members' day.  

Cheryl's design was originally for silk screen prints made a while ago, based on Swedish designers Svenskt Tenn and Josef Frank designs. For the workshop she decided to take an unworked print and do some free machine embroidery (Take 3), using some of her many coloured rayon threads.  A labour-intensive technique, and she says that part way through she was thinking that she should have chosen something smaller!

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3 - the latest version

Elizabeth had stitched this heart previously, but developed it by adding beads and extra stitching: 

Judi's Take 2 was based on an Angie Hughes workshop, Trees Leaves. (The tree was made by stitching across space.) Judi's machine had let her down in the workshop, meaning she didn't complete it, and so she has now recreated it.

Margherita took inspiration from this blue fishes piece to make a more Celtic-inspired one, with machined text on the turmeric-dyed background.

Caroline created a new version of her Moonshine on water piece: Sunrise over water.

Anne based her piece (WIP) on an old photograph, combining techniques from other workshops.

The subtle background to Jenny's depiction of Chesterton Windmill is made up of squares of different white fabrics stitched together, then free machined in circles over each square.

Gill decided to use the technique from Liz Cooksey's 2019 summer school, creating wire forms, but this time incorporating them into a smaller flat piece rather than the original 3D. 

Take 1

The bottom section was made to look like wire grids but was in fact zigzag stitching, and then Gill plans to add seed stitching.

Take 2

Ruth's design started as a plain egg shape on paper, which she exploded into separate shapes, and then translated into fabric and stitch.

  

 
 

Carol also stitched a heart - the red one was a digitised test stitch-out for a ruby wedding cushion in 2006, and the hand stitched rainbow heart is her second take.   

What a wonderful collection of work, and such a wide range of techniques and ideas!  

If you haven't yet sent a pic of your piece, please don't hold back.  There's no limit to the amount we can post on the blog.  

New email address is: it@warwickshirestitchers.org.uk, but the old one will still work, too.