Maria Thomas's Friday evening talk gave us a fascinating overview of the ups and downs of her personal stitch journey, which she illustrated with copious examples of her work. This was followed on Saturday with a workshop based on the mixed media quilting techniques Maria uses in her work.
As you can see, we had all come armed with a not inconsiderable quantity of papers, dressmaking patterns, food labels and fabric scraps,
which, under Maria's guidance, we proceeded to laminate, stick and arrange into a roughly log cabin style patchwork panel. Sewing pattern tissue was adhered with emulsion paint to fabric for strength, while copious amounts of PVA were used to create a quilt 'sandwich' of paper/fabric/paper.
Once we had tinkered with the layout and got it to our liking, out came the sewing machines for the quilting part.
There's no doubt further stitching and finishing to be done at home, but we had a super day 'playing' with our paper quilt panels, and it will be a good technique to carry forward.
At the end of the session we laid out all our panels together:
and Maria photographed our work for posterity ...
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