Vintage Postcards workshop - places available

Saturday 8th July 10.00 - 4.00

This workshop by Janet Humphrey will focus on using a blank vintage postcard pre-printed on to fabric (which Janet will supply).  Members will embellish the postcard with images of birds, butterflies, flowers etc., and then add texture with delicate hand embroidery: French knots, seeding, stem stitch and shading.

There are still a couple of places left on this workshop.  If you are interested, please contact
jennyarcher401@gmail.com or 07715664084 / 01926 338987 (please leave a message)

Please note: there will be an extra charge of £1.00 per student per postcard.

About Janet Humphrey

After gaining a C&G certificate from South Nottingham College, Janet went on to join the Derbyshire based ‘Living Threads’ group. She has exhibited at various venues including ‘Stitching for Pleasure’ shows at the NEC, ‘Fashion Embroidery & Stitch shows at Harrogate, National Trust Properties and the Uttoxeter and Malvern Quilt shows. She is an enthusiastic tutor, keen to promote traditional skills and runs workshops for guilds, colleges and textile groups. Her work usually has an historical theme, often featuring hand dyed lace and she also likes to incorporate vintage images, fabrics and trims.

JanetHumphrey.co.uk

Exhibition of Handmade Cards

Reminder to Leamington members: 
Please bring your cards for the exhibition to the talk / workshop in July.

"Stitch Draw" workshop

The evening before our workshop, Rosie James gave us a fascinating talk - illustrated with lots of photos and beautiful samples - on her progress from print specialist, through drawing and stitch, photography and screen printing, and the influences of painting and sculpture, to her current focus on stitched drawing.  (See post below, 29 May.)  You may have seen Rosie's striking hangings at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC, among other venues.

The workshop started with some relatively simple exercises, all done with black thread on white fabric, and leaving long tails of thread hanging on the surface.

We progressed through further exercises, which included stitching an image traced onto tissue paper:

stitching figures drawn directly onto transparent fabric - see right-hand figure in the photo below:  

(It could be quite tricky to follow the drawn lines when looking through the fabric!)

and images built up with appliquéd coloured fabric:

It was a challenging, interesting and very enjoyable day, and Rosie was a generous and very supportive tutor.  We certainly didn't waste any time, and came away with some great samples.

➢ Perhaps we will be seeing a few examples of this technique on some stitched cards for our Greeting Cards exhibition at Leamington Library (31 July - 13 August)  .....