Christmas Pop-up Arts Shop, 4 - 6 December

 

Please send your photos for the Christmas Jolly ...

🎄 Photo reminder 🎄

Please share photos of anything you have made for Christmas 

- from jumpers to bags to decorations to anything else at all -

for the Christmas Jolly slideshow.

We're all dying to see what everyone has been busy making - and get more ideas!

Please send photos to: leamingtondistrictprogsec@embroiderersguild.co.uk

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Also delighted to share more of our members' work:

A very tactile hoop created by Mary on Zara's Creative Stitches course:

Margherita's completed piece following Haf Weighton's workshop:

which depicts an Italian village near Amalfi

Wendy's illuminated letter P from Anne Griffith's workshop:

Thank you all for giving us the chance to see your makes.

Illuminated Letters by members

Anne Griffith's talk and demo were very timely and appropriate for the season, and it's great to realise that fabulous designs can be produced from such humble materials as tomato puree tubes.

Anne generously provided us with templates and design ideas to get us started, and members present for the afternoon show-and-tell session had produced some impressive pieces. Anne's comment was that people working on their own seemed to have made much quicker progress during the morning than if we had been in a group - a salutary thought!

Thank you to members who sent their photos:

Carol:

Liz:

Sue:

Jenny (painted on a fine cotton using acrylic paint and Lumiere metallic acrylics):

Margherita:

Gill:

Gill says she learned that next time she would outline her letter in a much paler colour.  She adds that she is putting her sample in her lockdown book - this is the cover (made on an embroidery attachment - not free machined, in case you were wondering): 

Finally, following up on the discussion about the use of Ormoline, Anne sent a photo of her bottle for clarification: