Talk by Hanny Newton - "Embroidery, my story so far"

Members and visitors will be welcome at our talk on Friday 4th November by Hanny Newton, a hand embroiderer with a great love of stitch - especially gold work embroidery.  She loves to find inspiration from the rich tradition of hand embroidery and uses this to find her own contemporary approach to hand stitch.

Hanny studied hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework, and then contemporary craft at Falmouth University, which allowed her to combine her interest in both traditional and modern approaches.

After graduating in the summer of 2014, Hanny was selected for the Embroiderers' Guild Graduate Showcase 2014 and has exhibited nationally since then, including at Handmade in Britain, Art in Action and the Selvedge Spring Fair, and she delivers talks and workshops nationwide.

Visitors are always welcome to come along to talks.  

For details of times and venue, please see 'About our Branch ... How to find us' .

Jean Littlejohn visit, May 2013

One of our recent Branch highlights was Jean Littlejohn's visit. Jean shared her extensive experience of stitch in the Friday talk, when she recounted her journey from art college to Co-President of the Guild, via Friends of the Titanic! Jean stressed the importance of observation and understanding what you want the stitching to do.  

Jean Littlejohn

At the Saturday day school, we benefitted firsthand from her expertise and artist's eye.  

Jean is very generous in her encouragement of tentative stitchers and has boundless enthusiasm for the art and craft of all types of stitch.  Everyone went away with some very useful samples - Jean insisted that we finish at least one piece - and fired with enthusiasm to develop our hand stitching.




See more of Jean's work on the Double Trouble website where you can also purchase books and DVDs by Jean Littlejohn and Jan Beaney. 

Jean Littlejohn