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Showing posts with label machine embroidery. Show all posts
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Thursday, 18 June 2015

"Extrav-Organza", Talk by Kathleen Laurel Sage


Kathleen Laurel Sage is a freelance textile artist, designer and enthusiastic embroiderer. Her inspirations are captured from carvings and ornate plaster work depicting patterns from nature and from the natural environment around her. Kathleen's fascination for working with organza fabrics has produced work ranging from conventional items through relief to exciting three-dimensional embroidered structures, such as floral vases, fashion accessories and unique jewellery.



In this friendly and relaxed talk, Kathleen outlines her transition from hand-worked embroidery in the form of stump work to machine-embroidered organza. She explains how she works and combines these techniques into dimensional and structural artworks.




Visitors are very welcome to come along to this talk on Friday 3rd July, which starts at 7.00 pm. We meet at St Mary's Church Hall, St Mary's Road, Leamington Spa - there is a map on our How to find us page.  Visitor charge: £5.00

There are also a couple of places available on the follow-up workshop on Saturday 4th July, in which we will make either small bead-like elements to form unique jewellery, or work a panel on a larger scale. If you are interested in this, please contact Jenny:
jennyarcher401@gmail.com

Monday, 18 November 2013

Summer School reminiscences

As we sit huddled against the November cold and damp outside, it's nice to think back to the summer and the really inspiring summer school we had with Linda Miller.  Although early August wasn't exactly blazing with sunshine, it has to be said that it was much warmer and brighter than it is just now!

Two whole days devoted to machine embroidery was a real treat, and I'm sure I can say that we all thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and learned a huge amount from Linda about creating little works of art on our machines.  Linda was extremely patient and always enthusiastic; she managed to see the positive points of some fairly wonky efforts (speaking for myself here), and showed us how to achieve a professional finish to our creations.

You can see from the photos below what a wide variety of subjects people chose to execute, and it's all credit to Linda that she managed to encourage everyone to be brave and go for it!










Linda (standing left) encourages us to 'show and tell' our finished or nearly-finished pieces