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Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
I am a textile artist living on the Suffolk Essex border. I am a member of the Out of the Fold Textile Group and East Anglian Stitched Textiles (EAST) I am the Principal Tutor for Creative Stitch which offers courses in Creative Patchwork and Quilting and Creative Stitch Textiles. I teach each year at the Knitting & Stitching Shows and Festival of Quilts. I also offer workshops and talks to groups throughout the UK in person and via zoom. I am also a member of the QGBI and the specialist Contemporary Quilt Group and STARS (formerly Suffolk West Embroiderers Guild)

Tuesday 20 September 2016

Ebb and Flow pieces

In the rush to complete the pieces for the Tin Hut Textiles exhibition I forgot to take photos. So now the exhibition is over here are the three hangings on the theme of Ebb and Flow.......
Ebb and Flow. Black linen wholecloth discharged bleached and stitched

Ebb and Flow detail

Ebb and Flow. Inspired by ripples in the sand at beautiful Druridge Bay.
Recylcled calico coffin cover, rusted and handstitched

Ebb and Flow inspired by the lovely textures of the beach and dunes of Waxham Sands.
Artic wool felt embellished, shrunk, dyed and stitched

Waxham Sands detail

Monday 19 September 2016

Texture Adventures in Stitch Magazine

Oct/Nov 2016 issue of Stitch magazine 
Very excited to have a project featured in Stitch magazine. This is the Texture Adventures technique which I designed in 2012 and have been teaching at workshops ever since.

I also sell packs with all the materials needed to make an 8" panel.  These are £8.00 plus VAT. Please contact me on maryelmcintosh@gmail.com if you would like to order one. Available in lots of different colourways.
 It produces reliably good results and is  good introduction to free machine sewing.

The combination of machine and hand stitching makes it a popular workshop with embroiderers

Saturday 3 September 2016

Ebb and Flow Exhibition is now OPEN


Suffolk West Embroiderers' Guild first exhibition

25 members of the Suffolk West branch made work on the theme of Landscapes and Gardens as part of the year long celebration of the 300th anniversary of Capability Brown.
Hylands House set in grounds designed by Humphrey Repton

Work by members of Suffolk West Embroiderers' Guild



Our exhibition opens on Sunday 4th September in the upstairs gallery of the Stables Visitor Centre, Hylands Park, London Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 8WQ


Friday 2 September 2016

Ebb and Flow exhibition by Tin Hut Textiles

Members of Tin Hut Textiles have made textile fish in their own individual styles to be displayed in a full size trawler net suspended from the ceiling of the Pond Gallery at Snape Maltings. Here are just a few of them to whet your appetite for the exhibition which will also show the Snape inspired work created for the Blackthorpe Barn exhibition along with a body of brand new work inspired by the theme 'Ebb and Flow'

Dates: 2nd - 7th Sept 2016
Times: 10am - 5pm each day
Venue: Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP17 1SR



Fantasy fish by Carol Gurney

Pouty Pike by Kingsley Thompson

A veritable shoal by Annette Morgan
My fish is..........still a work in progress so you will need to visit the exhibition to see him for real

Workshops at Festival of Quilts

As well as having my usual Quilting in Action stand at Festival of Quilts I also taught three workshops there for the first time.
My Quilting in Action stand QIA7
 Many thanks to everyone who looked after my stand while I was teaching. Cynthia and Jean on Friday, Pam and Teresa on Saturday and Lynette on Sunday.

Results from the 3 hour Texture Adventures workshop on Friday

The international set of ladies with their TA pieces - we had visitors from all parts of the UK and from Germany and Finland 

The results from the Layered Landscape workshop on Saturday - a veritable meadow of poppy fields

The paper mania sunflower results from the Sunday workshop

The paper mania girls show off their pieces