Textiles in Focus

Creative Stitch Suffolk will have a wet studio as part of the Textiles In Focus  http://www.textilesinfocus.com/ event being held for the first time at the new venue of Cambourne Village College from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st February 2016

Annette Morgan www.annettemorgan.co.uk will be demonstrating screen printing and I will be demonstrating discharging and bleaching processes.

We will also have information about the City & Guilds courses starting in September 2016 so please come along and chat to us if you are interested  http://www.creativestitchsuffolk.co.uk/

Annette - example of screenprinted fabrics

From The Earth exhibition

I am delighted that 'From Shawl to Shroud' has been selected for the very first From The Earth exhibition.
This group, set up by Alice Fox and Caroline Bell, are promoting the use of only natural and green processes in textile art. Everything used must be either natural or recycled   www.fromtheearthtextiles.co.uk

Originally made for the Out Of The Fold  gallery at the Knitting and Stitching shows in 2014 my piece is made from recycled calico coffin cover and is rust dyed using recycled sofa springs. Mostly hand stitched.

The exhibition will take place during the month of June in the Mardelybury Gallery, Datchwood, Herts (near ArtVanGo)   www.psarts.co.uk

From shawl to shroud (detail)

Tin Hut Textiles Exhibition at Makit Fenland Fair

The next Tin Hut Textiles Exhibition will be as part of the Makit Fenland Fair in St Ives.  This is a one-day event with several exhibiting groups plus a range of traders, demonstrators and guild stands.

Tin Hut will be showing the 'Seasons' collection, the 'Decay' collection plus some new 3D pieces.

When: 10am-4pm, Saturday 7th November 2015
Where: Burgess Hall, St. Ivo Leisure Centre, Westwood Road, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6WU
How much: £5.00 for adults (under 14s free)

www.makitfairs.com/fenland-fair/

the Tipsy Stitcher

This is a brand new piece - the binding stitched on last night only hours before it was due to be exhibited as usual - made for the Out Of The Fold exhibition at:

Workwise Cavern 4, 

Whiting Street

Bury St Edmunds

Suffolk

from Sat 24th October until Sat 31st October (closed Sunday and Monday) 10am until 4pm

This was a 'Moving On' challenge to take a traditional block - in this case the Drunkards path block - and move it on and make a piece in our own style.  

The Tipsy Stitcher 2015 - black linen wholecloth, discharged and bleached. Machine stitched.

The Tipsy Stitcher (detail)

Out of the Fold Exhibition now open

Applique Frame Quilt

My Ickleton and Fulbourn leisure groups will be tackling an applique frame quilt this term so here is the example I have made to show the sort of thing they can do.  All needle-turn applique so it took ages but I really enjoyed sitting in the autumn sun or (ore often) sitting listening to the rain bounce off the conservatory roof whilst I did all the hand stitching.

Follow the blog to see how the talented ladies of Ickleton and Fulbourn do with this technique.

'Seasons' exhibition now open

The Tin Hut exhibition 'SEASONS' is now open.

Pond Gallery
Snape Maltings
Snape
Aldeburgh
Suffolk

Friday 4th September 2015 - Wed 9th September 2015
From 10am until 5pm each day