Finished pieces of Work

 Janet has finished her jewel-like flower wreath using rich shades of purple and mauve. She has couched a boucle thread and increased the texture with French knots.

 The wreath has been finished with a bow of purple and green picking up the shades in the stitching.

Thank you Janet for a very pretty and colourful wreath

Sandra has finished her wreath and with the addition of a couple more embroidered circles has used it to decorate the lid of a box. The edges are decorated with handmade twisted braids.

She has embroidered a bullion knot rose as a centre piece on the lid and another one in the centre of the embroidered band.

Thank you Sandra

Flower Wreath - Kate Slaughter June Meeting 2025

 Kate had brought a wonderful array of brightly coloured and finely stitched flower wreaths to show us what we would be making. See below.

Kate advised us to use an 8ins. square of a neutral background fabric and place it in our ring. We then tacked around a doughnut shape so that we knew where to place our stitching.

 Kate demonstrated how to lay our boucle thread and couch in down in a meandering style going around the shape a few times until most "holes" were covered.

Members chose a wonderful array of colours to begin their couching.

Kate went from table to table demonstrating and  making suggestions to improve our outcomes. 

Once the couching had been finished we then filled up the "tiny holes" with French knots and bullion stitches. increasing the texture and depth of colour.

Tiny beads, buttons and ribbon roses were added to complete the texture  and beautiful jewel-like wreaths began to emerge.

Most of our members were either finished or had nearly finished their wreath which they took home to complete and we hope to see them soon. It was another fun workshop which our members enjoyed.

A big thank you goes to Kate for leading the workshop and supporting us through the making of the Flower Wreaths which was greatly enjoyed.

Flower Wreath - Kate Slaughter June Meeting 2025

 

Finished Pieces of Work

Sandra has finished her little book which has been joined together with handmade buttons and braids.

The internal pages have been embroidered by hand in neutral shades and lined with a neutral fabric with a pop of ochre. 

Ochre has been picked up to stitch the edges of the pages.

Thank you Sandra for your book.

Christina has finished three beautiful pages of her Little Embroidered Work Book. 

She has used pieces of fabric and lace in the backgrounds and integrated with embroidery stitches. Seed heads have been embroidered in the foreground as highlights of the page.

The neutral palette draws all the work together.

Thank you Christina for your lovely pages.

A Midsummer Nights Dream - Raffle June 2025

 

Finished Pieces of Work

 

Joan has finished her embroidery on paper and produced a beautiful picture of blue and yellow flowers amongst green foliage.

She has used machine embroidery to stitch the background and the flowers and then finished off the flowers with hand straight stitching and French knots.

It is wonderful and will look bright and cheery hung on her wall.

Thank you Joan.

Rachael has made a delicate little piece of woodland before the leaves appear, carpeted with bluebells and wood anemones.

She has paid particular attention to the bark on the tree trunks making them look textured covered with moss and lichens.

Thank you Rachael for a pretty piece.

Sandra has made an attractive embroidery on paper which is partially abstract. She has linked various geometric shapes in different forms, circles , squares, crosses as well as leaves that have been stamped and embroidered.

Thank you Sandra for your piece.

Christina has made a delightful paper collage of a wet boggy area and then hand stitched into it to add texture and focal points.

The way the water has been collaged and stitched gives depth, movement and reflection to the piece.

Thank you Christina.

Christina has finished a second embroidered paper piece and it is totally different to her first piece being partially geometric and brightly coloured.

The background has  a pattern on it and then Christina has highlighted the shapes by hand embroidering circles and lines linking the foreground with the background.

Thank you Christina.

Denise has finished her beautiful jellyfish with long flowing tentacles using ribbon and fly stitch.

By making the arms of the fly stitch different lengths it gives the tentacles movement.

She has added texture to the medusa with hand stitching.

Thank you Denise for your colourful piece.

Denise has also finished her pretty blackwork and turned it into a useful needle case.

She has embroidered a wide range of patterns very neatly and precisely and used colour to produce a totally different effect to black.

Thank you Denise for your needle case.