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Embroidered Boxes - Anne Brooke October meeting 2023

 I have just returned from a wonderful workshop making embroidered boxes with Anne Brooke. Anne arrived with a diverse array of embroidered boxes to inspire us in our own work and she stressed that whatever we did would belong to us artistically. She also brought a lot of "stuff "for us to use.

She demonstrated how to start the box by cutting out six 10cm. squares of paper and attaching them to iron on interfacing in the shape of a cube net [" a Jesus cross"] The cross was then trimmed and she zig-zagged around the edges.

We all set to work making our nets with enthusiasm and zigzagging the edges in our chosen colours.

Anne then demonstrated how to decorate  the faces of the box with paper, especially wall paper, thinking about colour and shape. She then suggested ways of machine stitching the paper pieces so that the faces had an affinity.

As members started to glue their papers each one was different in colour, texture and stitch and each member used their own artistic talents.

Anne then demonstrated how to attach the lining and stiffen it with pelmet vilene and zig-zag the sides together to make a box including the tie for the closing mechanism.

We all took our flat boxes home to complete by adding hand stitching, beads, buttons and then zig-zagging the sides together. The boxes, still flat, looked fantastic spread out on the table and they will be a joy to see when finished.

A big thank you goes to Anne for her enthusiasm, encouragement, explanations and ideas.

We all went home full of ideas on how we were going to finish our boxes.