Three Silk Corners - Lynn Wright, Sue Fletcher, Sue Tyldesley February Meeting 2024

 

By the Fireside - Raffle February Meeting

 

Finished Pieces of Work

Another completed jellyfish, this time embroidered by Sandra. She has used cream and yellow for the jellyfish. The stitches have been varied by working sorbello stitch in different thicknesses of thread thus building up texture.

She has embroidered strips of yellow sheer to build up the central part of the tentacles and cream sorbello stitch for the outer tentacles. Bubbles have been added to the background to add interest.

Thank you Sandra.

Alison has finished her lovely, brightly coloured, jellyfish using fly stitch. She has varied the stitch by placing them close together or in groups or on their own.

I particularly like the way the body of the jellyfish has been worked alternately in red and white stitches adding texture to the piece.

The tentacles have been worked in a variety of fly stitches. Thank you Alison, he will brighten up a cold, grey winter's day.

Wendy B has just finished making a beautiful cushion, from a self-made funky foam stamp that she printed with paint onto fabric. She used shades of turquoise and a pale ochre for a contrast. The pattern is hexagonal which has then been highlighted in stitch.

The panel was then cut out and attached to plain turquoise edging and attached to a backing to make a cushion.

 It looks lovely against  the brown of the chair. Thank you Wendy for sharing it with us.

Christina has finished her one stitch embroidery of a delightful cat using fly stitch in a variety of ways. When looking at the cat you cannot help but smile.

If you look closely you can see all the different ways the fly stitch has been worked: close together, wide apart, narrow and long, short and fat etc building up the texture on the cat and flower.

Thank you Christina he is wonderful and when I look at him he would make a lovely picture for a Birthday card.

Take One Stitch - Wendy Barrington January Meeting 2024

 Wendy arrived laden down with a colourful array of threads of varying thickness, neatly packed together in plaited skeins.

Wendy explained that we were going to choose one stitch and we would be working it in a variety of ways, thinking about the following:

-different sizes of stitch

-different thickness of threads

-as a line stitch

-as a single stitch

-varying colour

-over stitching

Wendy had completed a pretty flower embroidery in fly stitch to demonstrate how by varying the stitch a whole picture can be built up with the individual items looking completely different.

Members began embroidering with enthusiasm "playing" with their chosen stitch.

Wendy explained that she had printed pictures for us to choose and then embroider them with just one stitch but varying it to fit the subject.

After "playing" members chose the picture  they wished to embroider.

They chose the stitch and began to build up their picture using their stitch in a variety of ways. Slowly very interesting stitching began to emerge.

At the end of the session we brought our embroideries together so that we could look at what other members has done.

After an enjoyable session we took the embroideries home to finish and hopefully bring them back next month completed.

A big thank you to Wendy for inspiring us and putting all the items we would need in place to support us through our stitching.

Thank you Wendy.