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.

A Little Stitched Workbook - Rachael Margeson May Meeting 2025

 Rachael one of our own members led the workshop today on making a little embroidered book. She brought some very pretty samples of little books, a concertina book and individual framed page [pictures below]. The choice was ours but most members decided to have a go at the little embroidered book with one member choosing a concertina book.

Rachael inspired us by talking about the different pages in her books and how they had been achieved.

She suggested that we stick to neutral colours and embroider seedheads over/beside the pieces of fabric and lace.

To help us out with the seedheads she had produced some  stylised drawings of seedheads and suggested that we had a go at drawing them first,  to help with muscle memory when embroidering them.

We were all raring to go and cut out our pages and began auditioning fabrics and threads.

We began by attaching some of the fabric and lace and then embroidering seedheads onto the pages using stitches such as stem stitch, chain, running, lazy daisy etc..

We were aiming for a front and back cover and approximately 5 pages which would then be sewn together to make a book.

By home time most members had partially made a couple of pages but it dawned on us all despite the size of the book it was going to take quite a while to complete.

 Hopefully they will be finished some time in the future!

It was an enjoyable and fun day and our thanks go to Rachael for inspiring us, suggesting stitches for seedheads, showing us how to put the book together and offering guidance when needed.

Thanks again Rachael for an inspiring day.