Summer School 2006During the summer I attended a summer school for 3 days run by our embroidery teacher, Catherine I thought it was time that I put the work onto my blog for all to see. Last year at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace I went to a 1 hour workshop run by the Fibre Factory which was about using various threads and fabrics to create an embellished piece of embroidery - this was my finished piece.
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This piece gave Catherine the inspiration for the summer school - we started with some source material for the colours - these day lilies were mine
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Then we painted papers with procion dyes - we only had 6 colours to work with - 3 warm colours - golden yellow, vibrant magenta and indigo navy, and 3 cool colours - lemon yellow, scarlet and brilliant blue. We were encouraged to play with the colours, mixing them to achieve colours that we liked and painting them on the paper.
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After we had painted the papers we then space dyed a selection of fabrics and threads.
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Using a picture or selection of pictures as design source material we experimented, again with paper, to develop shapes and ultimately a basis for a design that we could stitch.
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This was my pencil drawing with notes on it - as you can see I'm not the best artist in the world.
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We then started to experiment and sample different techniques and stitches that we might use in our finished piece.
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Then came the fun part of doing the actual stitching - this is the finished article - maybe one day I'll decide what to do with it.
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At the end of the 3 days we laid all our inspiration and experiments out for all to see.
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It was a really nice, relaxing, fun 3 days.