The first was with the Textile Study Group and tutor Gwen Hedley. It as just perfect for me, wrapping and playing around with construction. After an initial evening of colouring cloth, paper and thread with acrylic paint (my kind of colouring, Gwen showed us some of her techniques for wrapping, creating 'textiles' and assembling items.
i loved this workshop as she then let us decide on what we wanted to do - so grown up and not prescriptive. As usual i came home with only a very few samples but i feel i have learnt such a lot.
i chose to construct some samples using soluble sandwiches.
i had brought with me some black card pieces, no idea where i got them from and i assume they might be waste product? anyway the plan was to create a complete linked 'piece' by placing items on a sticky water soluble surface and then covering with a thin transparent water soluble layer that you stitch into. i started by wrapping each piece with thread to create substance to link into. the dark running stitches are horse hairs and then i used transparent nylon thread to link with the black 'dots' making sure all was linked together and knots joined the threads where they crossed over.
after washing away the soluble papers what was left is a delicate, light mesh. i am soooo happy with this but it did take a time!
i can remember making samples of machine embroidery on this type of paper and hated it; this is much more ME.
i then created another with pine needles and pieces of umbrella metal.
the pencil is there for scale. this time i used cross linking.
my second Summer School was with Distant Stitch and tutor Alice Fox. not in my comfort zone but i enjoyed it thoroughly. collecting leaves for eco dyeing (botanical contact printing), printing and making inks/ dyes from what we had around us.
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