City & Guilds News

Many moons have passed since my last blog post but believe me I have been busy. 

Nine students have completed their City & Guilds courses and I would like to congratulate them for all their hard work.

Level 1 Hand Embroidery - Helen Macintosh and Helen Atkinson

Level 1 Patchwork & Quilting - Anne Wilkinson, Wendy Harkness, Sue Ives, Clare Raymond Barker and Jon Massey

Level 2 Patchwork & Quilting - Paula Tidman and Deborah Moore.

Their work has been a joy to go through and I look forward to seeing them progress in the future. I will post pictures of their work soon.

Meanwhile I have been kept on my toes my by current City & Guilds students. 
We have been having wonderful messy days in my home studio, printing, silk screen, thermofax, mono printing and block printing. We have also been stencilling and using discharge pastes. 

We are busy again this weekend and I am amazed at all the work that my students produce in such a short time.

Bev

Workshop with Dionne Swift

A few of my sketchbook pages 

What a lovely day at the NEC visiting the Fashion Embroidery & Stitch show at the NEC, Birmingham.
Three shows in one with Hobbycrafts and Sewing for Pleasure and Fashion, embroidery & Stitch there was certainly much to see and lots to tempt us into buying.

I was lucky enough  to get a space on Dionne Swift's Silk Screen printing  on-stand workshop.

Having recently done Dionne's
online sketchbook workshop
I was keen to meet her and thank her for all the useful information she provided us with on the course. Many new ideas have come from the course and I will be developing them over the next few months.

Screen printing With Dionne Swift

It was wonderful to see her devore and screen printing work, and the lovely machine embroidered Coastal Stitches. Embroideries which are full of movement and very atmospheric.

I have not done much Silk screen printing before and was excited to give it a try under Dionne's expert guidance.

We cut our own stencils and used procion dyes thickened with manutex.

My first effort was not very good as I hadn't blended the colours sufficiently. (I have cut the offending part out of the photo but it is the one  on the left minus the leaves).

Learning the basics has given me an appetite for more.
Dionne is also running an Accessible Screen Printing online workshop where she will be going into more detail about the process.

Bev