City and Guilds Creative Textiles

The above embroidered pictures are made by Bev as part of her

Level Two City and Guilds for Machine Embroidery in

Creative Textiles.

Nineteen Level Two students have passed with me this year.

So, Congratulations to them for a year of fun, hard work and

experimenting.

See more of the students work by visiting 

HERE

I teach City and Guilds Creative Textiles in 

Machine Embroidery and Patchwork and Quilting from Level One 

through to Degree.

Courses are available throughout the year, so if you are interested

please contact me.

I now teach the courses at The Old Art Room Swaffham

in my fully equipt Art Studio at The Art, Craft, Antiques and Cultural Centre

in Swaffham.

The centre was once the old Sixth Form College.

Jeanette's Finished Downton Abbey Embroidered Picture

Jeanette is working on a selection of pages for an Embroidered Book.

This is the Downton Abbey front page. She is now working

on the reverse of it, the interior of a 'Country House'.

Jeanette's work is a layered and complex work of embroidered art.

See more of her work by clicking on the written labels below.

City and Guilds Textiles Begins

On the 28th of March the City and Guilds eight week Level One for Machine Embroidery and Patchwork and Quilting started with me @The Gallery. 19 students all excited and apprehensive started their venture into Textiles Creative Diplomas, (that's the title for these courses and how they are grouped). For eight weeks they will have a taster of different textile techniques related to the skill they have chosen, Machine Embroidery or Patchwork and Quilting. Both have creative fabric decoration and samples to produce as well as a file or sketchbook as a record of what they are learning. I am one of those tutors who prefers to encourage students to make samples and explore techniques then put them in a fabric book rather than in plastic pockets! The books become heirlooms in their own right and are added to regularly. I have seen this with previous students of mine. With two groups technically going on in the same classroom I have to be very organised but what I have found before that there is a cross fertilisation of ideas and techniques between the groups and all benefit because they incorporate skills that they would not necessary try before. It makes for more creative and imaginative work.
The course has now finished with 18 completing the course. It was a fun and very creative eight weeks the photographs of the class and their books on my website. I will post more of the classes as I continue to update my blog.
Click to see photographs www.art2inspire.co.uk

Jeanetta Sculpiturio

I put on exhibit @The Gallery my new mixed media sculpture,

'Jeanetta Sculpiturio'.

It is a column 6ft tall and 16' wide.

Inspired by architecture, Venice,

intricate surfaces, jewellery and

Jeanette, one of my students!

Jeanette makes wonderful mixed media textile pieces

such as 'Bolliwood' and 'Leaves'.

See HERE

She also makes

intricate textile boxes.

HERE

Jeanette starts in a similar way to I do, with the inspiration.

Then collects lots of medias together and then compiles

ideas and sections together.

Where we differ and what makes me chuckle is,

Jeanette hates painting and getting messy!

I love paint,inks and getting stuck in with gooeyness!

I will work on this with her as she has expressed

that she wants to make a section of the sculpture

which has painted lace arches on, so we shall see!

See more of her work by clicking on the written label below.

Embroidered Leaves Wall Hanging Finished

Jeanette put the last finishing touches to her

'Embroidered Leaves Wall Hanging', with the

soldering iron and WOW!

doesn't it look amazing?

It is now finished and she left it at

The Gallery for Haydn to frame it ready

to hang in The Gallery Art Space.

Well done! Jeanette for such

beautiful work.

See how this has progressed by clicking on

the written labels below this post,

especially the word leaves .

See more of what goes on at The Gallery

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

Jeanette working in mixed media

This week @The Gallery, Jeanette started using the

soldering iron on the edges of her Leaves Wall Hanging.

It is starting to take on a 3D effect but needs

a focus of interest.

Nearly there but not quite!

See more of Jeanette's wall hanging by

clicking the labels below.

Jeanette is building up her picture with the mixed media

textile leaves now.

You sometimes get to a stage where you can't see where

a piece is going or how to move it on.

When she un wrapped it there was a wow! from those

in the Gallery but Jeanette wasn't happy with how the piece

looked. We analysed it and it was too flat.

and needed a focus.

Yes, it looked like falling leaves but it needed a focal point

and lift. Jeanette and I spent a few hours

working out focal areas and making the piece 3D.

Jeanette makes fantastic 3D textile artworks.

her most recent, "Bolliwood", was entered into an art show

and was well received.

Keep persevering Jeanette it is working!

Click on the bolliwood label below or the others to see some

of Jeanette's work.

Mixed Media Machine Embroidered Tree

Pat has also finished and had framed one of her Mixed Media

machine Embroidered Trees.

Isn't it wonderful?

Pat has transferred her skills as a painter beautifully

into mixed media textiles.

See more of her textiles by clicking the written labels below.

Machine Stitches and Tips

With all the fun happening there is some serious creating too!

here Ann is machine quilting, notice her good posture.

TIPS: Always sit in a good chair with good support,

add a cushion where necessary.

Your machine should be in front of you an inch away from the edge

of the table and the needle directly in front of wear your nose

is looking.

Place your hands n a triangle shape around your needle,

this defines a quilting area.

From time to time stop and wiggle your shoulders up and down

and smile :), loosen your facial muscles too.

It is surprising what we tension when we are

concerntrating.

Have regular breaks to relieve muscles and brain.

Open up the work and smooth out front and back,

re- pin or baste if necessary.

See more of my quilts and mixed textiles on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Machine Embroidered Leaves

Jeanette is machine stitching the mixed media background

for the leaves to be attached to and making lots more leaves and

cords to embellish with.

There are so many techniques that Jeanette has used

on this mixed media wallhanging so far.

See more of the leaves and machine embroidery

by clicking on the written labels below.

Gallery day 14th June 2011

Gallery Day was a bit quiet this week as some of the group

were on holiday.

Pat and Sylvia took the opportunity to work on the machines and

get to grips with new techniques.

The patchwork square above is 19" by 19" and

was made out of the scraps from one of my 50p bags.

It took Sylvia an hour to choose where to put the pieces

and sew it together which seemed like magic to the others!

Sylvia loves patchwork and is now enjoying real

high colour in her work.

I wonder where that comes from?

See more of the Gallery at

www.thegalleryderenam.co.uk

Embroided Mixed Media Tree

Pat has been away for a few weeks but look what she

has been making and it is ready for framing.

It is a single mixed media tree.

She is still working on the layering of her

wall hanging which contains

four similar trees to the one above.

See more by clicking the labels below.

Machine Embroidered Leaves

Jeanette's new mixed media textile work is based on Autumn Leaves and

is inspired by a community wallhanging picture she saw in a magazine.

She wants to learn many different ways of making leaves and

Next week is printing and painting the background

fabric to the work and designing more foliage.

See more of Jeanette's work by clicking on the labels below.

Machine Embroidered Leaves

Jeannette is starting a new project, a wall hanging

containing all different mixed media layered leaves.

There are many different techniques she wants to learn

and improve on ones that she has touched on in the past.

Here are some of the ones she made in her session.

The sessions @ The Gallery are approximately

2, 2 and a half hours long and some stay all day!

See more textiles in my portfolio pages on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Lace Bowls

Machine Embroidered Tree (Blue)

Dyed, stamped, inked and stitched embellished Tree.

See more stitch and embellishment on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Machine Embroidery Tree

Machine Embroidery