Our November meeting began with a very wide-ranging talk from Theresa
Saxon about her stitching life, which she called “Kids, Kits and
Magazines”! Theresa brought a plethora of finished works, which she had
created over the years; from beautiful children’s dresses and dungarees
decorated with appliqué, to complicated kits and designs from magazines.
She talked about how she started by making clothes, then moved through phases of crocheting and using kits for embroidery. She gave an amusing account of her initial, thwarted, intention to branch into quilting. However, she succeeded in the end and brought with her a variety of beautiful quilts made for her family. Her talk described how her stitching projects linked into her family and work life and we were
all amazed that, with a husband, four children and a career, she had managed to create
so much, and that so many items had survived numerous house-moves between continents!!
Despite Theresa's saying in her talk about the importance of
kits and
magazine project instructions for her, she is also very clearly a
creative
embroiderer designing her own projects and this came out in the workshop
which
followed, where Theresa explained to the group how to create a variety
of
backgrounds by layering chiffon, tulle netting and
scraps of
fabric and thread on to a cotton base. Theresa provided a wide variety
of
bonding agents for the group to experiment with and an
information sheet, which will prove extremely useful.
The attached images illustrate just how much members got out of Theresa’s workshop and how much was produced in a short time!!
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| Doesn't it make your fingers itch?! |
