"Appliqué and Hand-stitched Portraits with Sue Stone
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| Sue's self-potrait |
The weekend got off to an inauspicious start with Sue Stone's not being able to get to the Island in time to give her talk “Woman with Fish” on the Friday evening. Because a maintenance van had run into the Flybe plane at Manchester, poor Sue was transferred to Liverpool and did not arrive on the Island until gone 9 p.m.! This meant that we had to come up with something at short notice, so, for those who attended, we had a relaxed and sociable ‘social stitching’ evening. However, without Sue, the evening ended early.
From then on things improved spectacularly and the two-day workshop and the rest of the weekend were a huge
success.
Eleven members had booked on Sue’s two-day workshop “Appliqué and
Hand Stitched Portraits” which was held at the Braaid Hall and everybody turned
up nice and early, which was a sign of things to come, as 4 o’clock came and there
was hardly a stir from anyone to put down our stitching and go home. The next morning everybody once again came early and we were still busy
stitching at 3.45 and only stopped in order to display the results of our
weekend! Normally by 3 o’clock people are tired and starting to put work
away – even for a one-day workshop!
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| Impossible to stop! |
Sue began by explaining her technique and then how we should
transfer our image to the fabric using tissue paper and stitch. She then
spoke to each of us individually to advise about our image choices and how to tackle our piece so by lunchtime we were all well underway with our
stitching and even reluctant to stop for the lovely contributory buffet lunch!
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The same image can be treated differently.
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| And this is what ladies took home! |
