Monday, 4 April 2011

Workshop with Angie Hughes

The Lutterworth Branch of the Embroiderers' Guild had a most enjoyable workshop today tutored by Angie Hughes. (http://www.angiehughes.com/)
There were so many of us who wanted to do this workshop that Angie kindly agreed to stay over and run it again the next day!
I'm afraid I omitted to note the names of all the owners of these pieces, so I hope they will forgive me.

The first is my effort. The process involved spraying two colours of fabric paint onto white cotton velvet, then drying it by ironing. This allowed the paint to heat set at the same time. They were then sprayed with diluted Quink black ink and again dried. After this we stenciled with bleach to remove some of the black and then stamped with and embellished them. In a one day workshop there wasn't time to stitch on them but Angie showed us the techniques for this and we will work on them some more at home.


This is mine again with some embellishments being added, gold foil and sweetie papers plus some sequins.


I believe the next one is by Alex


These were Julie's


The next two were by Sarah Adcock I think. The start and then with some added embellishments.



I really can't remember who owns this one. Sorry!


I was pleased at how different everyone's work was in spite of the fact that we all used the same three dyes and shared Angie's stencils as well.
This was a most enjoyable day and I would recommend any who have not had a workshop with Angie to do so as soon as possible. She is an excellent tutor and it was fun what's more!

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