More fabulous metal embossed baubles! These were all made yesterday afternoon at the wonderful Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. We had lots of repeat students from last year’s embossing workshop and last week’s lino printing workshop, as well as some new faces too. Brilliant work, everyone!
I had a lovely day teaching a bargello for beginners workshop. In this particular workshop we learned about the bright and fun stitching form called bargello, and in the process made a start on a mini wallhanging. The main part of the motif was created on the day, with guidance on how to create the…
Over the last few weeks my community art group have been having fun with paint and stitch. Everyone started off by creating abstract pieces with acrylic paints, stencils and texture paste. Then everyone added stitching and a bit of collage to those backgrounds. These are just a sample of the fantastic pieces everyone created. I…
It was great to be back at Woodland Village Hall on Friday afternoon to teach a metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Five of the participants had been on my metal embossed coasters workshop earlier in the year, so it was lovely to see them again. Fabulous ornaments and a…
I had a wonderful afternoon showing a lovely lady how to make a copper house number plate. She was making it for a friend, who lives in a place with ‘olive’ in the name, hence the olive branch. In keeping with the olive theme, she aged the house number with green paint and added a…
An absolutely stunning Junk Journal made by a lovely lady on my workshop today. She used old magazine pages for the interior, and some old cardboard packaging and left over wrapping paper for the covers. We added a few papers and a piece of fabric from my own collection to finish it off. We had…
I had a fabulous day with a craft group up in Birtley, Northumberland, yesterday, showing everyone how to make a Japanese stab bound sketchbook with a metal embossed cover. In the morning I showed everyone how to make the cover, taking everyone through the tools and materials first, creating a sample piece, and then moving…
