Unless stated otherwise my courses all take place at The Hearth in Horsley, Northumberland. This small rural arts centre has studios for 9 resident artists and I hire a nice big room to teach in with plenty of space for you to work and me to lay out materials. At lunch time we can take advantage of the café on site which serves delicious light lunches ,snacks and cakes and I usually open up my personal studio for a short while so you can see what I am currently working on.
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Fish. Saturday 11th September 2021 10-4 at the Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl. all materials FULL
For a long time I have been looking for an excuse to use my beautiful metallic and lustred fabric and threads and fish have swum into view! Have a go at building up a textile collage of a warm golden cod, a pretty speckled trout, the common herring or another of our British fishes. We will work by hand on to a background of a damask table cloth building up the layers and then putting in the details and the sparkle with hand stitching.
Contact me HERE to be put on the reserve list for this course
Contact me HERE to be put on the reserve list for this course
Redwork Sunday 12th September 2021 10-4 at The Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl materials. ONE place left
Red work embroidery dates back to the nineteenth century and involves working up a simple design using red thread. Sometimes red work designs were found on quilts and to embellish household linen. In the olden days transfers and stamps were used and you simply worked over them in back stitch. I prefer to research and source my own designs and admit that many of the patterns come from looking carefully at the motifs from an Australian quilt called The Westbury Quilt. In this course you will only use red and white ( or cream) but you will embroider directly on to the quilt top and perhaps combine the traditional redwork technique with some finger turned applique. I will give you some design ideas that I have gathered in my own research and help you every step of the way.
"Curly Locks" worked by my daughter Alice Pattullo for me during lockdown form her original drawing.
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"Curly Locks" worked by my daughter Alice Pattullo for me during lockdown form her original drawing.
contact me HERE to book
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Grace Darling Saturday 23rd October 10-4 at The Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl all materials FULL
Grace Darling is a bit of a North East legend and was an early female celebrity star. In this course you will create a collage on to a textured and painted piece of domestic linen that reflects the colours of the rough North Sea. You will applique small and subtle scraps around a portrait of Grace and use hand stitching ( we will have a look at seaweed forms for inspiration) to embellish. You can include a few words if you wish to.
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
Folk Art Applique Sunday 24th October 2021 10-4 at the Hearth Horsley Northumberland£60 including materials FULL
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Folk art often grew out of the home garden and the domestic and in this course you will have the opportunity to construct a small textile picture using traditional folk art motifs found on old appliqued quilts such as flowers and foliage, birds and animals and hearts. I will show you where I gets my inspiration from and how to do the traditional finger turned appliqué to build up your design on to a piece of old quilt.You will decorate the surface of your piece with traditional embroidery stitches. You don’t need to know stitches or be able to draw as handouts will help you!
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Fabric Books Saturday 6th November 2021 10-4 at the Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl all materials FULL
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I have been making exquisite books out of fabric for many years. My hand stitched pages can be simply sewn together with a pamphlet stitch, nestled inside a man’s wallet or a piece of quilt, stretched out as a scroll or the fabrics can be used inventively within a concertina format. The books can be used to collect together in one place precious tiny pieces of fabric with special resonance and in a sense the decorative stitches become the story thread that runs through. In this course you will be shown a number of options for making books out of fabric, how to build up a theme and use stitches imaginatively and then you will then create your own little hand stitched book that you will treasure forever. If you want to make a book in a wallet you will need to provide your own man’s leather envelope wallet.
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Memory Maps Sunday 7th November 2021 10-4 at The Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl all materials FULL
This course is about creating a stitched map based on your memory of a place or journey or walk. It might be somewhere from your childhood that has changed or that you can not revisit or it might be a mapping of a walk you do now ( like my walk through the cemetery to the allotment).
It is not about trying to stitch a conventional map but about working out what is important to you and what you want to remember. I will give you some advice on how to prepare before the course starts and on the day will help you prioritise what is important in your mapping memory and how to depict that in stitch. I will demonstrate how I sometimes mix in applique and stitch.
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
It is not about trying to stitch a conventional map but about working out what is important to you and what you want to remember. I will give you some advice on how to prepare before the course starts and on the day will help you prioritise what is important in your mapping memory and how to depict that in stitch. I will demonstrate how I sometimes mix in applique and stitch.
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
Red Kite Sat 27th November 10-4 at The Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl all materials FULL
We are so lucky to have so many Red Kites living and gliding about above our part of the North East. In Horsley you can often hear them as you get into your car in the car park and then glimpse them as they soar in and out of the clouds. This course celebrates the Red Kite and introduces you to the textile techniques that I use to build up all my birds. This is quite a big project but you will be given enough information to finish at home and a small pack of fabrics to build up your collage.
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE and state which day you would like to come.
To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE and state which day you would like to come.
Arctic Sun 5th December 10-4 at The Hearth Horsley Northumberland £60 incl all materials FULL
As the winter solstice approaches our days shorten and become cold. Some animals and birds hibernate or migrate but there are some magnificent white creatures such as the polar bear, snowy owl, arctic fox, wolf and hare who survive the harsher conditions of the north and who effectively camouflage themselves against the winter snowy landscape. You will build up a portrait of one of these using only white fabrics, vintage hankies, linen and lace on to a dark blue piece of quilt . Your hand stitching will help to define the feathers or fur.
To be put on the reserve list for this course contact meHERE stating the name of the course.
To be put on the reserve list for this course contact meHERE stating the name of the course.
