Saturday, November 16, 2024

Next Meeting: November 20th, Stitch Day and Rag Wreath Workshop with Judith Barlass

 Last meeting, guided by Judth's expert tuition, we tried our hand at "pottery" using cotton cord and scraps of fabric. Cotton pottery is made by shaping a length of cotton rope into a bowl, dish, or mat with your sewing machine, zig-zagging as you go. We were all thrilled with the results of the days work.




 



Next Wednesday is a members Stitch Day, so please bring along your own projects. As part of our alternative programme, Judith will be kindly showing us how to make a rag wreath.


Monday, October 21, 2024

Next Meeting: November 6th, Rope Bowl Workshop with Judith Barlass

 What a fabulous visit we had to the Leeds Library to see "The Leeds Tapestry". 

 

The 16 panels of needlework, each 8 feet high by 4 feet wide, and each containing an aspect of Leeds life, are made up of many individual embroideries, 1500 in all, sewn in a wide variety of stitches. The photos illustrate just a tiny sample of the individual embroideries.












 It was conceived and directed by Leeds textile artist Kate Russell and provides a vision of the City of Leeds at the turn of the Millennium.

 Kate writes " One of the fundamental aims of this project was to involve people from all sectors, from all walks of life, in the whole range of creative processes: consultation, research, design, fund-raising and production. Another intention was to reveal the creative potential of a wide variety of textile techniques from the everyday to the innovative."

The work is awe inspiring. 

The friendly staff at the Library gave a very thorough and knowledgeable talk  about the panels and completed our visit with a super stitch workshop. I can certainly recommend a visit to see the Tapestry.