amended date for workshop 'The Mystery of the Embellisher- Solved'

'The Mystery of the Embellisher-Solved' with Sue Chisnall-Sumner.  

The date of this workshop has been amended to Wednesday 19th November

£35.00 for the day, which includes full instruction on how to use your embellisher. If you do not own an embellisher you can  have a go on one of my two embellishing machines. You will learn how to make beautiful fabrics, using wool tops, silk tops, & all kinds of light weight fabrics. You will also be able to add textured threads & wools. At a later stage you will be able to develop the fabrics into wall hangings, bags etc.

You can also learn how to needle felt using hand tools, which can be made into small items eg. bracelets, boxes etc.

Also included is a light lunch & refreshments during the day.

Please contact Avant Garden Centre, Wigan Road, Leyland, Lancs PR25 5XW (a few minutes from J28 on M6) Tel 01772 433777 to book & obtain a requirement list.

needle felted bracelet

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craft fairs

The Three Stitches-that is me, Tracey & Caroline are attending two craft fairs before Christmas, Samlesbury Hall, near Preston on Sunday 30th November & Chipping near Preston on Sunday 7th December. (please look on their websites for further info)

We have been busy marbling polystyrene bells & balls, to make Christmas hangings- please see post named marbling- I have embellished the baubles with 3D paint & beads, added plain sticky labels to the numerous small gift tags(over 30) & large tags which have then been bagged & priced. The wooden baubles, have also been enhanced with 3D paint & the backs coloured with metallic pens, with hanging ribbons added. All now ready to go!!!

Tracey came round & we embossed, die cut & prepared 28 cards- these have now been embellished, priced & bagged. Some are Christmas cards & some general ones.

Tracey & I are available to do the Samlesbury Hall fair- so good to go!

Caroline arrives back from her travels just before Chipping, so Chipping will have to put up with all three of us- they don't know what they are getting yet!

Lets hope we do well & both events are fully advertised.

Pictures to follow--------

Encaustically Rich workshop 4th October

The workshop was very successful & all the students appeared to enjoy themselves- they said it was very relaxing, which is good.

They produced some lovely items of jewellery, very different & unique. Most went home wearing all their finery.

The encaustic waxing on fabric was also greatly enjoyed & again the students excelled & created some very interesting effects.

The pictures below show some of their work.

encaustically stamped fabric on heat plate

busy bees!

more busy bees!

encaustic wax on calico which is being given spot enhancement with stylus.

poppy brooch

bookmarks

acrylic waxed pendants drying!

caged earrings

picture on cotton

starting a waxed fabric piece

printing onto cotton on hot plate

marbling session

Today I had a marbling session with Tracey & Caroline (The Three Stitches)- we had  a frustrating fight to insert wire into polystyrene balls, bells & eggs to make a device to hang the Christmas decorations up to dry-Nightmare!!! why is it that even if you make a hole through polystyrene anything inserted into the hole finds a different passage???? Must be an answer somewhere???

We did manage to marble all the baubles in a fashion- however we went slightly manic with the labels as you can see from the photograph!

The beautiful wooden trees & hearts that Tracey sourced from somewhere! look stunning & have worked very well, as do the pieces of card that we intend to cut up & use to decorate cards for sale.

Tracey & I will have to arrange a further session to decorate & assemble the decorations, and in some cases rescue them from disaster.

However even though stressful, mainly me!!! I must get a good nights sleep tonight! we really enjoyed the day & have been very productive.

We keep trying to sell our wares at Craft Fairs so hopefully we will do well tomorrow at Dalton- GO CAROLINE!!!

plenty of labels!

collection of cards 

collection of wooden items

wooden tree with gold beads added

original type marbling

strange flowers

further collection

as it comes

swirls

all at sea

pop art

Iris collection

stippling

Forthcoming workshop 'The Mystery of the Embellisher-Solved!'

I have arranged to hold a new workshop on Sat 1st November 10.00am to 4.00pm, the details are below;

'The Mystery of the Embellisher-Solved' with Sue Chisnall-Sumner.  

£35.00 for the day, which includes full instruction on how to use your embellisher. If you do not own an embellisher you can  have a go on one of my two embellishing machines. You will learn how to make beautiful fabrics, using wool tops, silk tops, & all kinds of light weight fabrics. You will also be able to add textured threads & wools. At a later stage you will be able to develop the fabrics into wall hangings, bags etc.

You can also learn how to needle felt using hand tools, which can be made into small items eg. bracelets, boxes etc.

Also included is a light lunch & refreshments during the day.

Please contact Avant Garden Centre, Wigan Road, Leyland, Lancs PR25 5XW (a few minutes from J28 on M6) Tel 01772 433777 to book & obtain a requirement list.

needle felted bracelet

Sunset Strip

enchanted wood