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I offer a range of courses, lectures and workshops specialising in freehand machine embroidery and related creative stitching techniques. Weekly courses offer an intensive exploration into the creative world of Machine Embroidery.
Get to know your sewing machine and use it as a drawing tool to create individual designs. One day workshops are on offer throughout the South East at:- Brighton, Sussex:- Puddleducks, Sevenoaks, Kent:- Making Space, Havant, Hampshire:- Sussex Guild Event Room, Southover Grange, Lewes, Sussex.
Residential courses are on offer at West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex, and as a freelance tutor and lecturer, I travel nationwide, visiting groups and guilds. (see below for details of available courses)
NEW Castanea - Crafts in Spain 2012. Why not join me for a week of creativity inspired by architecture in the Murcia region of Spain.
NEW venue - Sussex Guild Events Room at the Sussex Guild Shop in Lewes, Sussex
NEW venue - Patcham Community Centre, Brighton, Sussex.
NEW venue - Denman College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
NEW venue - Foredown Tower Education Centre, Portslade, Sussex
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Venue 1: CITY COLLEGE BRIGHTON AND HOVE Pelham Street, Brighton, East Sussex. BN1 4FA
book on:- 01273 667788 www.ccb.ac.uk
CREATIVE MACHINE EMBROIDERY FOR BEGINNERS Saturday 28th January 2012 10.00am-4.00pm
MONET’S GARDENS Saturday 25th February 2012 10.00am-4.00pm Designs will be created using simple painting techniques inspired by Monet’s gardens. Basic machine embroidery will be worked with applied fabric and threads.
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Venue 2: WEST DEAN COLLEGE
West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex. PO18 0QZ
book on:- 01243 811301 www.westdean.org.uk
This course is suitable for students with all levels of ability
EXPLORING SOLUBLE FABRICS FOR LACE AND OTHER EFFECTS 14th - 17th September 2012 Residential / non-residential
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Venue 3: SUSSEX GUILD EVENT ROOM NEW Sussex Guild Shop, Southover Grange, Southover Road, Lewes, East Sussex. BN7 1TP
book on:- 01273 479565 or 01273 417178 www.thesussexguild.co.uk/event-room.html COURSES TO BE ARRANGED
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Venue 4: PATCHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE NEW
Ladies Mile Road, Patcham, Brighton, East Sussex. BN1 8TA book on:- 01273 417178 e-mail wendy.dolan@ntlworld.com
MACHINE EMBROIDERED BOOK COVERS Saturday 21st January 2012 £40 Enjoy a day making exciting designs for book covers. Pelmet Vilene will be decorated with fabrics, then worked into with freehan MACHINE EMBROIDERY INSPIRED BY GUSTAV KLIMT Saturday 5th May 2012 £40 Learn how to use your machine for freehand machine embroidery and create exciting designs inspired by the patterns and colours of Gustav Klimt’s artwork. Fabrics will be layered, stitched and worked into with a soldering iron. Gold leaf will be incorporated in the designs.
MACHINE EMBROIDERED FLOWERS Saturday 9th June 2012 £40 Develop your machine embroidery skills, using flowers as the inspiration for this one day course. Suitable for all levels of ability
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Venue 5: CASTANEA - CRAFTS IN SPAIN NEW
Mar Menor, Mercia, Spain. www.castaneacraftcourses.com book on +44 (0)1527 69100 e-mail info@castaneacraftcourses.com
ARCHITECTURAL TEXTURES 15 - 21 April 2012 Join me for an exciting week of creativity. Architecture provides the inspiration for this course. Freehand Machine Embroidery and other skills are explored and developed as you create unique designs inspired by architecture in the Mar Menor region. Fabrics will be applied in layers to create designs, which will be painted and worked into with freehand machine embroidery. Three dimensional textured effects will be incorporated in the work. www.castaneacraftcourses.com
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Venue 6: PUDDLEDUCKS
116 St John’s Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent. TN13 3PD
book on:- 01732 743642
MACHINE EMBROIDERED WINTER LANDSCAPES Friday 27th January 2012 10am-4.00pm £40 Learn how to use your machine for freehand machine embroidery and create designs inspired by winter trees and landscapes.
MACHINE EMBROIDERED LANDSCAPES Friday 30th March 2012 10am-4.00pm £40 Learn how to use your machine for freehand machine embroidery and create exciting landscape designs. Fabrics will be pieced and layered and then worked into with stitching. Suitable for all levels of ability.
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Venue 7: HURST VILLAGE CENTRE
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex. book on:- 01273 417178
ARCHITECTURAL TEXTURES Saturday 11th Feb 2012 10am-4.00pm £40 Learn how to use your machine for freehand machine embroidery and create exciting designs inspired by Architecture. Fabrics will be layered and worked into with freehand machine embroidery. Suitable for all levels of ability.
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Venue 8: FOREDOWN TOWER EDUCATION CENTRE NEW
Foredown Road, Portslade, Sussex BN41 2EW book on:- 01273 422632 www.portslade.org
CREATIVE MACHINE EMBROIDERY Friday 2nd March 2012 10am-4.00pm £10 (supported by the Chris Field trust)
Learn how to use a basic sewing machine for freehand embroidery then design and create a small landscape picture with stitching, applied fabrics and thread.
Suitable for all levels of ability.
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Venue 9: OLD CHAPEL TEXTILE CENTRE
Main Street, New Greenham Park, Newbury, Berks, RG19 6HW book on:- 01635 38740
MONET’S GARDENS Tuesday 6th March 2012 10am-4.00pm £45 Designs will be created using simple painting techniques inspired by Monet’s gardens. Basic machine embroidery will be worked with applied fabric and threads.
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Venue 10: MAKING SPACE
Bishopstoke Rd, Leigh Park, Havant, Hants. PO9 5BN book on:- 02392 472491
MACHINE EMBROIDERED SPRING FLOWERS Saturday 3rd March 2012 10am-3.00pm £45 Develop your machine embroidery skills using spring flowers as the inspiration. You will learn how to create shading effects with thread.
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Venue 11: INKBERROW DESIGN CENTRE
Cedar House, Britten Street, Redditch, Worcestershire, B97 6HD book on:- 01527 69100 info@inkberrowdesigncentre.co.uk
MACHINE EMBROIDERED TEXTURED LANDSCAPES Saturday 26th Sunday 27th May 2012 10am-4.00pm Learn how to use your machine for freehand machine embroidery and create exciting landscape designs. Fabrics will be layered, stitched and painted, then worked into with freehand machine embroidery. Suitable for all levels of ability.
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Venue 12: DENMAN COLLEGE
Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX13 6NW www.denmancollege.org.uk book on:- 01865 391991 info@denman.org.uk
MACHINE EMBROIDERY FOR BEGINNERS 2nd - 5th April 2012 A course for those with no knowledge of machine embroidery. We will be creating pattern and texture with stitch to produce a small wall hanging or picture
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As a freelance tutor and lecturer I am happy to travel to your Group or Organisation and offer the following selection of titles.
WORKSHOPS
*Creative Machine Embroidery for Beginners *Machine Embroidered Book Covers
*Machine Embroidered Bowls and Vessels *Machine Embroidery inspired by Gustav Klimt (1 or 2 day)
*Machine Embroidered Cushion Covers(1 or 2 day) NEW *Machine Embroidered Flowers(1 or 2 day) NEW *Bags of Fun: machine embroidered bags and purses (2-3 days)
*Textures and Holes: machine embroidery on open weave fabrics
*Layered Landscapes (1 or 2 day) *Machine Embroidered Winter Landscapes / Autumn Landscapes NEW *Architectural Textures (1 or 2 day)
*Machine Embroidered Greetings Cards ( or Christmas Cards)
*Machine Embroidered Lace. using soluble fabrics
*Machine Embroidered Gardens
*Monet’s Gardens *Cut-away Applique
*Breaking The Rules: combining canvas work & applied fabrics (2-3 days)
LECTURES
*Creative Stitched Textiles
*Interpreting Natural Forms in Embroidery *Containers and Vessels *Art, Architecture and Stitch
*Starlight Serenade ‘Taking Embroidery a Stage (Curtain) Further’
*A Change of Scale ‘The Challenges of Commissioned Work’
*‘Aspiring Arches’ A Millennium Commission
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