Lino Printing Workshop With Anne Thomas – 27 April 2012

 

More photos from the workshop are available from our Flickr site

 

Tecstiliau Meirionnydd Textiles Exhibition

 

Work Shop Oct 15th 2011 Thermofax Printing

Below are photos of work done by members in the Thermofax Printing Workshop  given by Jeanette McCulloch. http://www.jeanettemcculloch.co.uk/
Jeanette is a member of the Ledbury Workshop.

You can see these and all our other photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmtextiles/

 

Summer Newsletter 2011

The Summer newsletter is now available to download a copy, PDF Format click here

Our next workshop is  on

AUGUST 20th NEEDLEFELTING AND EMBELLISHING.

Bring your embellishing machines and needle felting tools,scraps of fabric and threads and have a fun day making your own fabric!

There will be needle felting tools for sale at a reasonable price.

 

June Workshop

Our June meeting was a most successful workshop taught by Angie Hughes, textile artist from Ledbury who led sixteen stitchers through a mixed media workshop making a book cover or simply very textured hanging using a variety of techniques. Angie showed what fun could be had making most interesting textured surfaces working on a stiffish base

June Workshop

and adding all kinds of recycled old lace, threads, cut outs tissue paper etc. with bondaweb and PVA. Interesting surfaces were produced with various techniques using acrylic paints, water and paper towels. Stitchery was then added, whether by hand or machine, and surfaces painted with gezzo or matt emulsion. Nedless to say the results showed great variety and ingenuity. Much enjoyment was had by all participants.

Four others who were not on the workshop enjoyed stitching their own work in the back room and catching up new, and snooping on what the folk in the workshop were up to.

Our next meeting on 17th July is a Goldwork workshop led by Hilary Davies of Penrhyndeudraeth. There are still a few places left on this workshop for anyone interested to join us or just come along, bring your own work and have a lovely relaxing sewing day.

 

Newsletter

Dear Members and prospective members

Here is the TMT Spring newsletter, I hope you find something of interest.
We plan to produce another newsletter in the autumn, so if you have information to share with other members or if there is something you would like to see us include in future newsletters please do let Moragh or myself know.

I look forward to seeing you at the meetings.

With very best wishes

Clunie
Clunie Keenleyside (secretary)

 

To open newsletter, PDF format click here

 

October 2009 Workshop

Seven members enjoyed a magical day creating a pair of fairy slippers with a return visit from Marion Wagstaff as our tutor. We were greeted with a lovely display of fairy slippers, felt and sheers in every colour, threads, beads and an excellent handout with step by step instructions in both writing and pictures.

Marion began by showing us her very unique way of producing the basic slipper shapes with the use of a fine tipped soldering iron. This method also fused the different layers of fabric together so we were all off to a very quick start. Silence was golden as we all concentrated and worked none stop. The embellishing of the slippers was the next step and Marion was at hand with lots of advice and ideas. Before assembling these small treasures the surface that would be the inside the slippers had to be painted with acrylic paint and allowed to dry. Marion then explained just how she stitched the  slippers together and by the time the class had come to an end most members had completed their pair. What an enchanting day.

Other members attending the meeting had a most enjoyable day in the other room. There was a very colourful display of members 3D work , lots of chatting, Pat had brought her thread shop along and most members worked on their own projects. In all of our meetings our textile successes and failures are shared and most times any problems we have are solved.

 

August 2009 Workshop

Members came together for a rather different meeting in August. The meeting started with a goodie bag swap which would be followed by a mini challenge for those members who were interested. Nearly everyone came with a goodie bag that contained items from the following, fabric, threads, beads, buttons, ribbon, paper and anything that could prove to be useful. This goodie bag was then swapped with another member’s goodie bag. The room was filled with great excitement and it felt just like Christmas. Each bag was such a wonderful surprise and members found that they now had a surprise colour scheme as well as items that they may not have worked with before.

Our mini challenge that was to follow was not compulsory and some members chose to work their swap on another occasion. The members that were taking on the mini challenge were asked to create a 4inch by 4inch piece of work using any technique in either hand or machine stitching.

Walking around the room at intervals during the rest of the day proved very interesting as everyone had a completely different approach to their own piece. Some pieces where manipulated, some collaged and some had used appliqué. There were couched threads, along with various hand stitches and applied beads. Each one was developing into a delightful MASTERPIECE.

These members could then take their masterpiece to the next step and use it on a final piece for our Christmas competition which is held in the December meeting. So you will need to watch this space to see what develops from this unusual meeting.

 

July 2009 Workshop

The day got off to a very good start with around sixteen members arriving for the day. Some ladies had booked for a tutored session with two of our members, Marion Wagstaff and Ros Bissell. ‘Gifts from the Sea’ was the title of the day and it would be spent creating a textured surface with hand stitches and applied treasure that had been collected from our local beaches.

This treasure was placed on and covered the top of one of the tables from the hall, there were different types of shells in all different colours from very small to large. Marion and Roz began by guiding us though how to apply the shells and then suggested some of the many hand stitches that could be worked alongside. There was a selection of stitch books available alongside some wonderful samples to take ideas from. For most of the day you could hear a pin drop as everyone was concentrating on producing their piece.

For the rest of the members who had arrived for the meeting, they had got together in another room and were Beading, working Hardanger, Canvas work, Knitting and playing with Friendly Plastic. Some members had brought in pieces of work showing texture and this was exhibited to give the members a talking point during the day.

One of the founder members of our group had decided to join us for the day which was a lovely surprise. June had not been able to attend for a while as her husband was in ill health, it was lovely to see her and catch up with what she had been doing since we last saw her. Another founder member had sent in a huge amount of threads for us to sell, this money would then go into the group funds and as you can imagine we all were like bees around a honey pot and guess what, they all found a home. Thank you Eleri for your generosity.

The day proved to be another successful and enjoyable meeting. We all went home with our pockets full of shells and threads. Just a stitcher’s delight.

 

June 2009 Workshop

Members attending the June meeting enjoyed the last of our Craft Extravaganza days for this year which had been organised by the group’s co-coordinator, Joan Robson. Our Chairman, Moragh Bradshaw began the day with a demonstration and talk on her experiences of using Transfer inks and crayons. Moragh had lots of samples to show of both products and showed a variety of ways that could be used in their application. Joan Robson then reinforced this and followed on with her own development of Transfer Crayons and Paper Bag Printing.

Joan then explain the method of Slashing, this was reinforced with samples and more suggestions of how to take this technique further. Couching was the next on the list and again Joan showed a selection of her own samples using a more modern approach to this technique. Members then spent the rest of the morning having a go at the techniques that had been covered.

Just before lunch members gathered to take a look at a selection of member’s textile pieces that would be going into local exhibitions during the month of July. Both Blaenau Ffestiniog and Dolgellau Libraries had invited our group to exhibit and give an insight into what our members produce from our meetings.

After lunch Joan Robson gave a demonstration of creating an embellishment that could be added to a textile project using a Glue Gun and glue sticks. Members needed no encouragement to have a go and for the rest of the meeting they continued to experiment with all the ideas of the day. Another very busy and rewarding day was enjoyed by all the members attending.

 

More photos from the workshop can be seen on our Flickr page here