This little workshop has been extracted from a longer piece that Angela did for us creating a textile bird picture from newsprint and magazines. However, we thought this piece stands on it’s own and you can see how easy it is to create a unique piece of fabric on your table top, utilising items that are easily available in your home.
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Angela talks you through how to create this project. She likes to use woad dyed fabric, which she creates herself.
In the workshop she talks about the styles of stitching, the regional differences, what threads she prefers, together with the relevant needles.
Traditionally this work had no ...
We are going to start with wandering round the West Country Quilt Show, which we did a back in the autumn of 2018. And as well as nosing around lots of other interesting stands and displays and looking at some of the remarkable competition quilts, we meet super-talented textile artists Fran Holm...
Angela uses these inktense pencils to create wonderful landscapes for her kantha stitching. In addition, she suggests to colour in your pre-quilted designs - even a feather wreath.
Anyway, back to the pencils - with the addition of water or aloe vera gel, the inks in these become really vibran...
