Saturday 11th and Saturday 18th February
All Materials Included
Under Alex’s instruction you will cover a multitude of different techniques – from design transfer to preparing your fabric for paint and applique. Having chosen your design your first day will be spent outlining your motifs onto your background fabric – the second day you will begin to look at colour and appropriate metallic and opaque paints alongside preparing applique pieces of fabric, building up a highly textural and original piece. Fabrics such as metallic faux leathers, silks and velvets alongside commercially printed cottons will all have a place in your completed wall hanging. Please note from the requirements list below that it will be helpful to incorporate your own fabrics with Alex’s supply.
The panel will be designed within the two days and finished off at home at your leisure.
Ideal for those with machine embroidery experience.
Includes homemade lunch and refreshments both days
What you will need to bring
• Sewing machine with extension table and drop feed dogs
• Free machine embroidery foot
• General sewing kit
• Spare bobbins
• Grey machine embroidery thread wound onto two bobbins
• Very fine acrylic brushes for detailed paint work
• You will be working from a choice of designs but if you wish to bring some ‘background floral’ designs blown up large please do so.
• Small pieces of space dyed fabrics such silk velvets and cottons will be useful
Small pieces of metallic faux leathers in colours of your choice and any commercial cottons you may have in your stash at home