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| Setting up for a workshop |
I originally began this blog as a way of documenting all the different creative things I was doing. Over time it has grown and changed and it's become quite a reflective place for me and as social media has grown and grown I've been using other platforms to share and record my work. (If you have a little look on the right of this page you can find a link to some of those platforms.)
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
Recently I've been blogging less and less about the workshops and participatory projects I'm working on and I think there's a couple of main reasons for this. Firstly, I've been using Flickr to share images of the projects I'm working on and as I've shared the images (a picture paints a thousand words and all that) I've been writing less. Secondly, I've been working on lots of 'ongoing' projects so there isn't always a definite start and finish so I've tended not to blog as I think "I'll write a post when..." but of course the 'when...' never happens!
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
I don't think that sharing my work on these other platforms is a bad thing in any way but I do find that sometimes I miss the writing up and regular writing practice that blogging provides. There is an obvious and easy way to solve this and that is to get back into the habit of regularly blogging! So, with that in mind here's a summary of a couple of recent workshops that I've run.
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| Making Suffolk Puffs with the WI |
Suffolk Puffs with the Women's Institute (Warwick Bridge, Carlisle)
This was a really relaxed evening with a very lovely group of ladies. Making Suffolk Puffs is fairly easy so my main focus was showing the ladies what could be made with them; in particular textile jewellery. I'm always quite nervous working with groups such as the WI as often I'm working with people who have much more knowledge and experience of sewing than I do but I always find that what I can bring is a bit of inspiration and a different way of looking at things which encourages people to be a bit more creative.
Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
This is one of my favourite workshops to run and this session was so relaxed and enjoyable. The ladies were so engaged in embellishing their fabrics that at times the room was almost silent but in between those times we had some really interesting conversations about needlework and how the way something is taught makes such a huge difference to not only your understanding but your enjoyment (or otherwise.) I'm really pleased to have been asked back so in September I'll be running another of my favourite workshops for the group: Sketchbook Making.
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
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| Embellishing Printed Fabrics with Brampton Art Club |
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