Jumpstart in Hand Stitching

Imani W-R: Running stitch in blue velvet.

Oh my...it's been a month since I last posted!
I'll be catching up over the next few days with posts about stitching.

This first post shows work from the Jumpstart in Hand Stitching workshop that I taught in early January. The Jumpstart workshop is a 2-day fast track version of my five session Hand Stitching class. It includes Journal Prompts, Samplers and Challenges (though not as many as the five session class...obviously!). We had a great weekend...and the students really bonded over stitching.

Here are some of the journal entries...

Imani W-R: Journal with stitched samples.

Linda M.: Journal entry.

Patricia de P W: Journal entry.

 Here are some of the stitch samplers. Students focused on line stitches, looped stitches, and texture stitches.

Linda M: Line and Looped Stitches Sampler

Linda M.: Texture Stitch Sampler.

Jodie F.: Stitch Sampler.

Liz E.: Line and Looped Stitch Sampler.

Ruth T.: Line and Looped Stitch Sampler.

Patricia de P-W: Texture Sampler.

Susan G.: Line and Looped Stitch Sampler.

Students then did some Challenge pieces which included reverse applique and layering.

Helen B.: Couching on wool jacket.

Helen B.: Reverse applique.

Helen B.: Weaving with cheesecloth.

Imani W-R: Texture Challenge.

Jodie F.: Layers.

Laurie T.: Texture and layers.

Linda M. : Commercial Fabric Challenge (see journal entry above).

Linda M.: Layers.

Liz E.: Layers.

Liz E.: Layers.

Liz E.: Line and Couching.

Melanie H.: Layers.

Patricia de P.-W.: Layers.

Ruth T.: Couching.

Ruth T. : Layers.

Susan G.: Texture