Printing Adventures in Woodstock, Virginia

Phyllis A.

I am just back from teaching a one day printing workshop in Woodstock, Virginia. Well...actually...I don't know if we were exactly in Woodstock for the workshop itself...but close by. My friend, Trudi, asked me to come give a workshop for her quilt guild. Trudi lives in Woodstock in a beautiful home on 11 acres of land. I was invited to come out the afternoon before the workshop and spend the night. I spent a lovely dinner and evening with Trudi, her husband, George and some of the quilt guild members.

Skeeter S.

The workshop was a variation of my Beyond Potato Prints workshop. I lugged two big bags full of veggies from home to play with. Also, moldable foam blocks and craft foam blocks. You can see that students had fun designing their blocks and carving vegetables...

Glenna D.: Print blocks

Lynne C.: Carved vegetables

Marty H.: Print blocks

printing samplers...

Zoe H.: Print sampler

Glenna D.: Print sampler

Skeeter S.: Print sampler

Nancy R.: Print sampler

Lynne C.: Print sampler

and then putting it all together to create some fabulous fabrics!

Margie M.

Margie M.

Mary

Mary

Casey

Lynne C.

Marty M.

Phyllis A.

Phyllis A.

Skeeter S.

Trudi V-D.

Trudi V-D.

Nancy R.

Zoe H.

Thanks to all who came from near and far to take the workshop. I really had a great time watching you experiment and stretch!

Stitchy Stuff Part 2

Jodie F.: Layers piece completed at the beach!

Yesterday, I showed you images of some of the completed pieces from the spring Hand Stitching class. Today, I'm going to show you some of the pieces from students in the winter Hand Stitching class. These are either new pieces or ones from class that were completed. I get goosebumps handling them! I feel so fortunate to have such great students!

Jodie F.: Layers piece completed.

Jodie F.: Layers piece completed (at the beach!)

Jodie F.: New piece created at the beach. Jodie saw the waves breaking on the shore and just had to capture it in stitch!

Jodie F.: Texture piece still in process (just a reminder that this is a 4" square!).

Erika C.: A piece that I missed but ingenious! She cut away one piece to reveal the back of the piece behind it.

Jan B.: Playing with the printed pattern.

Jan B.: Couched yarns become and angel

Jan B.: More Bullions!

Lee W.: A new layers piece.

Me!: A two-sided layers piece side one.

Me!: A two-sided layers piece side two.

Stitchy Stuff Part 1

Kate G.: Cover for stitch portfolio. (Spring Hand Stitching class)

 I've been so caught up in putting together my new Power Point program on hand stitching (that I gave last Thursday night) that I haven't had time to post all the stitchy stuff! I hope that you saw yesterday's post about the hand stitching workshop. Here I'll post highlights from the final Hand Stitching (spring) class. Tomorrow I'll focus on pieces I borrowed for the program (new pieces since the winter class).

First up....Spring Hand Stitching...

Peggy G.: Clouds using cheese cloth.

Peggy G.: Clouds using dryer sheets.

Christina H.: Line sampler.

Susan P.: Inside cover design (Spring Hand Stitching class).

Susan P.: Layers for outside front cover design.

Claudia E.

Claudia E.

Claudia E.

Some great work, class!

Stitching with PM Fiber Arts Guild

Maria S.: Stitch sampler.

I had the pleasure of teaching a hand stitching workshop yesterday to members of the PM Fiber Arts Guild. The evening before I gave a presentation about the Good Stitch...stitching with intention. The talk focused primarily on my Hand Stitching class with a couple of "healing" cloth stories at the end. I was also so privileged to have a large number of samples from my Hand Stitching and Story Cloth students...so that members of the guild could see the stitching first hand.

Bekki S.: Stitch sampler.

Dayle G.: Stitch sampler.

Helen B.: Stitch sampler.

Karen F.: Stitch sampler.

Eight members spent the day with me in Linda Syverson Guild's gorgeous studio. The studio is on the top floor of her home...large and airy with skylights and windows...it felt like we were up in the trees! Linda was the most gracious host and had arranged all the tables to get the best light (until it poured in the afternoon!).

Karen S.: Stitch sampler

Laurie T.: Stitch sampler

Linda S-G: Stitch sampler

I taught a number of basic stitches, emphasizing how they could be manipulated. I wanted students to have a playful approach and to see what these stitches could do! After completing a sampler, students went on to start work on Challenge pieces.

Dayle G.: Stitch challenge.

Karen F.: Stitch challenge.

Helen B.: Stitch challenge.

Linda S-G: Stitch challenge.

I'm excited to see where these go and hope that students will send photos when they are finished that I can share here.

Laurie T.: Working on her challenge.

Bekki S.: Stitch challenge.

Karen S.: Stitch challenge.

Maria S.: Stitch challenge.

Thank you students...it was a relaxing, enjoyable day of stitching.

P.S.: Hope you will look past the quality of some of these shots...took many as the light disappeared and a storm blew in. Very exciting with the rain pounding on the skylights!