I am very happy to announce that myself and my wonderful friend Layla Chauhan are doing a collaborative stitch class this Sunday! (As usual will be on my Instagram at 1 P.M UK time.) Using the stitches I’ve taught over the weeks-with one or two new ones sprinkled in-we will show you how to piece them together to create a beautiful piece of art!
I know the deadline for submitting the blog has now passed, but I finished off my piece for Alice Kettle’s Stitch12Stitches project just now! And I felt that even if this post is not graded, I would like to have it up on my blog. The idea is to stitch your time in isolation onto a white piece of fabric in either a rounded way or to fill a circular space. Alice will them compile the entries into a stitched quilt. So here is my piece! Continue reading
With the deadline tomorrow, I thought I would share one last sample I made during the project exploring the technique of couching and say some thanks!
Embroidery as mindfulness dates back to the first World War, where it was used to keep the hands and minds of soldiers busy who were suffering from PTSD. An example of what is called diversional therapy which, “is a client centered practice [that] recognizes that leisure and recreational experiences are the right of all individuals.” (Diversional therapy, n.d.)
This helped to establish The Disabled Soldier’s Embroidery Industry. Ran from 1918-1955 this industry acted as skills-development, helping those ex-servicemen to raise their self-confidence. In addition stitching textiles with others helped to form bonds with those who had shared experiences, as well as make a bit of money. All through the power of embroidering items for industry and for themselves! Continue reading
By request of everyone who was so lovely and came to my previous livestream teaching a few basic stitches, I did a second one!
During the presentation Lindy did on the day Grace and I volunteered with the handling of archival pieces, I took some notes as well as did some quick sketches!
During the weird and surreal time, there has become a lack of structure and daily routine in people’s lives. I’ve really been missing being able to attend my university classes, and chat with those on campus. (As basically everyone is missing for that matter!) So I decided using the embroidery skills I have learned this semester, and through my past years exploring it as a technique to teach anyone interested at home a way to pass there time! Continue reading
Me and Grace decided to volunteer to help out at Touching Stitches handling session where we would be overseeing archival pieces as people looked at them, and tell them a bit more information on them!
On a beautiful sunny Saturday, I went out to visit the May Morris Exhibition at the Dovecot! I find blog exhibition posts particularly tricky to do, because I always take thousands of photos than feel overwhelmed when I have to post them all! My phone camera has a very high resolution too, so it means I individually resize every photograph uploaded on this blog. The more you know!
For this weeks lesson, we explored both the CAD Embroidery Lab and learned about stitch on the sewing machine.
Here are my CAD notes I quickly typed out while Hannah taught us the secrets of the CAD Lab:
