This evening I am speaking to the relatively newly formed Farnborough Brance of the Embroiderers’ Guild. The subject will be the Embellisher, and there will be a chance for a short ‘tryout’ too. Details of times and venue can be found on their website. The information is a little late in coming, but if you are in the area you might like to attend.
We will also have a few items for sale with us. Hope to see you there.
Following a conversation earlier today I realised that maybe some of you don’t know that I have a few views on the Embellishers currently available here.
These are a couple of things on which I’m currently working – the embellisher was in use and also the sewing machine.
These both include our hand-dyed Vegetarian Silk, and one is further embellised with our scrim. Both are machine stitched using Madeira Polyneon Astro threads.
I used the Janome FM725 to create the areas of texture
Creativity can take many forms and sometimes it’s good to indulge. Over the years I’ve found that doing something regularly is the best way to warm up the creative juices and find something we really enjoy. I’ve blogged about this before when I first joined postaday a few years ago and now I still post every day – but in a variety of places according to topic. It isn’t the blogging every day that has been important but the doing something that has enabled me to go on and do more. Every day I squeeze in just 15 minutes (obviously more if I can) and do something creative. I keep misquoting Picasso – but as he said ‘Inspiration comes, but it has to find you working’. My circumstances don’t always allow me to indulge as much as I would like – so those 15 minutes are precious.
This coming weekend is destined to be a CREATIVE WEEKEND why not join us? Find 15 minutes – more if the fancy takes you – and do SOMETHING! Maybe try something new – or indulge yourself in something you LOVE! Take a look here on Facebook This is the Friday page – but if Saturday or Sunday suit you better then there are events scheduled for then too. Then join us in the group It’s a closed group – that just means that you have to be approved. As it’s me doing the approving you can always let me know who you are blogwise if you wish. So far there are people from the UK, USA, SA, Aus and NZ. Several from Europe too. After last year’s illness I’m still finding it difficult to do the things I really love – but I’m determined to get back into full flow this year and finish all my outstanding commitments and work on some new ideas.
I hope you will join us, but even if you can’t maybe you will spread the word. It could be a GREAT BUMPER WEEKEND. What qualifies? Almost anything – photography, writing, poetry, carving, collage, blogging, art, textiles, stitching, embroidery, journaling, quilting ….. even numbers are creative – so…… what’s your excuse? 😉
See you there…..
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