Stitching at Birmingham Library

Birmingham Embroiderers' Guild have joined forces with the new Birmingham Library and are starting to hold monthly stitching sessions at the library. Anyone can join in and if you are not a stitcher but would like to have a go, just go along and there will be someone on hand to get you started. The first session is on the first Saturday in November, starting at 11 am.
For more information, follow the link to Birmingham EG's web site

 http://birminghamembroiderersguild.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/come-stitch-with-us-birmingham.html

A new project

Our Embroiderers' Guild Members' Exhibition is only a few weeks away so I need to get started on a piece fairly quickly. The exhibition is called 'In The Landscape' so I have decide to use some of my photos from Australia as my source of inspiration.
I love the colours in these pictures, taken at the Corung National Park, on the way to Adelaide

 

I am using wool tops and various other fibres to felt a background onto a wool blanket. I started felting with a hand tool but will use the embellisher machine to finish felting the fibres down.

 

 

Now I am beginning to add stitch

 

 

Just hope I can finish in time!

 

 

Roots Moving On

Our Running Stitch exhibition came down this week. Thank you to all those who came to view and left some lovely comments. After a quick change of fixings (mirror plate to D rings) the pieces will be going off to Heartlands Hospital for a few weeks, then Good Hope Hospital and finally ending up back in Solihull at Solihull Hospital, sometime early next year.
As I won't be seeing my pictures for a while, I  made sure I took some photos.

Walking with granddad across the fields at Thurlaston

Walking with granddad 2

 

The long climb - The Lickey Hills

 

Postcards from my past - based on the style of the WW1 embroidered postcards

 

 

 The Portrait



As these were very personal pieces of work, most incorporating family photos, they were not for sale. The black and white embroidered pieces included fabric copies of photos taken by my father so are particularly important to me and I will not be parting with those.