It was another productive session at Megastitchers with a morning workshop led by member, Joy, looking at creating silk paper using cocoon strippings. Joy is a very accomplished practitioner and brought along many samples for members' inspiration. Here are just a few of them
After teasing out the cocoon strippings, adding decorative items such as leaves, threads, paper etc and applying watercolour members, were able to iron their pieces (using baking parchment). They were also able to add colour to silk rods and begin the fiddley process of separating them into fine layers.
Some great ideas for creating backgounds ready for stitching! Thank you, Joy.
In the afternoon, we had a presentation from Pam about the choices for our next 'Artist of the Year' that will, hopefully, inform teaching for our member-led 2-hour workshops. We had the opportunity to vote for Jan Messent (textile atist), William Morris, Ton Shulten and Hundertwasser. More news when all the votes have been counted.
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