Another lovely Summer School this year with everyone at Hillscourt Conference Centre at Rednal. I worked with Gwen Hedley alongside other distant stitch students. The title was Build Up, Dig Down. The whole weekend really invigorated me this year and it was also nice to meet Julia Triston. Both tutors and Sian generously shared their work and experience with us.
We also had plenty of time to work with each other and there was lots of exchanging of ideas.
We started by choosing large pebbles and making lines and marks in our sketchbooks. We made marks directly onto fabrics with a variety of tools.
We moved on to making reverse applique samples based on our designs.
We worked on free patching and piecing.
A little trickier was piecing and folding alongside applique.
We also looked at wrapping and making parcels.
I particularly enjoyed the free piecing and building, followed by cutting down. The idea was to extend the piece and keep a rhythm. It worked well with fabric and paper.
I liked how some of the students had worked with fabric and paper and will definitely explore this further.
I gained a great deal from summer school this year. Gwen was kind enough to see each of her students individually and offer suggestions and advice as to how we could each move forward. And of course we had lots of laughs.
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