Subject Futures Week at Northampton University

We have been invited to take part in Northampton University's "Subject Futures Week- Making the Future" on Tuesday 26th January. It's a great opportunity to showcase what the group do and demonstrate to today's students that skills that they are developing can be enjoyed over their lifetime even when not actively a part of earning a crust.

We will put up a small exhibition and a group of us will be stitching all day with on the spot demos of what we are doing if anyone wants more information.

We have a short hand out about the group and flyers for CQ as well.

We'll post photos of the event next week.

                                         The Weedon Bec Creative Textiles Group

We are mostly members of Contemporary Quilt, one of the Quilters Guild specialist groups, but we welcome all who wish to extend their skills and share their expertise in the textile art field.

We meet on the second Monday of each month in nearby Kislingbury as a mutual support and self-tutoring group. 

Our members all have different specialist skills and approaches to design and contemporary quilt making, some approach the creative process from an art base and from an experiential perspective; each producing very different and varied 2 and 3D textiles ranging from traditional bed quilts to art textiles and wall art.

Our members say they value participation in the group because it is:

Creative

Diverse

Experimental

Generous

Friendly

Innovative

Energetic and provides a forum for talented creative textile artists to share ideas.

For more details about the group see http://wbctgroup.blogspot.co.uk or

contact Sarah Showers. sjtreen@gmail.com or 07837638228

January 2016

Meeting is on January 11th.

It's a sharing lunch and a chance to continue working on our pieces for an exhibition in April.

We will also use this session to plan an exhibit and demonstration at Northampton University Faculty of Arts on Janurary 26th.

Details of this to be posted after our 11th meeting.

Follow up and future sessions

Sorry no photos yet of the continuing work from our Gillian Travis
day in October. Some really interesting pieces coming through.
Can't wait to see how they progress.
Over lunch we made decisions about the next few sessions.

December - bring your own work. As a few people will be missing
our seasonal lunch will happen in January.

January, February, March, April - are dedicated to our 'Journey' work
for exhibition at the end of April. We will spend some of the time
planning our exhibit and bringing it together ready to hang.

See you all soon.

Design day with Gillian Travis

Wow! Wonderfully creative and inspiring day, thanks to Gillian for kickstarting us on a different journey.

As you can see from these photos of work in progress, we had a lovely time!

Just a reminder that at our November meeting we will be continuing to work on these and progressing our own response to Gillian's input.

Thanks to Ann for Cake and Milk, Sue for lovely Corn bread and Lemon Drizzle cake.

Wednesday 21st October

Something to look forward to...............

Wednesday 21st October 2015
'Interchange Applique' with Gillian Travis

Requirements:

Design Work:
An image with a simple shape.
Coloured paper - make sure it is contrasting colours
Glue stick eg Pritt or similar
Paper scissors
Pencil
Sketch book

Fabric Samples:
Bondaweb - Transfer adhesive
Fabric scissors
Batik fabrics or similar weight cotton fabric, in bright and contrasting
colours and not too patterned.
Backing fabric eg. light weight white or cream cotton.
505 spray - a temporary adhesive spray, useful but not essential.

Rotary cutter, cutting board, ruler.
Irons and boards will be provided.

We have the hall from 9am until 4pm. We need to set up tables, etc so
that we can start promptly 10am.

Don't forget your lunch!

Looking forward to seeing you all on the 21st.

Cut and Stretch

Thanks to Yvonne for a great design exercise.

We  'Cut and Stretched' today producing some interesting results.

You can tell those who had done this before because they knew

where they could interpret the instructions in their own way.

Something to try next time.........

 

Monday 12th October

Our next session is 'Cut and Stretch' - a design exercise.

No room for procrastinating.  

Herewith the needs list for the ‘Cut and Stretch’ process which we shall attempt on Oct. 12th.

Requirements:

Initially:

cutting equipment

sewing machine and sewing equipment

4 pieces of fabric – 3 toning, one contrast, about A4 size

(you may like to paint or stencil your fabric before you begin)

machine threads mainly to match the fabrics – some contrasts could bring the piece alive

threads in the same colourway for hand stitching – if you wish to hand stitch

small pointed embroidery scissors – for cutting out small fabric shapes

Bondaweb?

Please will people who have done this before bring their pieces; but we shall not be seeing them till the end of the meeting.

Many thanks

Yvonne