90-minute workshop – cost £25.00
Learn how to machine embroider a seascape deep pink sunrise collage.
Yvonne will share her tips and techniques on how to create your very own fabric art collage. Learn how to create your piece using, ready hand painted base to work on, hand dyed fabrics, hand printed fabrics, voile netting fabric, ribbon and simplistic embroidery stitches and lastly adding embellishments to pull the scenic fabric collage together.
During workshop you will learn how to build your collage with prepared fabrics and then using the sewing machine learn to machine embroider your fabrics and wildflower design onto a prepared hand painted base.
The kit for the workshop provided includes handbook with full instructions to create your wildflower fabric collage, hand painted base, fabrics, threads, ribbon, handmade buttons, needles and thimble.
Advisory Note:
This workshop is great for beginners or intermediate level sewers over the age of 16.
Meet the Tutor
Yvonne Pratt
Yvonne is a contemporary textile artist based in Norfolk, England. Having always been a creative person with a love for drawing and using texture to create art, it was not until later in life through taking on a BA(Hon) degree in Textiles Design and then, a Masters in contemporary craft practice that textiles became a passion.
Having had the privileged of working within education most of her adult life this has allowed Yvonne’s skills to be transferred to working as a freelance workshop teacher turning her hand to both hand and free-motion embroidery.
Yvonne is a truly passionate and highly motivated maker who loves to pass, on her knowledge and skills in hand crafted textiles