Here is more stitched goodness from the NW Regional AGM Day for you to enjoy.
Remember the Four Lines Project? (see previous posts here, here and here) Below are yet more lovely embroidered and embellished Lines.
This brightly decorated Blue piece, above, was really eye catching. Here it is again (without the flash) so that you can see the cacophony of stitching in detail. It reminds one of fireworks so is very apt for the season.
A good idea is to put your work to good use by making it the decorative interest on a box or a cover for your 'tech' as the stitcher of this calm green and amber coloured piece has done below.
They have also changed the shape by using points on each square and cutting the base fabric into an octagon. Very clever. It is a very luxurious looking pouch indeed.
More colour below, with this Purple Blue piece showing Fly, Pistol, Bullion and Seed stitches with French Knots and Button Hole Wheels.
Another unusual and unique Four Line piece is this Floral Tribute to common garden flowers, some are classed as weeds even. What a lovely idea.
Here we have some of the Butterflies stitched on this years National Day of Stitch in August. Read about it here in this post.
Lovely quilted butterflies, above and below more colourful stitched butterflies adorn a tree to make up a pretty wall hanging. Very sweet.
Thank you to the members who stitched these lovely pieces for allowing photos for our Blog.
Each year the NW Region of the Embroiderers Guild produces a 'Journal' that has a small paragraph/mini report of the activities of each Branch in the region which is often accompanied with photos of members/projects.
This year a competition was held to pick an embroidered piece for the photo on the front cover.
Here is a piece stitched by one of our own members of the Lytham St Annes Branch.
Visitors to Lytham who have ever walked the full length of the prom toward Fairhaven Lake should recognise this delightful Summer House so accurately depicted below.
The colours are much brighter in reality but the flash version did not show all the detailed stitching which has gone into this lovely piece.
The Winning Piece was an unusual Grey Giraffe, so look out for it on the cover of next years Journal that should be out in April 2018 in time for Regional Day.
For the past few years at the Embroiderers Guild North West Regional AGM after morning business is concluded, we have had a relaxing stitching activity in the afternoon.
You may remember the Circles and Four Lines previously posted? Now created for us by the same talented and very creative lady, Sandra Kendall from the North Lonsdale Branch; we have Paisley :-) Wow! Just where does she get her ideas? and how wonderfully generous she is in preparing for us 40 individual (probably more! as there were several left over) hand dyed, hand printed, appliqued, backed with vilene and ready to sew pieces of 'paisley' for our activity.
Here are some of the samples Sandra stitched ready to give us some inspiration. You will have to read on further to find out why there is a safety pin in each one. Meantime enjoy the lovely, brightly coloured threads and stitches on each paisley piece.
Pretty turquoise with a shisha mirror and beads, above; and below, lines of feather stitches frame the beads in centre.
These two paisley examples have an appliqued piece in their centres, the one above has a printed flower that has been embroidered.
Whipped or Ribbed Spider Webs aka Wheels in the centres of these two above and below. The lilac paisley has variations of Button Hole stitch and the blue below uses a variegated pink thread to good effect to make Chain Stitches.
And what are all these Paisley beauties for you may wonder? Well, ponder no more! Here he is waiting for the rest of his tail feathers to be stitched by our members. This lovely Peacock will make a sumptuous wall hanging once he is complete.
You really need to see it in person to imagine the scale - as true to form Sandra has come up with another very Big Idea.
We can't wait to see the end result next year. Meantime we are busy stitching and embellishing our individual Paisley Feathers to send off to be added to the Peacock Tail.
Here is one in progress stitched by a member of the Lytham St Annes Branch.
The Button Hole Wheels will have silver beads in each centre and the flower still needs to be Satin Stitched. We are all really enjoying this challenge and would like to thank Sandra for all her hard work in preparing such an lovely activity for us.
Another Embroiderers Guild Branch 'Challenge' was to make a line of Bunting where each flag was a stitched work that represented the member's birth month.
Here a couple of flags that I managed to snap before I had to head off and grab lunch.
These Birthday Month Pennants were stitched by members of the Rochdale Branch.
A jolly Snowman with icicle beads, what a great idea! for January followed by pretty flowers in February with button centres. Who doesn't love using buttons in this way? :-)
Here we have two pennants for May - Needle point above, beautiful colours and beautifully stitched; and below, are gorgeous butterflies. Nice work.
Quite a few people also brought in their finished projects that were started at the recent Summer School held at Waddow Hall in Clitheroe. Again I just managed to photograph a couple as some people left after the morning business session was concluded taking their work with them as they had travelled a long way to be with us which was much appreciated.
The fish above, is on a background made in the class taught by Kim Thittichai, see post and this one, to look at more backgrounds made with paint and a fusible textile. Fabulous embroidery and what a lovely way to use up a bit of lace as air bubbles in the water?
You may have seen another Heavenly Bluebird stitched from the same kit by Nicola Jarvis but this one had its beginnings at the Summer School, see post here.
Its a really lovely design to embroider and as you can see stitches up beautifully as does the Robin also worked in Crewel wools, below. Simply gorgeous.
To see more lovely stitched goodness look out for the next 4 posts coming up soon. Thank you to all the talented embroiderers for sharing their work with us.
