OUR WORKSHOP.

Today was our special workshop with Nikki Parmenter, a textile artist from Macclesfield.
The samples that she brought to show us were absolutely stunning. As we viewed her work
 she was explaining how we would make the fabrics, this was all about layering and embellishing.

These are all the first fabric making pieces, synthetics and sheers
all things that glitter , total bling!
 

This fabulous elephant is free standing and about
3ftx4ft.

All these are the samples that Nikki brought . This one
is part of a group depicting religious stained glass, to
be displayed in a church.

This one was 10ft long.

The owl and the pussy cat.

Lots of this work in 3D.

This turtle is big enough to be  a pouffe.

These are about love and includes love birds, the rise of
Venus,Adam and Eve and lots more.

This is part of a range of birds.

This owl is really beautiful, the trainers are  there
for scale.

After making a piece of fabric, using scraps etc,
we soldered the fabric together, we then cut out
petals and a center, added lots of beads then hot
glued the flowers together.All who took part
really enjoyed the day. So much so that we have
asked Nikki to come again later in the year,
hopefully to make 3D frogs or Peacock,

Irene has added this gold border to her quilt, also another
blue border.

These are luxury bags from the fabric samples off the lady
at the curtain shop,  Linda really has nailed making these.