- £95 or 3 monthly payments of £33
Slow Stitch - Landscape - Stitching the Stillness
This course will guide you through gathering ideas, collecting fabrics and using paint and print to create a background for you to stitch on. Allowing the textures of the cloth to help create landscape and the stitch to fuse layers together, the entire process will be one of permission to slow down, take solace from the quiet and engage with the meditative process of slow stitch.
What is slow stitch? It is hand stitching with fabrics that are often found, or repurposed. You create an intuitive collage of fabrics, then use a simple hand stitch, to add image and detail. As you go along you decide what stitches to use, add colours and create a unique textile piece. What do you do with it? You can frame it, make it into something, or keep it in your soul space to remind you of the peace and clarity of creating it. It is an intuitive, peaceful process that isn't rushed and takes you on a journey of creativity. There are no rules, no right and wrong. The aim is to slow down and take your time, and like a meditation, to simply breathe and create peacefulness, one stitch at a time.
Here is a little more information about the course. If you have any questions, you can ask me by using the links at the foot of the page.
You may have completed another of my landscape inspired courses and now you want to move your ideas and images beyond the sketchbook into textiles. You may be inspired by the beauty of a pared back winter landscape. You may be seeking a project to work on through the still months.
The design and research content of this course will take you about 10 hours to complete - with hand-stitch time then taking as long as you wish to complete and dependent on the scale of your project.
This course will guide you through gathering ideas, collecting fabrics and using paint and print to create a background for you to stitch on. Allowing the textures of the cloth to help create landscape and the stitch to fuse layers together, the entire process will be one of permission to slow down, take solace from the quiet and engage with the meditative process of slow stitch. This will be an exploration in colour, texture, shape and stitch.
This course is for you:
- if you would like to experience a process of creating that makes you slowdown
- if you love nature's bare winter landscape and gentle palette
- if you would like to design from what you see to create a unique piece
- if you love abstract landscape and nature's symbols, birds, trees, sun
- if you'd like to use simple stitch techniques (influenced by boro and kantha stitching) to create texture
Materials you will need for the class:
- fabrics - cotton, calico - linens - repurposed cotton shirts or pillowcases. Basic requirement - 1m of calico, 1m of white cotton (wash before use).
- acrylic paints and brushes
- erasers to make into stamps
- scissors and embroidery threads and sewing cotton
What you will learn on this course:
- design process to create a winter landscape
- painting and stamping fabric
- working intuitively to capture the essence of nature
- working in a palette to express the season
- slow stitching with intention, creating stillness in yourself as you stitch through the season.
I've planned the content to give you a full weekend of creativity to kickstart a hand-stitch project that you can give as much time as you would like to.
You will be invited to join my Facebook group so that you can share your ideas and receive feedback from myself and others. It will help keep you inspired, motivated and accountable for getting started and fulfilling your create aspirations.
This course consists of:
- Welcome session
- 6 video tutorials allowing you to follow me as I design and create a slow stitched landscape
- Set tasks for you to go through the processes and create your own sketches and drawings from your own set up.
- A concluding session
- A Facebook Group forum to allow you to share ideas and get inspiration and feedback.
- Access to my ongoing Facebook community to continue your creative journey in a supportive, like-minded community
What you will need to have:
- The materials on the materials list (see above)
- Access via a PC or laptop to my website where you can access the password protected pages
- Broadband wifi with sufficient speed to watch video content
- You will also need a willingness to have a go and try new ways of working - not focussed on the outcomes, but on developing a creative flow and adapting new techniques
- Time that you can set aside for yourself
What to expect:
- After signing up you will get email confirmation of your booking. Access is unlimited.
- You can access the course immediately. Delivery is via video tutorials that you can start, stop and repeat as you wish.
- There are tasks set for you to try what you have been shown in the videos.
- You are encouraged to take photos of what you create and upload them to the course Facebook Group.
- You can ask questions in the group, or by email.
If you have any questions, please get in touch by email by clicking the envelope icon in the page footer - you may find an answer to your question in the Frequently Asked Questions page (FAQ's). The link is at the top of the page.
Stitching the Stillness student 2022
"I really enjoyed creating the mood board, painting and stamping fabrics as well as putting together shapes to create a landscape. Under Helen's guidance I learnt a lot, particularly not to be afraid of going out of my comfort zone - like worrying about what it would look like at the end, and tried not to be precious about making mistakes."
Contents
Welcome to Stitching the Stillness
Hello!
Sessions
Session 1 - Moodboards
Session 2 - Fabrics
Session 3 - Printing on Fabrics
Session 4 - Composition
Session 5 - Painting the details
Session 6 - Stitch Sampling
Session 7 - Stitch Meditation
Session 8 - Bonus Lesson
Next steps
How to build on what you have learned
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