The Patchwork Play online exclusive club is now open! www.stitchscape.uk/patchwork-play Stitchscape is developing. The first studio was in Newton-le-Willows and then I had one on Liverpool after I moved to the Wirral. There's still lots going on though including teaching workshops, holding sewcials and retreats. I have just taken on a new fabulous studio called The Glassroom in Little Neston and c
an't wait to get going with that. So many stitchers have to use the dining room table as their sewing space and have the hassle of tidying it up every time they have a meal and have the ironing table out in the kitchen constantly. That's not ideal, as I'm aware from personal experience! Another reason some stitchers will want to use the studio club is because they just love being around other stitchers, so that they can talk to people who 'get' what they're on about completely. We all learn and inspire each other as we all have different likes and skills. I love all kinds of stitchy fun but mostly patchwork and quilting. I seem to find myself making many wall hangings at the moment, which is probably because in the studio, I like to make projects which people can look at and maybe be inspired by and to make it clearly a happy place for stitchy escapees. My projects can include many kinds of mixed media of hand stitching, applique, machine embroidery and all kinds of fabric, beads and threads. I consider myself more of a modern quilter in my style. I absolutely love pattern and colour. I'm big into fabric designers like Alison Glass and Zandra Rhodes but I also know many British pattern designers. It's a big stitchy world. I am passionate about helping us all to make the time to be creative; to lose the fear and let go of comparison. Some of us prefer to create with the help of a pattern. Others of us like to 'free-wheel' it and the rest of us like to do a bit of a mix of both. We all need to give ourselves permission to enjoy and create. You can indeed do all that at home but when you mix that joy of creating and add some 'sewcial' group fun into the mix, you can get a great community going, which will envelop you and help you feel happy and included in this crazy busy world we live in. Connecting. Enjoying
See you soon.
