Designing Workshop

We had a very good day on Saturday. People brought some very strong ideas of their own and then we were able to work together to come up with a design for a hanging/quilt.

Suzanne has developed a design for a lace angel which she is now working. She saw the angel when we went for our walk to Kensal Green Cemetery and took a photo.

We are very lucky to have such a beautiful design  there is a lot of movement in her, she looks really lively. We used the lace angel as a focal point for the design.

I was very taken with another photo that Catherina took on the walk of a view through the colonnade. We used this photo as a guide and then Designed by audition. We tried a number of different natural dyed fabrics together by pinning them up to a large cork board. The photo above shows our first efforts. As you can see we all gave our opinions. Between us we had lots ideas and the discussions were passionate but not heated, I really enjoyed it.

 Marian and Catherina are trying out some more ideas.

This is the final piece. Its about 5 feet high by four feet wide, you can't see the details but it has some of the flowers that Marian found on it and also some photoshop images of stone passion flowers that Judith has composed. These add texture and interest when you get close. Its only pinned to a board at the moment and I will be doing a little more dyeing as some pieces of cloth were not big enough. The pale grey section on the left hand side will run from top to bottom.

The next workshop will be putting the pieces together, and stitching them.