The Embroiderers’ Guild of South Australia Inc.

CLASSES September 2017 -

Summer Week 2018

Closing date for Summer Week Bookings 8

th December 2017

All classes 9.45 am to 3.30 pm

16 Hughes Street, Mile End. SA 5031 Ph: 8234 1104 Fax: 8234 1513

www.embguildsa.org.au contact@embguildsa.org.au

Discover Smocking with Di Kirchner Date: Sunday August 20th 2017 Class Cost: $50 members $60 non-members + $20 for kit

Experienced smocking teacher Di Kirchner will lead you in discovering or revisiting smocking. Di’s beautiful smocking has been featured in Country Bumpkins Smocking and Embroidery magazine and she is a very experienced teacher.

This class is designed for beginners or those that have done smocking in the past and would like to brush up on their skills! In the Certificate Course it comes under the Fabric Manipulated heading. Traditionally smocking was used to enhance a garment but today it is also used in bag making, textile arts and other crafts.

The project is a simple design made into a Page Weight. It has 10 rows of smocking and is embellished with 2 bullion knot bees and a metallic beehive. When constructed each corner has a 4 petal bullion daisy. In the class we will prepare our pleated fabric and learn the 4 basic stitches which will be practised several times in the project.

The kit will include pleated fabric, 6 DMC threads, metallic thread, beehive, needles and calico. Students will need to buy own backing fabric and split peas.

Owls, Fowl and Feathered Friends with Glenys Leske

Date: Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September 2017 Class Cost: 100 members $120 non-members.

Continue or begin to make small wild, wonderful or whimsical birds from fabric remnants, bendable wire, fine cords, threads and stitch. Patterns for basic body shapes of birds including an owl will be supplied. The soft sculptured birds can have pose able legs and your own touches will bring them to life to make an individual creation. Bring along photos of your favourite birds for inspiration. The combination of fabrics, stitches, wrappings, tied or woven nests make the birds come alive.

Hems and Edges with Gay Sanderson Date: Sunday 10th and Sunday 17th September 2017 Class Cost: $100 members $120 non-members

Students will learn a variety of hems and edges suitable for counted thread embroidery including the joys of withdrawing threads and mitred corners. Bring along your unfinished items and Gay will advise you on beautiful ways to complete your work. Suitable for beginners and experienced.

Canvas Stitches on Linen with Carol Young Dates: Sunday 22nd October and Sunday 5th November 2017 Cost: $100 members $120 non members

Stitch a four panel counted linen design for a solid wooden scissor block. Design is stitched on 26 count linen with silk thread. A variety of canvas work stitches are used to create "string art" type patterns. Kit. Contains linen, threads, needles, wooden block and notes. Costs. $28 complete. Supply own silk and perle threads $20.

Discover Tambour Embroidery with Crystal Gaye Date: Sunday 8th October 2017 Class Cost: $50 members $60 non-members

Learn the mysteries of tambour embroidery. Used in many haute couture garments and to create amazing work with beads and sequins. $100.00 in cash for your kit. Kit includes: French Tambour hook, Silk Organza Fabric, Rassant Thread, Beads, Sequins, Pattern. Finished Size approximately 15 cm

Emerald Frog Project Bag with Nancy Williams Date: Sunday 12th and Sunday 19th November 2017 Class Cost: $100 members $120 non-members) Kit cost: $20

Using a variety of surface stitches in stranded cotton and silk and incorporating sequins and beads, this project borrows from modern crewel and from the recent craze for adult colouring books. Using fine detail and delicate colour shades, the finished piece can either be worked into a mini project bag or, for those people who don't like con-struction, will be just as attractive framed. Kit includes all threads, beads, sequins and fabric required for the project. Students will need to bring their regular stitching notions and a good magnifier.

Byzantine Blue Tile with Christine P Bishop Date: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th January 2018 ClassCost: $110 members $130 non-members

Do you like counted work? Christine has developed this design from drawings of Byzantine tiles in a museum in Athens. You do not have to work in blue, the colour choice is up to you. I have worked in blue (794) as I like it and it fits into my home. If you have a favourite colour in 28 count linen now is the time to use it. You can work with cream or white on coloured linens or coloured threads on winter white linen. You have a choice of a mat (finished size 33.5cm x 62.5cm) or a pincushion (finished size 6.7cm x 6.7cm). If you choose the pincushion you will have enough time to totally complete one and maybe begin another. Point of Star—Counted Stitches

An English Garden Band Sampler – the seventh band pattern - Birds and Caterpillars Band Pattern with Di Fisher Date: Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th January 2018 Class Cost $110 members $130 non-members

This is the perfect band to finish your English Garden Band Sampler or if you wish to stitch this band pattern as a single panel or start the sampler. An arcaded band pattern featuring two birds facing a central carnation, pomegranates, caterpillars, flowers, leaves and thistles. There are three 17th century band samplers with this pattern. They are in the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, the Embroiderers’ Guild (UK) and the St. Gallen Textile Museum in Switzerland. This class will be offered again in 2018.

Point of Star—Counted Stitches

Casalguidi Coffee Pot Cosy with Carol Topperwien Date: Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th January 2018 Class cost: $110 members $130 non-members

This coffee pot (cafetiere) cosy will keep your coffee warm! It is embellished in the style of casalguidi embroidery using a vineyard theme. I have used tassels for closure around a standard 6 cup coffee pot. There will be some kits available to purchase or you may prefer to use your own fabric and threads.

Australian Bush with Alison Cole Date: Thursday 18th and Friday 19th January 2018 Class cost: $110 members $130 non-members. Inspired by a previous larger piece of work – and our shift back to living in the bush, this piece is a creative embroidery that uses Goldwork and Stumpwork techniques along with silk painting and a splash of watercolour. In this workshop we will start off dying and painting on the silk. Once the dye has set, we will start on applying a dimensional tree trunk and working detached wings for the moth. The eucalypt leaves are worked in double sided brick stitch. This piece is approximately 10cm x 15cm.

Reticella Sampler with Christine P Bishop Date: Thursday 18th and Friday 19th January 2018 Class cost $110 members $130 non-members Either start or continue on this amazing Reticella Sampler with Christine. For those starting pre-work must be done.

Opus Anglicanum with Alison Cole Date: Saturday 20th and Sunday 21th January 2018 Class cost: $110 members $130 non-members

After a visit to the Opus Anglicanum exhibition in London, I was inspired to work up a project using this technique. In this workshop students will work on three small pieces that can be framed or popped in the lid of a box. While working on the three pieces, students will experience working on the three different types of background fabric and the stitches used in the 13th to 15th centuries. Techniques covered include surface couching, underside couching and split stitch.

Design Size: Robert the Little - 6cm diameter, Mary – 4cm x 9cm, Acorns – 4cm x 8cm.

Things to remember for your class • Classes are from 9.45am to 3.30 pm. Please plan to arrive a little early so

the teacher can start teaching the class promptly at 10.00am.

• Please turn your phone off or to silent.

• Lunch is not provided at classes. Tea, coffee and spring water are available. There are several cafes close to the guild for those who want to buy their lunch or there is a refrigerator available for BYO.

• We all have our favourite places to sit in the gallery however please be mindful that not everyone knows where others like to sit.

• The gallery will be open by 9.00. This is mostly for the teacher to set up so for those students who plan to arrive early please let the teacher set up before the class.

COPYRIGHT

Students are reminded that the class notes provided by a tutor to class participants are the intellectual property of the tutor and are covered automatically under Australian Copyright Laws. The notes must not be used by anyone else without the prior, written permission of the tutor to teach either individuals or groups whether for a fee or free. Although there is no copyright on the actual stitches, the tutor’s design and how the stitches are used within the design are covered under the Law. Considerable time is given to preparing class notes and the tutors are entitled to have this effort protected and all students are asked to respect this. Inadvertent or unknowing copying of designs is still a breach of copyright law. A) All class work or subsequent work using a tutor’s design cannot be sold without the written permission of the tutor. B) When displaying class work either within the Guild or at outside venues

the tutor’s design must be acknowledged. At all Guild classes, students will be asked to sign a form acknowledging their understanding of these terms. “The Embroiderers’ Guild of South Australia Inc. Special Purpose Fund is a tax deductible fund listed on the register of Cultural Organisations under Subdivision 30-B of the Income Assessment Act 1997”.