Embroidery workshop success

What a great way to spend a Winter's Saturday! Today thirteen women met up at Motueka's Highland Pipe Band Rooms for a day of embroidery with Emma Marshall, of ASpankofZanz fame. Emma taught us the ins and outs of designing an image for crewel embroidery - from concept, through to tracing it on to the material, and then the stitches needed to bring the image to life. The participants spanned the full gamut - from very experienced needle-crafters, to those who hadn't picked up a needle since Brownies days; but everyone learned something, and everyone left feeling a great sense of achievement and camaraderie.

 Bringing the bee to life.

 Tutor, Emma Marshall, demonstrating how to separate embroidery thread.

Emma's next workshop will be on how to make "Felt Dudes". It will run next Saturday 21st June, 10am-3pm, $50 (including materials), at the Highland Pipe Band Rooms, in Motueka. Emma, a textiles and soft-materials artist, will guide you through the process of designing and hand-sewing your own mad little man out of felt. This is what the little guys look like:

If you would like to register for this, or any of the other Winter Workshops, contact Pania on ph: 03 5284115, or by email.