Webs and Wheels Requirements List

May's guild meeting will be a Members' Session, led by Janet Wright. She will be doing a practical workshop, entitled Webs and Wheels, and asks members to bring along the following items:


Requirements List

• Backing Fabric – Any colour to tone with your choice of threads, cotton or linen preferred. Any size from 6 inches square to A 4 size.
• Embroidery Hoop or support fabric e.g. thin felt or pound shop dusters.
• Paper and pencil to sketch ideas
• Variety of threads in your colour scheme e.g. stranded cotton, coton a broder, cotton perle, tapestry wools, etc. + needles and sewing kit

Janet is a very talented embroiderer who does beautiful hand stitching, and this promises to be an enjoyable session. The finished piece can be used as a sampler or made into a picture, box lid, book cover etc.





Detail from seahorse embroidery (by Heather Ramsden) featuring woven spiders web, buttonhole wheels and cups, and whipped spiders web.