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We are hosting a Doughty’s Road Show Fabric sale on Saturday 6th December at Kislingbury Village Hall, Ashley Court, Kislingbury Northampton NN7 4JE
Open 1030am to 2.30pm
£2.00 entry fee, cash please.
Doughty fabrics and group sales items can be made my card .
Tea, Coffee and Biscuits also available.
Slimbridge exhibition is now closed and has been taken down. We are delighted with the footfall the exhibition enjoyed. It’s time to take a breather before we contemplate our next show. So we are now working on whatever is top of our own agaendas while enjoying working together without pressure.
Meet the Artist Days
Art2Stitch members will be working at Slimbridge on the following dates:
Thursday 7th August / Saturday 9th August / Tuesday 19th August / Thursday 21st August / Saturday 23rd August / Wednesday 3rd September / Saturday 6th September / Friday 19th September / Tuesday 30th September / Saturday 4th October
Further Artist's days may be added over time.
Art2Stitch members will be working at Slimbridge on the following dates:
Thursday 7th August / Saturday 9th August / Tuesday 19th August / Thursday 21st August / Saturday 23rd August / Wednesday 3rd September / Saturday 6th September / Friday 19th September / Tuesday 30th September / Saturday 4th October
Further Artist's days may be added over time.
Image from Meet the Artist Day. 23rd August
Saturday 23rd August
Tracy Allen and Sam Brundish
Tracy’s Biography
I work mainly in abstraction, inspired by mechanical and architectural forms, as well as flora that have an architectural like structure. Annotated sketchbooks and photographs provide a rich source of information and help to organise the creative development process.
Focussing on using materials I have to hand, salvaged, second hand and recycled, I paint and print many of my own fabrics and construct my work using techniques inspired by my production arts and millinery background, Use of colour is inspired by the subject matter and I embellish and manipulate textiles with embroidery, mark making and machine stitch to create textural pieces.
I am invariably drawn to producing an object, or a hanging piece that contains 3D elements.
Tracy Allen and Sam Brundish
Tracy’s Biography
I work mainly in abstraction, inspired by mechanical and architectural forms, as well as flora that have an architectural like structure. Annotated sketchbooks and photographs provide a rich source of information and help to organise the creative development process.
Focussing on using materials I have to hand, salvaged, second hand and recycled, I paint and print many of my own fabrics and construct my work using techniques inspired by my production arts and millinery background, Use of colour is inspired by the subject matter and I embellish and manipulate textiles with embroidery, mark making and machine stitch to create textural pieces.
I am invariably drawn to producing an object, or a hanging piece that contains 3D elements.
Sam's Biography
To follow
To follow
Thursday 21st August
Sheila Alink-Brunsden and Carol Taylor
Sheila’s Biography:
A short history of an addictive hobby
The arrival of my granddaughter was the catalyst for me to explore quilting. I had been able to sew since primary school but disregarded quilting as being way too fiddly and old fashioned! Approaching retirement from my career in scientific event organisation I realised just how joyful quilting and patchwork might be as a hobby. Starting with traditional quilting I leapt into it full of enthusiasm but with little knowledge - I most surely learnt a lot the hard way.
Discovering and joining local quilting groups was an eye opener - quilters share their knowledge and skills so openly and willingly - and always in a very sociable atmosphere. As I drifted away from traditional quilting towards contemporary I came to realise that I was trying to play jazz before I had learnt the classics and that I needed a formal structured course to fill the many gaps. Being a member of Art2Stitch provided me with so many new techniques, skills to develop and paths to follow. But the gaps grew even bigger. At FoQ in 2022 I bumped into a fellow quilter who was finishing her online Diploma with Gillian Cooper and there was the solution for me. I have just finished the course and was proud to enter both my miniature and large quilt at FoQ 2025. Everything to play for now in this exciting next stage of being a textile artist.
Sheila Alink-Brunsden and Carol Taylor
Sheila’s Biography:
A short history of an addictive hobby
The arrival of my granddaughter was the catalyst for me to explore quilting. I had been able to sew since primary school but disregarded quilting as being way too fiddly and old fashioned! Approaching retirement from my career in scientific event organisation I realised just how joyful quilting and patchwork might be as a hobby. Starting with traditional quilting I leapt into it full of enthusiasm but with little knowledge - I most surely learnt a lot the hard way.
Discovering and joining local quilting groups was an eye opener - quilters share their knowledge and skills so openly and willingly - and always in a very sociable atmosphere. As I drifted away from traditional quilting towards contemporary I came to realise that I was trying to play jazz before I had learnt the classics and that I needed a formal structured course to fill the many gaps. Being a member of Art2Stitch provided me with so many new techniques, skills to develop and paths to follow. But the gaps grew even bigger. At FoQ in 2022 I bumped into a fellow quilter who was finishing her online Diploma with Gillian Cooper and there was the solution for me. I have just finished the course and was proud to enter both my miniature and large quilt at FoQ 2025. Everything to play for now in this exciting next stage of being a textile artist.
Saturday 9th August: Carol Taylor and Helen Nelson are at Slimbridge during the day.j
Carol’s Biography has has been involved in craft and stitching for as long as she can remember… sitting with her grandmother playing with the button jar while her grandmother knitted as she grew older she made dolls clothes with the off cuts from her mothers dressmaking. As a teenager she made her own clothes and the termly outfit required by her school. Carol continued stitching while at college and started doing some patchwork.. starting with the inevitable hexagons.
Work, marriage and two daughters left little time to sew, so once the girls were older in around 1994 she enrolled on the City and Guilds (C&G) 2 year embroidery certificate course, followed by the patchwork and Quilting certificate.
During this time Carol was actively involved with the Embroiders Guild, running the young embroiders group and ultimately becoming chair of her local branch.
Carol joined a few textile art groups in the 2000’s .. which lead to creating work for exhibitions. Art2Stitch became a key point for her from 2014 or so.
As well as exhibiting with Art2Stitch in 2023 Carol decided to enrol in the C&G Diploma in Parchwork and Quilting… 29+ years after the certificates! It has been a wonderful experience and Carol has developed an understanding and love of dyeing, printing and creating her own fabrics. One of her cherished pieces is her miniature quilt, standing at 11.5 inches square, made with a range of self dyed fabrics and with reverse appliqué. Carol entered it into the Festival of Quilts this year and received good feedback from the judges. Carol is still working on her final Quilt.
Work, marriage and two daughters left little time to sew, so once the girls were older in around 1994 she enrolled on the City and Guilds (C&G) 2 year embroidery certificate course, followed by the patchwork and Quilting certificate.
During this time Carol was actively involved with the Embroiders Guild, running the young embroiders group and ultimately becoming chair of her local branch.
Carol joined a few textile art groups in the 2000’s .. which lead to creating work for exhibitions. Art2Stitch became a key point for her from 2014 or so.
As well as exhibiting with Art2Stitch in 2023 Carol decided to enrol in the C&G Diploma in Parchwork and Quilting… 29+ years after the certificates! It has been a wonderful experience and Carol has developed an understanding and love of dyeing, printing and creating her own fabrics. One of her cherished pieces is her miniature quilt, standing at 11.5 inches square, made with a range of self dyed fabrics and with reverse appliqué. Carol entered it into the Festival of Quilts this year and received good feedback from the judges. Carol is still working on her final Quilt.
Helen’s Biography: My introduction to textiles was through patchwork quilting. Having retired from art teaching I did a city and guild course in embroidery which has led to the combination of painting ,mixed media and stitch . Working on various challenges with Art2stitch has helped with my work development which is helping my future development
Thursday 7th August: Sally Hutson and Chris Marchant will be at Slimbridge from 1030 to 1500 to chat to visitors and to continue to work on their current projects.
Sally's biography: Sally Hutson is a Textile Artist now living in Worcester. Pattern, colour and texture are stitched together from antique and new fabrics using free motion machine stitching, applique, quilting and embroidery techniques to create rich decorative painterly pieces.
Sally is intrigued by design elements and symbols within illuminated manuscripts, Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Iconography. A fascination with all things medieval, her work features faces, figures and text. As a Textile Historian Sally believes old and worn cloth have memory held within the weave and threads. She stitches these fading memories into a beautiful rich narrative of past times and lives.
Her work was Slimbridge All Sewn Up exhibition concentrates on birds and their amazing song. Her work shows an extensive use of applique, using commercial fabrics, silks and velvets.
Sally has an MA in Textiles and Anthropology. Exhibited Nationally and Internationally. She has taught full time for 20 years in college and university within Art & Design Dept.
Sally also designs and sells textile kits for embroiderers and quilters using the unique name of StitchyWoowoo. She has designed two embroidery kits especially for Slimbridge, which are available for sale in the shop
Sally's biography: Sally Hutson is a Textile Artist now living in Worcester. Pattern, colour and texture are stitched together from antique and new fabrics using free motion machine stitching, applique, quilting and embroidery techniques to create rich decorative painterly pieces.
Sally is intrigued by design elements and symbols within illuminated manuscripts, Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Iconography. A fascination with all things medieval, her work features faces, figures and text. As a Textile Historian Sally believes old and worn cloth have memory held within the weave and threads. She stitches these fading memories into a beautiful rich narrative of past times and lives.
Her work was Slimbridge All Sewn Up exhibition concentrates on birds and their amazing song. Her work shows an extensive use of applique, using commercial fabrics, silks and velvets.
Sally has an MA in Textiles and Anthropology. Exhibited Nationally and Internationally. She has taught full time for 20 years in college and university within Art & Design Dept.
Sally also designs and sells textile kits for embroiderers and quilters using the unique name of StitchyWoowoo. She has designed two embroidery kits especially for Slimbridge, which are available for sale in the shop
Chris's biography:
Having retired from a working life in book publishing, Chris now devotes as much of her time as possible to her textile practice.
A.love of stitch was born when she inherited boxes of sequins and beads from her grandmother and for the first time learned she embellished stage gowns for London’s west end theatres in the 1930s. An interest in stitching blossomed though it was only when retirement came along she was able to really indulge that love and embarked on several years learning about surface design and colouring cloth, culminating in achieving a City & Guilds Diploma in Patchwork & Quilting.
Chris has always been drawn to nature and combines interests in birdwatching and photography with her textile work. The opportunity to exhibit at Slimbridge was a golden opportunity to embrace these loves and strongly informs Chris’s work in Art2Stitch’s exhibition. ‘I particularly enjoy making mixed media work, frequently combining stitch with paper and photography’.
Chris’s pieces in this body of work grew from memories of winter visits to Slimbridge over the years - watching the wild geese and swans on the wintering grounds from the Estuary Tower hide, kingfishers from the Kingfisher hide, a glorious late summer’s visit in 2022 with the impressive sight of 11 common cranes browsing the Dumbles and a walk to Middle Point at the far end of the summer walkway with its panoramic views of the magnificent Severn Estuary and the shepherd’s hut. Photographs taken that day play a fundamental part in Chris’s pieces displayed in this exhibition.
Having retired from a working life in book publishing, Chris now devotes as much of her time as possible to her textile practice.
A.love of stitch was born when she inherited boxes of sequins and beads from her grandmother and for the first time learned she embellished stage gowns for London’s west end theatres in the 1930s. An interest in stitching blossomed though it was only when retirement came along she was able to really indulge that love and embarked on several years learning about surface design and colouring cloth, culminating in achieving a City & Guilds Diploma in Patchwork & Quilting.
Chris has always been drawn to nature and combines interests in birdwatching and photography with her textile work. The opportunity to exhibit at Slimbridge was a golden opportunity to embrace these loves and strongly informs Chris’s work in Art2Stitch’s exhibition. ‘I particularly enjoy making mixed media work, frequently combining stitch with paper and photography’.
Chris’s pieces in this body of work grew from memories of winter visits to Slimbridge over the years - watching the wild geese and swans on the wintering grounds from the Estuary Tower hide, kingfishers from the Kingfisher hide, a glorious late summer’s visit in 2022 with the impressive sight of 11 common cranes browsing the Dumbles and a walk to Middle Point at the far end of the summer walkway with its panoramic views of the magnificent Severn Estuary and the shepherd’s hut. Photographs taken that day play a fundamental part in Chris’s pieces displayed in this exhibition.
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ART2STITCH welcomes you to their showcase of work.
We are a group of textile artists meet monthly to enjoy sharing our work, learning new techniques or subverting others to create new and interesting work. The group welcomes new members interested in developing their own work, being collaborative and exhibiting work. As a part of our Slimbridge exhibition we have set ourselves a group challenge. Following the "By Design" collaborative challenge, developed by them and exhibited and published. Groups of four are creating a starter piece which they circulate around the group for each other member to do whatever they feel appropriate to the work and hand it on again. . Each member is then creating their own piece on an identical starting point. We expect to complete by May 2025. More details next month
A number of these completed works will be on display at Slimbridge.
The following page contains information about the group and the articles written for Contemporary Quilt
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From Sarah's Wetlands tryptic.
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Images of work at the Slimbridge Wildfowl Centre
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