It's hard to believe it has been so long since I posted a blog entry. Some exciting news I received recently was my acceptance as a workshop tutor at the Handmade Festival being held in Wellington on the 2nd and 3rd of July next year. The programme has now been uploaded onto their website.

My two workshops are: Making Art with Everyday Stitches

This is classed as a Masterclass but will involve everyone having a go at making one of these Mandala stitcheries. We will look at different options for stitching, embellishing, and finishing.

The second workshop explores fabric stamping and we get to have a play and create our own unique piece of fabric that we will then use to make a pear pin cushion.
I also had fun making up a couple of kits to sell at the recent Christmas Market Fair in Christchurch. The Happy Hedgehog kitset was the big seller of the day. The kit includes wool felt, emboidery thread, beads and button for completing one of these gorgeous creatures.

The other popular kitset was the Quilted Coin Purse. This included the fabric, paper piece circle, pellon and purse frame.

I will be running workshops in both of these in the New Year and will have more details soon. If you have a group of 6 or more and live in the Christchurch area I would be happy to come along and run a mini workshop at your next stitchers meeting. $25.00/person includes the pattern, kitset and tuition. I could even bring along some bargain priced inspiration as well. If you are outside the Christchurch area and have a larger number of stitchers interested in doing something a little different then contact me too and I will see what I can arrange.

Now it is time to get back to my stitching group and help finish sewing the quilt top we are making for one of the ladies daughter's wedding. It is looking great!

Happy Stitching!

Fiona Marie Clark