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Design to Stitch - North East Region Embroiderers Guild Summer Course - Wooler - August 20 - 22

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 Painting the 'Journey'. What a fabulous group of ladies. As you may well know, my courses and workshops are not for the faint hearted. I don't usually include anything 'finished' in my workshops which can be daunting when a student wants to know what is going to be produced. Frankly - I don't know! I just that know that 'something' will be created. If the student works through the process, in this case, creating original designs, then printing blocks then printed, layered and stitched fabric (or paper) - new and original work will occur. More 'Jouneys'. Teaching a three day workshop is a real treat. We get a chance to spend a day stitching. Something we all need to do more of.  Working on the 'expanded' exercise. There were two workshops running for the this Summer Course, a traditional stump work workshop upstairs and me in the more unusual workshop downstairs. The Summer Course was held at The Cheviot Centre in