Advanced Stitched Textiles
This course is a replacement for the City & Guilds level 3 Diploma course in Machine Embroidery or Patchwork and Quilting
This is a follow-on course for students who have completed a Creative Stitched Textiles Course or the City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Machine Embroidery or Patchwork and Quilting. Please note this new course will include both hand and machine techniques.
- Duration: this is a two year course of three terms per year
- Fees: £215 per term for WI members, £235 per term for non members There is an additional one off Creative Stitch registration fee of £90 payable at start of first term
- Tutor: Mary McIntosh
- Application Form: Creative Stitch Course Application Form
- Contact: Contact the course tutor
This course will run on Mondays (6 sessions per term) 10.00-15:00 or over two long weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) per term. Tutor Mary McIntosh
Term one
- Design work based on your chosen theme including decorating papers, collage, pattern,
- Surface Design including dyeing, painting, printing and resist techniques
- Experimental stitch techniques including working with paper, plastics and working with soluble fabrics
- Assessment required – looking at the work of a contemporary designer/maker
Term two
- Design work on texture and shape on your chosen theme
- Creating texture and shape in stitch
- 3D work
- Creating your own fabrics
- Making beads and tassels
- Paper making, silk paper and weaving
- Assessment required – looking at the work of a second contemporary designer/maker
Term three
- Fabric manipulation inc burning techniques
- Image transfer
- Surface design including indigo dyeing, screen printing and discharge techniques
- Hand stitch techniques
- Assessment required – looking at the work of a third contemporary designer/maker
- Assessment required – to design and make a ‘set of items’ e.g. three bowls
Term four
- Felt making
- Embellishing
- Working with metals, paper and plastics
- Lamination and foiling
- Working with spunbond fabrics
- Silk painting
- Assessment required – looking at the work of the final contemporary designer/maker
- Assessment required – to design and make a piece of costume for a fantasy film set
Term five
- Review and sampling of techniques relevant to own work
- Assessment required – to design and make a framed piece of embroidered work
Term six
- Review and sample use of water soluble/heat dispersible fabrics
- Use of old/decayed texiles
- Assessment required – to design and make a textured wall-hanging or quilt