Lorna Bateman
Teaching and sharing her designs and embroidery techniques is Lorna’s passion. She loves all forms of 3-dimensional, raised and textured embroidery and tries to encompass as many of these in her designs as possible.
Kathleen Laurel Sage
Kathleen is a freelance designer and embroiderer producing a wide range of innovative textile works. She enjoys blending traditional techniques with contemporary designs and unusual mediums to construct beautiful textiles -- from floral patterns in organza to goldwork.
Sallieann Harrison
Sallieann enjoys traditonal quilting techniques and has won several quilt show awards in the UK and the USA. Be sure to check out her wool applique projects using a blend of hand and machine sewing.
Mandy Shaw
Mandy brings a distinctive whimsical design style to traditional techniques such as embellishing with buttons and rik rak.
Maggie Davies
Maggie is well known for appliqué, hot ribbon art and needlefelting. She has developed a new simple technique for invisible needle turn appliqué, perfect points, inward Vs and perfectly rounded curves.
Fran Rose
Fran has a passion for beading and she loves sharing that excitement with her students
Susan Rhodes
Susan has been teaching embroidery for many years and loves to share her enthusiasm for a wide range of techniques.
Carolyn Sinclair
Carolyn is an experienced tutor in computerised design and computerised sewing machines.
Angela Daymond
Angela Daymond is a textile artist, quilter and teacher who just loves to stitch.
Embroidery with Lorna Bateman
Lorna joined Valerie and the film team to share with us her love of embroidery, embellishing and pinweaving; so we have some great films to share with you soon. And here they are surrounded by some of Lorna's beautiful work.
Interested in Hand Embroidery?
Don't these look wonderful? Learn goldwork from Hand & Lock and make shoes like this. Hand & Lock launch their festival of embroidery in July and they’ve got a fantastic offer for Mastered students. You can get any of their courses for a special concessionary price and if you leave a comment on this blog post you’ll be in with the chance of winning the course of your choice.
Roses from the Heart Bonnets
Val: Christina Henri who runs this programme won't be at Festival of Quilts this year but there will be a collection box for her bonnets near the Registration Point so you can drop them off there. If you don't know what I'm talking about you can watch the video of last year's Festival and meet Christina and learn more about her memorial to the lost women who were transported to Tasmania and Australia.
How to do Stumpwork embroidery
Learn all about this traditional embroidery through our workshop videos with Kelly Aldridge, a graduate of the Royal School of Needlework, England. www.justhands-on.tv/videos/category/4/
Embroidery classes with the best at the Royal School of Needlework
That has to be the Royal School of Needlework based at Hampton Court Palace, in Surrey. In this short video you can visit the classroom and see examples of the embroidery work that has been done in class and that you too can sign up for www.justhands-on.tv/videos/category/6/