Description
Please email/call me to enroll and chat through course content in more detail. The next course is due to run from September 2025.
Exactly what it says on the tin – this is a ten day course over ten months, designed to bridge the gap from initial designs to completed art work. We will explore the techniques and tools to depict your ideas in textile art. Full, fun and practical workshops, the days runs from 10am -3pm and explore a multitude of methods and topics dear to my heart…using inks and sketchbook work as a starting point – we take on projects such as painting and stitching, creating paper landscapes, rust dying and cards, textural techniques, machine embroidery stitches, water soluble methods, and printing. There is homework…and most stitch is done in between studio sessions at home. Main topic focus: Landscapes and flowers.
The course is very machine embroidery focused so students need to be confident stitchers on the machine. I focus more on design for textiles, rather than stitch techniques although we do have some practical stitch days in the studio where we cover cable stitch and various couching methods as well as other stitches for textural effects.
If you are itching to put your stitch skills into your own design work and happy to get messy with a paintbrush then this course is for you !
Jennifer Stearn –
Its been a year long delightful experience. Every session has been a new experience and now look forward to furthering all the knowledge I’ve gained.
Alex –
Loved you being here Jen – thank you x
Shan newhouse –
Very good course. Gave me enthusiasm and direction to do far more textile art. Lots of ideas and techniques to improve ability to design, plan, and execute pieces. And lovely to see everyone else’s versions of topics.
Joy Bliss (verified owner) –
Thank you Alex, it’s been a fabulous 10 months of learning so many different techniques! Thoroughly enjoyed being stretched and challenged. Lots more pics hanging on the wall now! So looking forward to Stage 2 in September! Joy xx
Karen Atwill –
Such an inspiring course, a springboard for developing your own work with lots of encouragement. Thank you Alex looking forward to working with you again.
Jan Pettifer –
Truly inspirational course to extend and inspire your stitch creativity. Alex is a fabulous tutor, who is both generous with her time and her knowledge. She will lead you through a range of techniques and options, whilst enabling you to follow your own style and inspirational choices. I cannot recommend this course highly enough. Join Alex in her world of mix media, you wont regret it for an instant.
Jackie Bentley –
What a wonderful, inspirational and varied course! It’s full of content, working with paints, inks, wallpaper, fabric, threads and free motion embroidery. Alex has given me the confidence to try new techniques and to develop my ideas in mixed media. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Alex
Amanda Nevill –
Design for Stitch was brilliant. It took me into directions I wouldn’t have otherwise gone in interesting ways. Alex is an excellent tutor, colour being one of her many strengths, but also, designing projects that are modern and exciting, linking ideas together in contemporary ways. Design for stitch is about creating textile art that is unique to each of us and that experience is very special. Thank you Alex.
Linda (verified owner) –
This was a thoroughly enjoyable course. I loved stretching myself into design, learning to make my own choices, knowing that Alex is always there with her expert guidance and ideas. Really pleased with the pieces produced and ready to develop my ideas further.
Fabulous experience.
Linda (verified owner) –
This was a thoroughly enjoyable course. I loved stretching myself into design, learning to make my own choices, knowing that Alex was always there with her expert guidance and ideas. Really pleased with the pieces produced and ready to develop my ideas further.
Fabulous experience.