Lisa Mattock
October 5, 2024
gertrude's Garden
11:30am to 5:00 pm
In this class, Lisa shares how to use her specially designed templates to make a myriad of beautiful floral creations with a combination of bright bold colors, simple stitches, layered shapes and treasures from granny’s button box! You’ll start working on the floral blocks and then discuss background fabrics and ideas. As with all of Lisa’s projects, you’ll be free to use your own ideas and preferences with guidance and advice from her.
“Who’s Gertrude?” I hear you ask....
What a pleasure it is to introduce you to Gertrude Jekyll... (1843–1932)
A respected painter and craftswoman in the late Victorian era who then became famous for the beautiful cottage gardens she planted in England.
Gertrude’s distinct style used informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.
She used “naivety and charm” rather than “grandeur and formal structure” - an ethos that as “SlowStitchers” we share wholeheartedly.
Students will stitch their background using simple running stitch to connect their pieces of upcycled cloth before Lisa will show students simple techniques to create their own stitched garden of flowers.
So come, meander down a gravel path, and under the boughs of an ancestral tree we will find foxgloves and hollyhocks leaning against a crumbling stone wall. There’s clusters of summer’s bright flowers whose skirts we will brush as we pass by.
Tulips, lavender and snowdrops... Hydrangea, pansies
In this class, Lisa shares how to use her specially designed templates to make a myriad of beautiful floral creations with a combination of bright bold colors, simple stitches, layered shapes and treasures from granny’s button box! You’ll start working on the floral blocks and then discuss background fabrics and ideas. As with all of Lisa’s projects, you’ll be free to use your own ideas and preferences with guidance and advice from her.
“Who’s Gertrude?” I hear you ask....
What a pleasure it is to introduce you to Gertrude Jekyll... (1843–1932)
A respected painter and craftswoman in the late Victorian era who then became famous for the beautiful cottage gardens she planted in England.
Gertrude’s distinct style used informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.
She used “naivety and charm” rather than “grandeur and formal structure” - an ethos that as “SlowStitchers” we share wholeheartedly.
Students will stitch their background using simple running stitch to connect their pieces of upcycled cloth before Lisa will show students simple techniques to create their own stitched garden of flowers.
So come, meander down a gravel path, and under the boughs of an ancestral tree we will find foxgloves and hollyhocks leaning against a crumbling stone wall. There’s clusters of summer’s bright flowers whose skirts we will brush as we pass by.
Tulips, lavender and snowdrops... Hydrangea, pansies
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