Monday 8th April

 ‘Embroidered Illuminated Script’

With Kathryn

Kathryn brought small kits of fabric and thread for this mini workshop for everyone, so members only needed to bring their sewing equipment and they were ready to start.  

Explaining the ways of embellishing your letter with small decorative illustrations.

There is a long history of illuminated manuscripts.  The pictures in the scripts were an important tool during medieval times when many people could not read. 

 

The letter is outlined then filled in with images and drawings 

Thank you Kathryn, I am sure we will find lots of ways to use our letters. 

 

Monday 4^th March

 

ZENTANGLES WORKSHOP

Led by Janice

 

For the March meeting Janice led a workshop super workshop for the group on designing Zentangles. 

Designing Zentangles is the art of creating sophisticated ‘doodles’.  The designs are worked in small squares called tiles, which look wonderful to see a block of all different designed tiles assembled as a mosaic.   

They are made using a pencil, ruler and fine nibbed pen.  These designs can be used in so many different crafts, a very useful skill to have.  

 

The designs can be made using a combination of dots, lines, curves and circles.  The strokes can be fine to broad and light to dark. 

Creative juices flowing

Here are some Val designed earlier

Thank you Janice for a most enjoyable afternoon