Stitched Surfaces with Water Soluble Stabilizer
April 5 + 6
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Amanda McCavour
Materials Fee: $50 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 12
This workshop with Toronto artist, Amanda McCavour, will focus on constructing dynamic, textured, mixed media surfaces with machine embroidery and water soluble stabilizer. You will be encouraged to experiment with an assortment of materials like plastics, papers, and yarns to create a variety of samples exploring different texture and colour combinations.
In this brand-new offering, I will share the techniques I have developed to create ethereal sculptures. My work explores an often overlooked side of embroidery: the structural possibilities versus the inherent fragility of thread. This class will explore machine and hand embroidery to create botanical designs that explore texture and colour. Much of my current work deals with natural systems and environments. I translate environmental phenomena like clouds, flowers or ice into embroidery. I would love to share this exploration of the natural world through thread in this workshop exploring leaves, flowers and botany.
In this workshop, explore using Sulky® water soluble stabilizer by creating an embroidered botanical design held together with machine stitching and embellished with hand embroidery. Students will create their own botanical design from reference drawings and will translate this into textile with collaging threads, wool and yarns with stitched line.
Students will learn how to work with water soluble stabilizer and will explore texture, pattern and line with hand embroidery to create a one of a kind piece. Couching stitches, french knots and seed stitches will add colour and interest.
PLEASE NOTE: you will need to bring your own sewing machine to the studio for this workshop.
April 5 + 6
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Amanda McCavour
Materials Fee: $50 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 12
This workshop with Toronto artist, Amanda McCavour, will focus on constructing dynamic, textured, mixed media surfaces with machine embroidery and water soluble stabilizer. You will be encouraged to experiment with an assortment of materials like plastics, papers, and yarns to create a variety of samples exploring different texture and colour combinations.
In this brand-new offering, I will share the techniques I have developed to create ethereal sculptures. My work explores an often overlooked side of embroidery: the structural possibilities versus the inherent fragility of thread. This class will explore machine and hand embroidery to create botanical designs that explore texture and colour. Much of my current work deals with natural systems and environments. I translate environmental phenomena like clouds, flowers or ice into embroidery. I would love to share this exploration of the natural world through thread in this workshop exploring leaves, flowers and botany.
In this workshop, explore using Sulky® water soluble stabilizer by creating an embroidered botanical design held together with machine stitching and embellished with hand embroidery. Students will create their own botanical design from reference drawings and will translate this into textile with collaging threads, wool and yarns with stitched line.
Students will learn how to work with water soluble stabilizer and will explore texture, pattern and line with hand embroidery to create a one of a kind piece. Couching stitches, french knots and seed stitches will add colour and interest.
PLEASE NOTE: you will need to bring your own sewing machine to the studio for this workshop.
April 5 + 6
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Amanda McCavour
Materials Fee: $50 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 12
This workshop with Toronto artist, Amanda McCavour, will focus on constructing dynamic, textured, mixed media surfaces with machine embroidery and water soluble stabilizer. You will be encouraged to experiment with an assortment of materials like plastics, papers, and yarns to create a variety of samples exploring different texture and colour combinations.
In this brand-new offering, I will share the techniques I have developed to create ethereal sculptures. My work explores an often overlooked side of embroidery: the structural possibilities versus the inherent fragility of thread. This class will explore machine and hand embroidery to create botanical designs that explore texture and colour. Much of my current work deals with natural systems and environments. I translate environmental phenomena like clouds, flowers or ice into embroidery. I would love to share this exploration of the natural world through thread in this workshop exploring leaves, flowers and botany.
In this workshop, explore using Sulky® water soluble stabilizer by creating an embroidered botanical design held together with machine stitching and embellished with hand embroidery. Students will create their own botanical design from reference drawings and will translate this into textile with collaging threads, wool and yarns with stitched line.
Students will learn how to work with water soluble stabilizer and will explore texture, pattern and line with hand embroidery to create a one of a kind piece. Couching stitches, french knots and seed stitches will add colour and interest.
PLEASE NOTE: you will need to bring your own sewing machine to the studio for this workshop.
Amanda McCavour is an artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. By sewing into fabric that dissolves in water, she builds up stitched lines on a temporary surface. The crossing threads create strength so that when the fabric is dissolved, the thread drawing can hold together without a base. With only the thread remaining, these images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works raveled strength. McCavour holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and in May 2014 she completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. McCavour shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally and has completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio in Toronto, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. She has received numerous awards and scholarships from the Ontario Crafts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America, The Ontario Society of Artists, The Surface Design Association and The Embroiderers Guild of America.