A ‘slow stitch’ weekend workshop with Textile Artist and Art teacher Pip Steel, where the emphasis will be on the process of hand stitching using a meditative approach to create beautiful items.

Immerse yourself in experimenting with a variety of slow stitching methods, on the wonderful selection of colours, patterns and textures of Smitten textile offcuts. Pip will guide you through a variety of stitch techniques using a range of different threads including cotton and bamboo.

Over the two days you will have the option to:

Create a unique piece of fabric art, or create a selection of unique slow stitch samples, or bring in a favourite item to decoratively mend.

You will also have the opportunity to create a brooch each.

All essential materials will be provided

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Pip Steel is a practising textile artist and was a long-time secondary school visual art and art history teacher. She has taught embroidery through the Correspondence School, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu, and taken many adult education workshops. Up until recently, she has been a museum educator at Te Manawa Museum and Art Gallery. She has exhibited widely and was a principal artist in the Globe Theatre Curtain project, and a participant in the Under Southern Skies exhibition, which toured nationally and to the Barbican in London. She has developed a particular interest in Sashiko stitching, a slow running stitch, and started a collection of Japanese indigo Boro textiles, which has become a passion.