Past Workshops
OVGS Spring Workshop 2015 “Dancing Threads” Teacher: Hazel Blomkamp 23-24 May 2015 9:00-4:30 (Saturday and Sunday) 4th weekend in May
Location: Moncion Independent Grocers, 671 River Road, Community Room upstairs
Cost: OVGS Members: $75 (includes class and kit fee) + $35 book fee = $110 Non-guild members: $100 Maximum number of students: 20 Design Size is 120mm(4 3/4")x77mm (3")
Deposit of $25 due with sign up. Remainder due at April 2015 guild meeting Hazel's contract wiht the publisher requires that every student taking a class where one of the projects is taught own a copy of the book it is from. The piece "Dancing Threads" is from her latest book "Crewel Intentions"
Extra kits for any of Hazel's Projects: If you would like to purchase any kits that Hazel has for her projects, you must contact Hazel directly by email to deal directly with her. Hazel will bulk ship all kits for the class and any you have ordered to us here in Ottawa in time for the Workshop. Deadline to order from Hazel is 01 April 2015. |
November 8 & 9, 2014
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Autumn 2013: Marie Antoinette’s Shoe
A 2 day Workshop with Cindy Jackson
commissioned by the Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery
Please join us for an exciting 2 day workshop which will take place on 2 consecutive Sundays beginning November 24, 2013 and concluding on Decmber 1st. 2013.
This delightful three dimensional stitching project is completed on pale rose coloured satin with white cotton applique. Stitching includes various forms of goldwork. The shoe is equisitely embellished with Swarovski Crystals and tiny seed pearls. If you look closely at the photo on the left you will see that Marie Antoinette’s monogrammed initials are carefully incorporated into the sole of the shoe in tiny Swarowski crystals.
Don’t miss this one of a kind opportunity to join in on a 2 day workshop which was commissioned by the Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery from the artist.
Shoe is 9”L x 2 ½ ”W x 2 ½”H
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Spring Workshop with Alison Cole May 25 & 26, 2013 Rambling Clematis Ottawa Valley Guild of Stitchery is pleased to announce our spring workshop with internationally renowned embroidery teacher Alison Cole. Alison comes to us from Victoria , Australia and is particularly noted for her stumpwork and goldwork creations. After having so many people ask if they can purchase a kit for the Clematis I have now designed a smaller piece for those that love this gorgeous flower. My parents used to have them growing up the poles in the main shadehouse at their fuchsia nursery. This piece is worked in English Goldwork threads and Australian hand dyed Gumnuts silks on a background of black delustered satin. Design size: 15cm x 15cm.
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Napkins and BeyondNovember 17 & 18, 2012
Napkins & Beyond : An OVGS Exclusive WorkshopOn Nov 17 & 18 four brave souls from OVGS embarked on an exotic adventure under the expert guidance of our own Andrea Schlosser as we explored the uncharted territory of stitching , distressing and generally destroying a select bunch of paper napkins. The workshop involved creating new and very unique works of art by deconstructing the napkins in various ways and then transferring the results to felt backings for the added fun of stitching ourselves silly. A truly fun time was had by all which was added to by the beautiful, sunny November days we were given to enjoy our creativity constantly bathed in light. Our thanks to Andrea and to Moncion’s Independent Grocers for providing us with the room in which we were able to spread out and create our masterpieces.
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Machine embroidered LandscapesSpring 2012
Machine Embroidered Landscapes with Linda McBain Cuyler
I am a fibre artist who combines acrylic paint and free motion machine embroidery to create landscapes, gardenscapes and work influenced by one or the other. My work is colourful and textured and happy.
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The medieval revival of the latter half of the 19th century brought a renewed commercial aspect to hand embroidery. Well-known artists such as Edward Burne-Jones created designs especially for embroidery to be worked commercially at firms such as Morris & Co and |
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![]() Picket Fence Garden - February 2010
This small, colourful garden introduced many techniques, including using silk painting and opaque textile paints to create the background. Students choose their own colours for this. A simple couched gold thread border outlines the garden, adding a bit of sparkle. The students learned how to use combinations of several surface embroidery stitches to create each of the flowers in this dense garden. Margaret Vant Erve, Ottawa, OntarioA professional embroidery artist and teacher, lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her work depicts the Canadian rural and woodland landscapes, birds and floral studies. Margaret uses a variety of textile paint mediums and crayons to paint her fabric prior to applying hand and machine embroidery. Margaret is a certified teacher with the Embroiderers' Association of Canada and gives workshops across Canada. Her book, Window Gardens in Bloom,C&T Publishers, was released in 2005. Margaret's work has also appeared in international textile arts magazines such as STITCH, Workbox and Inspirations. Margaret's work can be found in many private collections across North America. |
![]() Box Making - Fall 2009Fabric covered boxes are a wonderful way to display small pieces of fibre art. A piece of canvas-work or cross-stitch can be the entire top or the piece of needlework could be set into a frame somewhat like matting a picture. While you can make a box any shape or make a cutout any shape, for this workshop, you will need a finished piece of needlework that is either square or rectangular. It needs to be ready for framing (ends sewn in, washed and stretched). The piece should have a finished size no larger than 5x5 or similar rectangle to allow you to complete the box sufficiently to understand all the steps involved. You will decide the actual size of your box, exactly how to make the lid, and whether you want any inserts or trays. The course is 2 days, and because there is extensive hand stitching involved there should be at least a week in between the 2 days. Helen GordonHelen has tried just about every possible form of embroidery and textile art. Her Recently she has added the sewing machine to her tool box and enjoys the speed of producing pieces by machine versus hand sewing. However, her heart probably still lies with the handwork . She has studied with a variety of fibre artists from traditional embroiderers to art quilt artists. |
![]() Shashiko - March 2009Learn this beautiful but simple ancient Japanese stitch, which literally translated means "little stabs". Traditionally used to repair worn places or tears in clothing, students will experiment with this running stitch technique for decorative purposes. The history of Sashiko will be discussed as well as step by step directions of marking and stitching. Karen Goetzingerwww.karengoetzinger.com Karen Goetzinger is an award winning artist, born Karen is known and sought after for her finely detailed mixed media textile works that are influenced by her roots in traditional quilt making, couture construction, and her life-long passion for the urban landscape. Mike Taylor, curator of the Trinity Art Gallery at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, was quoted as saying, "It's the multidimensional approach that makes Karen's work pop. She is meticulous in her composition; she has a terrific understanding of tone." Her works have been exhibited by public and private galleries in Canada and the United States, in museums, at regional art exhibitions throughout North America, hang in private collections internationally and are featured in the recently released book "500 Art Quilts" (Lark Books a division of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.).
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![]() Blackwork Peacock and Butterfly - November 2008
In this two day class the student worked either a Blackwork Butterfly (2 choices) or the Blackwork Peacock. The student was then taught how to work the Blackwork embroidery from a selection of patterns within the tacked outline of the design. |
![]() Apple Blossoms 2-Sided Embroidery - November 2008
The student learnt how to work satin stitch, padded satin stitch, stem stitch, and long and short stitch as a reversible stitch so that the embroidery could be viewed from the back or the front of the embroidery. Tanja, originally from Dorset, England is a graduate and former staff member of the Royal School of Needlework. At the school she became an expert on various techniques of embroidery as they applied to restoration, conservation and commission projects.
Tanja has five of her thread painting designs featured in the A-Z of Thread Painting and two of her goldwork designs in the A-Z of Goldwork book by Country Bumpkins Publications. Tanja BerlinThe embroidery was worked in DMC Perle Cotton, DMC embroidery floss and YLI silk floss in backstitch or double running stitch following a stitch pattern and counting the threads of the fabric. We concentrated on giving the embroidery perspective and dimension by changing the thickness of the thread and altering the density of the patterns.
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![]() Happiness Tree - April 2008This course is designed to give the student an insight into the techniques and use of approximately seventeen/eighteen different crewel embroidery stitches. It illustrates the balance of colour in the design, and also demonstrates the stylistic Jacobean design with its flowing curved leaves and impressionistic flowers. The piece requires some proficiency in crewel embroidery at the intermediate level. It is worked using crewel wools on fine linen. Beverly G. WileBeverly has taught crewel embroidery and needlepoint for the past twenty-nine (29) years. She has studied at the Elsa Williams School of Needleart and she obtained her Master Craftsman ? Crewel designation from the Embroiderers' Guild of America in 1995. She presently teaches private classes and has given workshops at the Nova Scotia Centre for Crafts and Design and certain local Chapters of the Embroiderer's Association of Canada. She has taught a two day workshop at the Stitchers' Ceilidh held in Truro, NS, by the Marigold Guild of Needle Arts, (the annual Seminar of the Embroiderers' Association of Canada). Jacobean designs using shading techniques are Beverly's speciality. |
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Erma Scrimgeour
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![]() Treasured Thistle - April 2007This stitched version of the thistle is done in a simple stumpwork and surface stitches techniques, with a background done in Pulled and Unpulled stitches . Waterlilies, DMC flosses and Perle cottons are used to create the design. Heather MacumberHeather has been involved with the teaching of needlework for over 35 years, teaching many of the different embroidery techniques through Continuing Education classes, Guilds, Seminar, and through her shop, Fair Creation Needle Arts, in Truro, N.S. ( closed 2002). A Home Economics Education Degree, and B.Ed. laid the ground work. Further study in needlework techniques was done with Anne Adams of One Stitch at a Time, Elsa Williams School of Needlework , American Institute of Textile Arts – Pine Manor College, Boston, plus many more workshops. Pulled Work, Crewel Embroidery, and Canvaswork are among her favorites.
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