InStitches Creative Textile Courses
  • Home
    • Courses and workshops at a glance
    • Contact us
    • Want to stay locally?
    • About us >
      • The story of InStitches
      • How to find us
      • News and events
      • What our students say
      • Gallery
    • The Small Print
    • Privacy policy
  • Bursary
  • Create your own cloth
    • Create your own cloth play days
    • Create your own cloth - with surface design
    • Create your own cloth - in a bucket
    • Create your own cloth - with a screen
    • Create your own cloth - using resists
    • Create your own cloth - Paper lamination
    • Create your own cloth - Exploring Indigo
    • Create your own cloth - Breakdown your palette
    • Create your own cloth - with earth pigments
    • Create your own cloth with Nature's colours
  • Guest tutor workshops
    • Guest tutors 2025 >
      • Judith Needham - weave your own chicken
      • Claire Benn - Intent on abstract Composition
      • Anna Woodhead - Paper lamination
      • Matthew Harris - Chain reaction
      • Sam Jones - Exploring Indigo
      • Leah Higgins - Breakdown your palette
      • Claire Benn - Out of this earth
      • Sam Jones - Nature's colours
      • Richard McVetis - A stitch drawn
      • Polly Pollock - Coiled baskets
      • Karina Thompson - Free motion for the terrified
      • Claire Benn - TEXTure
    • Want to stay locally?
    • Guest tutors 2026 >
      • Kate Findlay - Procreate for textile design
      • Sue Brown - Mixed media sketchbook
      • Leah Higgins - Breakdown your palette
  • Other courses
    • Courses and workshops at a glance
    • Creative Journeys 2025/26
    • InStitches at Home online workshop
  • Shop
    • Workshop Gift Vouchers
    • screens4printing

Getting ready

27/4/2018

0 Comments

 
We’re working in the studio this week getting ready for thread - a festival of textiles at Farnham Maltings on Saturday 30th June and of course The Festival of Quilts later on in August . We have stands at both shows so that’s a lot of fabric
Picture
and thread we need to print and dye!
Picture
We don't just dye pot-luck but have several different themes, so when you visit our stand you can buy a range of fabrics and threads which complement each other beautifully. So where do we find our inspiration for colour? A lot of our colour inspiration comes from the world around us; nature provides us with the most amazing colour palettes so I thought this week I would share a few of the flowers and plants which have been inspiring us recently.

If you follow us on Instagram  or Facebook you’ll have seen our recent posts of the beautiful display of bluebells which greets us as we come up the drive.
Picture
On my allotment the vegetable beds aren’t looking their best just yet, but there was a magnificent display of daffodils earlier this spring. Just wait until the sweet peas, rainbow chard and globe artichokes get going - it will be a veritable feast for the eyes never mind the stomach!
Picture
And in my garden the tulips have finally burst into all their glory. When I set out my garden a couple of years ago I deliberately painted my garden shed a very dark inky blue to act as a foil to the ever changing pots of colour. I think it works very well, don't you?
It’s a very busy time of the year for us as we get ready for the show but I always try to make time to enjoy going out and working in my garden or on my allotment. Not only do the flowers and plants provide plenty of inspiration for my textile work but being outside tidying the borders, weeding the vegetable rows and harvest the crops as they ripen helps calm and soothe. These days I can even find joy in mowing the lawn !

So if you come to visit our stand at the various shows over the summer take a look at the fabric and threads and see if you can guess which plants and flowers have inspired us!

Hazel & Terry
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.


    Welcome to our blog! Here you'll find out what's been going on, plus plenty of ideas and inspiration and the odd cake recipe!

    Check back often to see what we're up to - it's great to have you along

    Hazel & Terry
    Picture

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    #10minutedrawingproject
    And There Was Cake!
    Artists To Inspire You
    Blog Changeover
    Bringing Colour To Life
    Colour
    Craft Ptoject
    Creative Play
    Creative Warm Ups
    Creative Warm-ups
    Festival Of Quilts
    Finding Inspiration
    How To...
    Inspired By Cloth
    #institchescreative2020
    Line
    Places To Inspire You
    Quilt Shows
    Take Two Stitches
    Text
    Texture
    The Story Behind The Quilt
    Tools Of The Trade

    InStitches travelblog
    InStitches textiles travel blog
    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    April 2016
    March 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013

    Visit InStitches's profile on Pinterest.
InStitches: exciting courses for people who love textiles, dyeing, design, stitching and sketchbooks

Connect with us

follow us on Facebook
read our blog
Instagram inspiration
Pinterest pinnings
newsletter signup
follow us on Facebook
read our blog
Instagram inspiration
Pinterest pinnings
newsletter signup

Courses and workshops

Courses and workshops at a glance
Create your own Cloth
Creative Journeys
Guest tutors 2025
​Online workshop


InStitches

About
How to find us

Support

Contact
​
The small print
Privacy policy

Our address

Sunfield Studio,
Unit 12, Sunfield Business Park
New Mill Road
Finchampstead
Wokingham
RG40 4QT
We support
Just a Card logo
Copyright © InStitches 2010-2025
All rights reserved.