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Bringing colour to life

Here at InStitches we love creating our own colour palettes and designing fabrics to use in our stitched textiles.

​Very often the starting point for a colour scheme comes from observing the world around us. Whether it’s walking through the vibrant but chaotic bazaars of Jaipur, whipping up a storm in the kitchen or strolling along the Cornish beaches in winter - they all tickle our creative senses and we love capturing that moment in fabric and thread.
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How do you chose your colour schemes?

Do you go for bright and bold...
or do you prefer a more subtle palette?
​Over the year we’ll show you how to create  colour schemes from your source inspiration and interpret them in fabric and thread. You’ll learn how to dye, paint and print your own fabrics, adding marks and texture, so that by the end of the course you’ll have your own unique collection ready to use
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Some of the different techniques you will be introduced to  include low immersion dyeing to create a graded colour family, painting with thin and thickened dyes and using a variety of found objects for printing and mark making.  You'll get to remove colour, explore mono-printing, experiment with fabric paints and use silk screens in a whole host of different  ways.  If time allows there may be the opportunity to  add rusty marks (we have an ever-growing collection of rusty objects just waiting for you!) or possibly dip into an indigo vat.
Our studio is light, bright and fully equipped and you will each have a large, height adjustable padded work-bench.  We've included all the dyes etc in the course fee so all you'll need to bring is fabric (about 10 -15 metres over the whole course); however we do stock a variety of fabrics ready for you to buy.
Please note: We are now taking bookings for this course and fully intend that it will start as advertised in September. That may mean that we  defer the start of the course to later in the year due to the ongoing coronavirus situation.    We have planned in some alternative dates just in case we are not able to run all the sessions before Christmas, please see course dates for further details.

Don't worry!  This will still be a vibrant, engaging and inspirational course and we will be together in the InStitches studio as soon as we possibly can.

Come and join us, be inspired!
Bringing Colour to Life is 10 sessions and held on a Tuesday, starting in September.

Course dates for 2020/21 can be found here.

Cost: £655 (includes dyes and other media but not fabric)
A £115 deposit will secure your place.
​​The balance of £540 will be due approx. five weeks before the start of the course.
If you have any questions please contact us.​
To find how to reach the studio click here
book this course for 2020/21

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