Festive Family Fun Day at RNCM

Magical illuminated woodland lanterns were created at The Royal Northern College of Music festive Family Fun Day.

Colourful Christmas Tree Makes at RNCM

We has great fun running a colourful Christmas Tree make at the Royal Northern College of Music at their Festive Family Fun Day

All the best to you&yours for the final jamborees of 2016 and onward to 2017x

Mr Darcy Loses the Plot!

Following on from stitching successful patchwork panels (see previous post) for Lip Services’s new production; Mr Darcy Loses the Plot, the skills of the Avenue Crafters, the Crumpsall Craft Crewe plus our Barbara, a talented solo ninja stitcher from Oldham,  were called upon to create applique panels for the set backdrop. The deadline was tight but don’t these panels look truly amazing. Well done and thank you again to all the stitchers involved.

Rebecca. Mandalay in the distance.

Fluffy clouds

Beatrix Potter (Sue) with rebbits, Jemima Puddleduck and wicked fox

Modern day woman writer wearing glasses on Ipad with mobile phone

Mrs Gaskell’s industrial mills in an LS Lowry style

Mr Darcy swimming in the lake!

Mrs Danvers (Maggie) lurking in the curtains

Regency dancing with Mr Darcy, Mr Bingley and eldest Bennett sisters.

Mrs Danvers lurking in the curtains

Sue and Maggie are now touring Mr Darcy Loses the Plot, so cut&paste the web link for more information http://www.lipservicetheatre.co.uk/home

Mr Darcy Loses The Plot

I’ve had lots of fun working again with Avenue Crafters and Crumpsall Craft Crew, plus Full Circle&friends from Oldham Coliseum stitching a patchwork stage backdrop for Lip Service’s hilarious new comedy Mr Darcy Loses the Plot, inspired by the works of Jane Austen.

Crumpsall Craft Crew

suffolk puffs

Avenue Crafters

Crazy patchwork

Finished patchwork pieces

Full Circle, plus quilting friends

pieced patchwork & suffolk puffs

vintage patchwork

Mr darcy Loses the Plot rehearsal

Thanks to everyone who got involved with this patchwork challenge and if you are interested in adding to this magnificent stage backdrop, just visit Lip Services website for all the info.

Roald Dahl inspired compendium of ideas

As part of this years Manchester Children’s Book Festival we were back at the RNCM creating;

Workshop begins…

Buzzing

Cutting & Sticking

Busy creating

Team work

Resources

Fabulous compendium of ideas

Ta Dah!

 

Gloriously sunny @RNCMvoice #spring #sound #sticks #workshop #Matisse #inspiration

 

Claire starting off process

Spring sound sticks ready to go

Glorious sunshine

stapling

Ta – Da finished

Another glorious family day workshop at Royal Northern College of workshop yesterday with kids and their adults. Lots of fab Sound Sticks created inspired by Matisse cut outs. Thank you to everyone who came and took part. Lots of familar faces now 😉 Next up is World Book Day at RNCM on 26th June. See you there x

A Stitch in Time

Over the last couple of months I have had the pleasure to work with members from the Avenue Craft Group and Crumpsall Craft Crewe to create two textile wallhangings entitled A Stitch in Time. The brief was to incorporate and showcase the many different types of textile crafting techniques and stitches that the members utilise, whilst also depicting local and well loved landmarks, both historic and modern.

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I thoroughly enjoyed working with the groups and as well as learning much more about their local areas, was thoroughly impressed by the skill and stitching expertise of the group members. The resulting colourful wall hangers (that can be displayed seperately, or together) are not only eye catching, they also encourage the viewer (whatever their age!) to look closely to spot all the flora&fauna on display and also to see if the local landmarks in Heaton park and Boggart Hole Clough can be spotted.

Fun for all the Family at RNCM last Sunday

Claire, Fiona and I really had a great time last Sunday running a workshop as part of RNCM Family Fun Day inspired by MMU’s Manchester Children’s Book Festival. Here is just a taster of the exuberant headresses that were made, all with a musical and/or story theme.

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Thank you to all our fabulous workshop participants and see you at our next RNCM Family Fun Day on Sunday 25th October 😉

Suffolk Puffs or YoYos?

As part of Didsbury Create I ran a suffolk puff brooch making workshop. Suffolk Puffs are also called YoYo’s stateside.

And here are some of the cute creations from the workshop;

Thanks Ladies for getting stuck in with the stitching.

Antony Gormley’s Field inspired Y3 pupils at Pikes Lane Primary this week

Here are some pics of Year 3’s Antony Gormley inspired Field figures. For their arts week Pikes Lane Primary School in Bolton were looking at British artists, so I had an opportunity to run a workshop I have long wished to.

Y3’s Field

Antony Gormley inspired

Field Figures

I was really impressed with how carefully the students worked. The figures will go on display in the school library shortly, so Mr Bradley has promised to send me more images. Watch this space for updates…