City and Guilds
With
Chris Hammacott

The Silver Thimble is offering City and Guilds courses in Stumpwork (raised embroidery) and Patchwork and Quilting with Chris Hammacott, of WS Touchbase, as tutor.

As an alternative to distance learning, tuition is held here at the Silver Thimble with Chris. Additionally, The Silver Thimble will host a regular self help class between modules to facilitate completion of each module. This is free of charge.

Chris originally trained and worked as a rug weaver, her work led to exhibitions, shows and judging as well as teaching, she has taught a range of textile courses for over 26 years, from Patchwork and Quilting through Embroidery and all manner of surface decoration.
Perhaps best known for her Stumpwork, her City & Guilds Stumpwork course was the first to be offered via distance learning. This has proved tremendously popular world wide, and Chris has been instrumental in introducing this style of embroidery to Mexico and South America through her work in Borda En Liston.

A keen de-bunker of terminology, Chris's approach has been to make learning a fun, enjoyable experience. As she says…….

     "Too many people have been emotionally scarred through school needlework lessons; I have no wish to prolong the agony!"

Chris is a born communicator and has designed and written for Inspirations, Stitch, Classic Stitches and Popular Patchwork magazines.

 

Stumpwork level 2 7822 course

This course takes you into the world of raised embroidery. The seven modules look at the full range of techniques. From hard and soft slips, wiring, padded work and the making of figures, from traditional to modern. Insects, animals, reptiles as well as the whole range of trees and flowers. Stitches will be explored in full from surface work to canvas. Design units allow you create your own work with confidence.

Your Tutor……..Chris Hammacott's name has become synonymous with this form of embroidery, she has been teaching it, normally through distance learning for longer than any other tutor, and her modules reflect the experience and practice that comes with time. Her work has appeared in magazines across the world, and her own work reflects the humour and joy she finds in this form of embroidery.

 

Method: The candidate will complete and supply for assessment
a. Work to satisfy the core unit
b. A set of ten samples
c. 2 Assessment pieces
d. Folder of work
Module 1- basic, tint, tone colour wheel, understanding fibre and fabric construction, colour combinations, start stitch sampler; knot, straight and interlocking. Colouring of fabric with fabric paint, wirework, flower studies, completion 2 x wire flower designs, study and copy of historical flat stitched piece.

Module 2- explore line to generate shape, couching threads, insects to scale, canvas slips for knolls and hillocks, canvas slip fruit, completion of couched tree on a slip with wired leaves and a choice of padded canvas fruit.

Module 3- Texture, rubbings, collage of hair, wool, feather, textural stitching, quilted padded backgrounds, hard and soft (padded) and felt slips, dyeing fabric, animal of own choice produced in slip form.

Module 4- mark making techniques, with a range of tools, needlelace samples detached with cordonnet, small building created on knoll, printed backgrounds, sampler using printed/coloured background and own choice, exercise on scale and proportion, bonding and layering.

Module 5- surfaces, in paper, and mixed media, use of moulds, assessment piece of a building of choice depicted in stumpwork using techniques from this module, to be displayed as a frame or panel.

Module 6- creating texture and form from paper. Human figures in trapunto and slip form, samples of various heads, to illustrate features, hair and expressions, dyeing fabric for skin tones, sketching to understand proportion, copy a figure from a photograph into stumpwork.

Module 7- research into an original piece, assessment piece to include a figure, and an animal or insect onto a cushion, bag, hanging or panel, to include traditional padding and slip techniques and a range of stitches, completion of course, with evaluation.

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