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Boro Bobbin Diaries: With Bespoke Coastal Additions

A Slow Stitch Workshop by Deena Beverley Through innovative collage, appliqué, embroidery and mixed media art quilt techniques you’ll develop a wide ranging skillset and evolving confidence in this addictive form of portable journalling, centred around a beautiful antique bobbin, vintage fabrics and more, supplied by Deena, to which you are welcome to add your own treasures. Deena will be making this popular workshop bespoke to Cowslip by making accessible to students, her own original coastal and maritime inspired imagery for their personal use, and will also show students how to add their own coastal influenced, or other inspiration sources to their work. This calming, restorative workshop allows you to incorporate precious preloved materials; eg sentimentally significant cloth, along with methodologies for transferring images and ephemera onto fabric. Learn how to add cherished family photographs and other images to beautiful textile and mixed media art quilt journals as long as the stories you want to tell; yet which occupy little storage space. Create living heirlooms; to enjoy handling again and again. Your tuition in making these charming journals includes techniques applicable to many other applications; taught by internationally celebrated arts author and tutor Deena Beverley; renowned for her sensitive handling of colour and texture, and experience of working with vintage and found materials to create works with a sense of story.