Monthly Meetings & Day Schools

Exeter Creative Stitchers are a group of people who enjoy stitching; embracing embroidery and textiles of all types. We are keen to share our knowledge and encourage newcomers to have a go.

Monthly Meetings & Day Schools

(Workshops & Day Schools Requirements)

Non members welcome to come and visit and have a taster session at any of our monthly meetings.

All we ask is you pay for your tea & coffee!

Non members are welcome to come to Day School’s but a fee will be charged – please contact us if you are interested in the below Day School (Members £40 and Non-members £45)

Day School – 24 June 2023 – Handmade Embroidered Pears – Annie Moore

This is an opportunity to create your own fabric embroidered pears – you will learn the skills to make 3 different varieties of the British pear – Conference, Comice and Concorde.

Requirements:

Sewing machine (we have one machine available at the hall) (if you are not a proficient with a sewing machine others will help with this small part of the Day School)
Fabric – cotton, linen, lightweight chambrays that are a coordinated choice of colours and patterns (less than ¼ yard needed in total per pear)
Lightweight interfacing for backing the fabrics (I will bring a supply)
Matching sewing threads to fabric
Polyester stuffing (I will have some carded Jacobs sheep fleece for those who want to use their pear as a pincushion as it stops pins going rusty & Polyester fibre fill)
Small amount of leaf coloured and stalk coloured felts – greens and browns (I will have a supply)
Extra Large button (Optional) (I will bring a supply)
Fabric marker – either FriXion pen or washable fabric marker
Normal sewing bits e.g. pins/clips, scissors etc
Long doll making hand sewing needle (I will bring a supply)
Hot glue gun and glue sticks (optional) (I will bring)
Variety of different embroidery threads to decorate – I will bring a supply of cotton stranded threads
Beads and other small embellishments to decorate e.g. lace, ribbon etc
Twig or pipe cleaner to make stalk (I will bring some pipe cleaners & twigs)

10 June 2023 – Silhouettes – Nicky Peterkin

Requirements:

Backing fabric A4 size (old sheet, pillowcase, felt)
Fabric scraps in colours for your background
Black felt
Bondaweb (optional) (there will be some for sale at the workshop)
Ribbons for background
Embellishments e.g. beads, lace etc.
Normal sewing kit to include embroidery threads

13 May 2023 – Household Items Printing – Annie Moore

Everyone who came and took part really enjoyed themselves. See results in Members Gallery.

15 April 2023 – Silhouettes – Nicky Peterkin

Apologies for those who turned up but the hall had been double booked for a children’s birthday party. We will be doing this workshop instead on the 10 June 2023 instead.