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Embroidery - 101 Project Bag
Melissa of Tiny Happy will work with you to stitch botanical designs onto linen then sew them up into one-of-a-kind ‘project bags.
Teacher: Melissa Wastney
Workshop Duration: Full Day
Description: These drawstring bags will measure about 12” x 12” and feature your beautiful embroidery on the front. Your unique bag will be just the thing for keeping your knitting or crochet project around. Or perhaps for storing embroidery supplies or a camera. They would also make a very special gift. Full embroidery instruction will be given, and Melissa will have a selection of coloured threads, needles and hoops to play with if you need them.
This class is similar to the freeform ‘embroidery from the natural world’ class but has a little more structure in that students will be able to choose from a selection of my botanical designs. These will be iron-on transfers that you can apply to your linen then embroider over.
In the afternoon, you’ll construct the bags with the help of sewing machines. You might have time to make more than one, depending on how quickly you stitch.
Materials: Medium-weight linen in a light shade (so the transfer ink will show up) - 1/2 metre. Lightweight cotton fabric (printed lawn or voile is especially good) for lining (1/2 metre). Embroidery threads in your favourite colours (six-strand floss is easiest to use). Hand-sewing needle, embroidery hoop, thread scissors, dressmaking scissors and sewing thread. One metre of narrow ribbon or cord to match linen.
Takeaway: Your beautiful project bag, ready to use.
Level: Beginner
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.