Another Fantastic Retreat with Kathleen Laurel Sage

We have just enjoyed the most fantastic three day retreat with Kathleen Laurel Sage here at Quilt Sandwich.

The first day we spent playing with Zentangles.  Here are some of Kathleens

 and here are some of our attempts

This beautiful peacock was made by Denise. She decided to add some colour with fabric paints at home and came back the next day with it all framed up.

Day Two was spent playing with Organza, water soluble stabilizer (Romeo)  and thread.
Here is some of Kathleens work

and here is some of our vases drying

flowers for the embellishing of the vase drying on a plate

Our last day was spent leaning more free motion techniques to make poppies and clematis
These are kathleens'

and here is one of our attempts which were done free motion in an embroidery hoop using our sewing machines.

We had a fabulous time and although most of the techniques were initially totally out of some students comforts zones, everyone really enjoyed learning new things and having a go at some really easy techniques which generated fantastic results.

We have invited Kathleen back again next year and we will be 'making fabric' which can then be used as the student leisure in either their quilting, embroidery, garment making, scrap booking, paper crafting or whatever. So be sure to keep a close eye on the newsmails and book up when the details come out. These workshops/retreat are sure to be popular.

Kathleen Laurel Sage Retreat

Unfortunately this blog is a little late. So many apologies - many of you know why, but for those who don't  - I was taken into hospital very suddenly on the second day of this retreat. I was gutted to miss day two and three!

Anyway on the first day with Kathleen we began to learn her signature technique with a flower panel.

Here are some of Kathleen's examples

The pattern is traced onto heavy water soluble stabiliser.
Layers of organza is put between two layers of the heavy water soluble stabiliser with the traced pattern on top.

The traced pattern is then sewn- free motion on the machine.

The water soluble stabilizer is then dissolved and then a soldering iron is then used to burn away some of the organza to make the cut work and holes.

Here are some more examples of Kathleen's

Students hard at work

and here are just a few of the ones made by the students

As I mentioned earlier I missed day two and three. However one of the ladies has kindly emailed me pictures of her work. Thank you Linda and wow - what fabulous work.

Watch the website and newsmail - the ladies enjoyed the retreat so much with Kathleen that they have requested her to come back again to Quilt Sandwich.