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 A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 4
Mar
9
6:00 PM18:00

A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 4

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$180 member    $205 nonmember

Sign up for the upcoming series Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques. It’s easy and fun, and you will complete mini embroidery pieces! You will learn the basics such as how to choose needles and threads, use hoops, and trace designs onto fabric. You will master the chain stitch, satin stitch, back stitch, fly stitch, feather stitch, stem stitch, and the French knot. We will also work with ribbon and beads. 

Week 4: Discover techniques for creating designs. Plus, freestyle embroidery on provided pre-printed fabric.

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 A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 3
Mar
2
6:00 PM18:00

A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 3

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$180 member    $205 nonmember

Sign up for the upcoming series Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques. It’s easy and fun, and you will complete mini embroidery pieces! You will learn the basics such as how to choose needles and threads, use hoops, and trace designs onto fabric. You will master the chain stitch, satin stitch, back stitch, fly stitch, feather stitch, stem stitch, and the French knot. We will also work with ribbon and beads. 

Week 3: Explore ribbon embroidery, beading, and a specialty stitch or two with a provided design.

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 A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 2
Feb
23
6:00 PM18:00

A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 2

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Sign up for the upcoming series Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques. It’s easy and fun, and you will complete mini embroidery pieces! You will learn the basics such as how to choose needles and threads, use hoops, and trace designs onto fabric. You will master the chain stitch, satin stitch, back stitch, fly stitch, feather stitch, stem stitch, and the French knot. We will also work with ribbon and beads. 

Week 2: Learn four to five additional stitches with a provided design.

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 A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 1
Feb
16
6:00 PM18:00

A Series: Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques with artist Linda Sweek Week 1

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$180 member $205 non-member

Sign up for the upcoming series Mini Designs for Hand-Embroidery Techniques. It’s easy and fun, and you will complete mini embroidery pieces! You will learn the basics such as how to choose needles and threads, use hoops, and trace designs onto fabric. You will master the chain stitch, satin stitch, back stitch, fly stitch, feather stitch, stem stitch, and the French knot. We will also work with ribbon and beads. 

Week 1: Learn four to five stitches with a provided design.

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Textile & Mixed Media Collage With Linda Sweek
May
21
9:00 AM09:00

Textile & Mixed Media Collage With Linda Sweek

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Collage – “A piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and  pieces of paper or fabric onto a backing,” Webster Dictionary. 

From working with treasured textiles, favorite fabrics and embroidery stitches, to the process of  constructing artwork intuitively and mindfully, textile collage is a great way to develop your own artistic voice. 

You might have collected fabrics and threads, hoops and needles, dyes and paints, artist books and kits. You’ve dipped into lots of different textile art mediums but you want to develop your own authentic style. Textile collage is a great technique to help you achieve this. You can create a collage to suit your personality and passions. Collage is  liberating, “arranging things to explore the juxtaposition of color, tone and pattern.” 

In this workshop, we will begin by looking at a variety of collages to become inspired on ways to layer and enhance collage work. Then we will begin to create two collages – the first will be a 

predetermined collage in a kit form that I will provide. The second collage will be your own design

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Coiled Fabric Bowl With Linda Sweek
Mar
14
12:00 PM12:00

Coiled Fabric Bowl With Linda Sweek

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About the Artist:

After a successful 25-year career in marketing, public relations and communications leadership roles, Linda Sweek has had the good fortune of pursuing her passion of fiber and mixed media art and starting her own business – Linda Sweek Designs. Besides fiber and mixed media artistry, Sweek teaches workshops and is the founder and host of Sew & Sew Retreats.

Linda Sweek started to embroider at the age of eight – to her it was like painting a canvas. Additionally, her grandmother, who was an artist, took her to art museums and galleries for instruction, and welcomed Sweek into her studio to work with clay, pastels and paints. Applying this knowledge of studio art, Sweek’s preferred medium became fiber.  

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Crazy Quilting – Creating a Block to Embroider & Embellish
Mar
15
8:30 AM08:30

Crazy Quilting – Creating a Block to Embroider & Embellish

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About Linda Sweek

After a successful 25-year career in marketing, public relations and communications leadership roles, Linda Sweek has had the good fortune of pursuing her passion of fiber and mixed media art and starting her own business – Linda Sweek Designs. Besides fiber and mixed media artistry, Sweek teaches workshops and is the founder and host of Sew & Sew Retreats.

Sweek started to embroider at the age of eight – to her it was like painting a canvas. Additionally, her grandmother, who was an artist, took her to art museums and galleries for instruction, and welcomed Sweek into her studio to work with clay, pastels and paints. Applying this knowledge of studio art, Sweek’s preferred medium became fiber.  

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