Craft & Stitch Show at Aintree

The ICHF Craft & Stitch Show is taking place this weekend at Aintree. I am exhibiting  with One Step On a West Lancashire based group of Textile Artists.

I spent the day on Thursday helping to set up our display and spent yesterday stewarding. I am having a break today and tomorrow.

There are more stitch and embroidery exhibitors I think this year. We talked to a lot of very nice visitors and got lots of lovely, encouraging words about our work. We are not allowed to sell our work but if anyone asks they can leave their name and details and can be contacted by the artist to arrange a sale separately.

We got lots of people asking if any of us do workshops and we do have a list available of those that do.

Take a look at our display.

There are 11 of us in the group. We did a group project, making black bags, based on the pattern of a bag that I bought in Bejing. We embellished the bags in our own individual styles inspired by the embroidered designs on an old Chinese embroidered panel belonging to one of our members. Some of us used the butterflies for inspiration and some used the flowers. They all looked quite different but make a very nice display.
These are my pieces based on butterfly wings.

                 
        
       
       
Jackie, of Dogdaisychains fame, was displaying her work on the stand behind ours with the group that she works with – Embroidery 2000. We managed a bit of chat on Thursday whilst setting up. Actually we had both been at Embroiderers’ Guild Regional Day in Manchester the previous Saturday and she won first prize with some of her leaf designs and won 3rd prize with my ‘Flights of Fancy’.

        

My Chinese Bag

               
A digitally manipulated image, transferred to fabric, machine embroidered, hand embroidered and beaded.

If any of you have been or are going to show it would be lovely to hear from you and find out what you thought of the all en exhibits.