Two students came back for a second year, having made good progress on their own. They choose for themselves what they were interested in and want to learn more about.
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May 8, 2016 | Categories: craft work, teaching, tuition | Tags: Arts Worker, Basic crochet stitches, chain, craft, crochet, crochet tuition, double crochet, edging squares, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, granny squares, half treble, irish, Irish Crochet, joining squares, teaching, treble, tutoring | Leave a comment
Here are some more photographs of beginners’ achievements 🙂 Well done!
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May 8, 2016 | Categories: craft work, teaching, tuition | Tags: Arts Worker, Basic crochet stitches, chain, craft, crochet, crochet tuition, double crochet, edging squares, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, granny squares, half treble, irish, Irish Crochet, joining squares, teaching, treble, tutoring | Leave a comment
I used a framework of withies, hessian strips and reclaimed copper wires. The elements will be alligned with these as the work develops.
Laying it out
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May 6, 2016 | Categories: artwork, craft work, Exhibition | Tags: Angus Open Studios, arts, Arts Worker, Broomstick Crochet, bruges, Collage, craft, crochet, crochet buttons, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, exhibition, freeform crochet, granny squares, Hairpin Crochet, hessian, irish, Irish Crochet, jute, mixed media, new work, organic, original artwork, resources, vintage, wall hanging, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
This wall hanging is designed to fit a specific space above a stairwell.
Over the next few days I will post some of the detail of the work.
Firstly – here is one of the freeform spirals before being incorporated. This is worked in two soft yarns of differing weights to give a variation in texture as well as colour.
Freeform spiral in two differing weights of yarn
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May 5, 2016 | Categories: artwork, craft work, Exhibition, teaching | Tags: Angus Open Studios, Art, Collage, craft, crochet, crochet buttons, freeform crochet, hemp, irish, Irish Crochet, jute, natural fibres, original artwork, teaching, vintage, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
I always encourage learners to keep all their first attempts at learning.
Firstly because people learn a lot from their mistakes, so having the mistake in hand at that “how did I sort this one out last time?”moment really helps jog the memory. Secondly, because it is such an encouragement to see how far you have come.
I asked the students to bring all stages of their work in at the end of the course to show off their progress. Here are some photographs of the work they produced. Thank you for allowing me to use your photos, and my apologies for not getting them posted sooner.
An overview of students’ work
and again, more work.
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May 5, 2016 | Categories: craft work, general news, teaching, tuition | Tags: Broomstick Crochet, bruges, chevron stitch, craft, crochet, crochet beginners, crochet buttons, crochet intermediate skill, demonstrations, double crochet, edging crochet squares, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, filet, Filet crochet, flowers, granny squares, Hairpin Crochet, Irish Crochet, joining crochet motifs, learning crochet, Moile flowers, new work, pineapple stitch, Queen Anne Scarf, Raised relief roses, resources, teaching, tenerif, trebles, tutoring crochet, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
OK – After what seems like forever, I am still learning how to blog. Yesterday I learned that galleries don’t seem to work very well. The pictures looked small and uninteresting and didn’t display at all in facebook. Just a big blank space – which did have a link to the gallery page, but it took ages to load. Now I understand why people post one photograph at time. So, please be patient with me as I learn.
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May 5, 2016 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Angus Open Studios, Art, arts, Blog, Broomstick Crochet, bruges, Collage, craft, crochet buttons, demonstrations, drawings, dressmaking, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, examples, exhibition, exhibitions, fiddes, filet, flowers, foliage, granny squares, Hairpin Crochet, Hobbycraft, irish, Irish Crochet, knitting, lacemaking, mixed media, NEOS, original artwork, paint, prints, resources, teaching, tenerif, vintage, wall hangings, yarn | Leave a comment
I found this example of surface crochet – which is beautifully simple and suitable for a beginner – so I thought I would share it. Enjoy!
https://www.fairfieldworld.com/project/crocheted-cable-loop-pillow/
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April 7, 2016 | Categories: craft work, teaching, tuition | Tags: Angus Open Studios, craft, crochet, ellie, Ellie Fiddes, From Ellie's Hand, releif crochet, resources, surface crochet, teaching, tutoring | 1 Comment
