Community Textile – Armed Forces Day 2019 National Event Salisbury This entry was posted on June 27, 2019 by Meril Morgan, from ‘The Arts in Wiltshire’. “You may recall we did a call out early this year for a lead artist to work with Wiltshire’s 18 community areas to create a commemorative community textile to celebrate and thank our […]
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Wiltshire Council: After being appointed as Lead Artist for Armed Forces Day 2019 by Wiltshire Council to work on a celebratory Textile Project back in February, here are the results: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/salisbury-afd Working with 18 groups throughout Wiltshire, each group followed the same instructions and colour palette to depict their connection with the Armed Forces […]
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Binding the Past To The Present has bound with its original beginnings!! Binding the Past To The Present has found a new home, but has gone home!! The puttees are being exhibited at Coldharbour Mill, Devon. The home of the puttee, Coldharbour Mill was one of the mills owned by Fox Bros, Wellington, at which […]
Continue readingNew Titles and Workshops – Felting with Suzie Gutteridge: Saturday 9 February – Kantha Stitching Saturday 23 February – 3d Wet Felted Vessels Friday 1 March – Easter Rings Saturday 2 March – Flowers and Birds Saturday 27 April – Felted Pictures with Threads and Fabrics Saturday 25 May – Needle Felted Animals Saturday 9 […]
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As a nice follow on from the Poppy Project, in November I went to Pitton School where we created a fabric collage created with the children in Sarum Class that included a felt poppy made by each of them. The soldier that you can see in the image was traced by me from one found […]
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Puttee From “Binding the Past To The Present Through Remembrance” displayed as part of St Peter’s Church, Pitton Remembrance Service 2018. One decorated puttee was displayed at St Peter’s Church Pitton as part of their Remembrance Service in November – a link to the main installation on display piece at Salisbury Cathedral during that time. […]
Continue readingHello 2019!! Here below are details of the first three workshops for this New Year: Saturday 12 January – Needle Felted Animals Saturday 26 January – Felted Pictures with Threads and Fabrics Saturday 9 February – Kantha Stitching All Workshops are from 10am – 2pm. Saturday 12th January Come and make your own needle […]
Continue readingCome and enjoy Christmas Fun Felting. Relax have some time out, create a little something for Christmas and have some festive fun!! Where: SuzieGutteridgeArt,Unit 10, Barnack Business Centre, Blakey Road, Salisbury SP1 2LP What will we be making: Needle felted Christmas Wreaths Needle felted Robins Christmas Brooches/Tree Decorations Workshops are £40 (including materials) please book […]
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This morning I received a lovely email from Chris Sturgess, a BFBS reporter at Forces Radio, who recently came to visit the exhibition and interview me at Salisbury Cathedral. Inside the email was a link to the resulting article, with a couple of videos that touch on the background and history of the puttee nicely, […]
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