Sophie Standing “Pelican” Textile Art Workshop
3-Day Workshop
We are so excited to have Sophie Standing back in store this year. Her previous workshops were all sell-outs and student success in producing amazing work was outstanding.
Learn Sophie’s extraordinary technique of reproducing images in fabric and then using thread create texture and realism like never before! Sophie is a talented and fantastic teacher and strives to have all students achieve well in class, her ability to create realism of subject matter is amazing and she instructs this well in her classes so that students can confidently create their own masterpieces.
This class utilises free-motion stitching on a domestic machine. Fabric is hooped and worked on in sections to re-create the pelican image in fabric. Open to skills levels from confident beginner to advanced.
Date: Friday 10th – Sunday 12th May, 2024
Workshop times: 9:30am – 4:00pm daily
Cost: $700 + supplies. Classes requirements and class prep instructions will be sent out once bookings are finalised.
Students can opt to pay in full or in two, $350 installments. If paying in installments, first $350 installment due on booking. Second $350 installment due by 31st March.
$700.00
Workshop Terms and Conditions
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By booking a place in either a workshop or lecture you agree to abide by following terms and conditions.
To secure your place payment must be made in full. Your place is not secured until payment has been received. You can book either online, over the phone or in person with cash or credit card. Refunds will not be issued should you cancel or not attend the workshop. A store credit MAY be issued if we can fill your place. Handcrafters House does not accept responsibility for changes in the personal circumstances of its students. Mobile phones are allowed in the classroom but only when turned to silent or vibrate. No guests or children may accompany students in the classroom at any time. We reserve the right to change these conditions at any time without notice.
Learn more about Sophie....
Sophie Standing was born in England and grew up in Hampshire. She studied wood, metal, ceramics and textiles at Liverpool Hope University. Since graduating, Sophie has worked as an artist in many different mediums, including works in ceramics, stained glass windows, weaving, dressmaking and more recently experimenting with textile art. She was fortunate for many years to be part of the team that designed, installed and displayed the award winning windows at Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, London. She is also an accomplished wedding florist and fine artist, life drawing being a speciality.
In 2003 Sophie moved to Cape Town, South Africa and is now living in Kenya. Sophie’s textile embroidered art is inspired by the flora and fauna around her in Africa and combines this with her passion for fabrics and textiles. Her one off pieces are created by appliqué an intricate collage of fabric onto the canvas where her image is already sketched out. She then draws the details over the top of the fabric with her sewing machine using many different coloured threads.
Sophie has an extensive collection of fabrics from all over the world and in a vast array of designs and textures, ranging across haberdashery, dress making, quilting, new and vintage, floral, modern, wool, cotton, silk with Liberty and Kaffe Fassett fabrics being among her favourites. Although Sophie enjoys working towards exhibitions she usually works to private commission and enjoys the process of working closely with clients on a project. She has sold works to clients in Kenya, South Africa, UK and Germany. Some other examples of Sophie’s AMAZING Textile Artworks…
