Textile Bowls & Postcards with Kathryn Harmer Fox
2-Day Workshop with Kathryn Harmer Fox
Kathryn is an award-winning textile artist from South Africa who specialises in creating images by doing free motion machine embroidery and fibre embedment with scribble stitch. Her workshop in 2023 was extremely successful with students producing amazing work. The images just do not do these works of art justice. If you want to enjoy a very creative, food-for-the-soul kind of weekend, then this is the workshop for you!
Postcard Project: The postcard, reminiscent of a bygone age, is a delightful format on which to create an artwork. Choose an image from one of the multiple kits available and stitch your own A4 sized picture. ‘Write’ your message and post it to a friend, frame it, or make another.
Bowl Project: Use your domestic sewing machine like a potters’ wheel and form a bowl or platter shape. Choose an image from several kits available and stitch the picture to your bowl. These can be hung on the wall; they could be framed in a box, or set upon a flat surface. You could also stitch a lid for the shape and upon lifting, reveal an artwork. Sculpting a vessel like a bowl or a platter is a simple process on the sewing machine and is a quirky and different format for any artwork. Kathryn has made several vessels using different processes and in this workshop she will teach you how to make them from ragged cord which you shall stitch on your domestic sewing machine. One of the most delightful aspects of form shaping is that it is ever so slightly unpredictable and very easily manipulated, similar to building a clay pot on the wheel.
Cost $395.00 p/person. Early bird price $350.00 until 31st March.
Dates: Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th May, 2025
Class Times: 9:30 – 4:00 daily
Listed below are the requirements for the class. Please note; Kathryn will supply a basic kit with pattern, images & tracing paper which will be payable directly to her at the start of class. Bowl or Postcard kit is $55.00. Bowl and Postcard kit is $85.00.
Original price was: $395.00.$350.00Current price is: $350.00.
- Additional information
- Requirements Bowl Project
- Requirements Postcard Project
- What you will learn
- Workshop Terms and Conditions
Additional information
| Project | Bowl, Postcard |
|---|
Requirements Bowl Project
Equipment needed
- Sewing machine with extension table (must be able to disengage feed-dogs).
- Universal foot, darning/embroidery foot: a foot with a hollow tunnel underneath (Bernina #12) is a huge advantage but not a necessity.
- A sprung steel embroidery ring (the type which has a steel open ring with handles that fits into a plastic circular rim, 20 – 25 cm diameter).
- A black, fine-line, fibre-tipped pen/sharpie
- Usual sewing paraphernalia like tape measure, pins, etc
- Universal & jeans needles
- A sharp, pointy pair of scissors
Materials needed for bowl
- About 3 metres of floppy, light to medium weight cotton (like quilting fabric): must be able to tear easily into strips. This is for the bowl and can be patterned or plain, in own colour choice.
1 x large reel of thread in a colour chosen according to above fabric (can be matching or not depending on affect desired). - Student needs to make 15 – 20 metres of ragged cord for a Bowl with a diameter of 22 – 25cm.
Materials needed for image
- Snippets of fabric in appropriate colours, including see-through fabrics (like netting, organza, fine silk).
- Reels of appropriately coloured thread (not embroidery thread
Requirements Postcard Project
Equipment needed
- Sewing machine with extension table (must be able to disengage feed-dogs).
- Universal foot, darning/embroidery foot (free motion foot)
- Sharp, pointy scissors
- Jeans needles
- Usual sewing paraphernalia (tape measure, pins, etc.
- Extra bobbins
- Small set of Inktense coloured pencils/blocks
- A couple of stiff, bristle brushes
- A black, fine-line, fibre-tipped pen/sharpie
- A small set of fine-line, fibre-tipped coloured pens/sharpies.
- Ruler
Materials needed
- Snippets of various, appropriately coloured cotton type fabrics.
- Reels of various, appropriately coloured sewing thread (not embroidery thread).
- Snippets of see-through fabric like netting, gauze, organza in various colours.
- 1 metre backing fabric (suitable in colour/pattern to image chosen.
- An A4 sized piece of canvas
- It is wonderful if each student can bring a packet of snippets of fabric to put into a public pool for all to delve into.
- Finished, backed Postcard measures approximately 38cm X 28cm
What you will learn
Techniques and Processes;
-
- Fibre embedment using scribble stitch
- Free motion machine embroidery
- Ragged cord edging (extra) – not used in the postcard but as I use it a great deal in my own artworks, I always do a demonstration
- Spiderwebbing (extra) – not used in the postcard but great fun
- Learning about individual styles
- What is underpainting
- What an outline does
- How to choose the “right” snippets of fabric and thread
- How to become process rather than product driven
- How to critique your own work
Workshop Terms and Conditions
Please Read Before Booking
Booking Terms and Conditions – It will be assumed that you have read these conditions upon booking.
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.
Handcrafters House reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to lack of numbers or unforeseen circumstances. In this situation you will be given a full refund for the workshop. Under no circumstances is Handcrafters House responsible for any additional expenses incurred to attend the workshop, such as accommodation and/or travel expenses.
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.
