Tuesday 19 October 2010

Flower Pounding

Despite a busy schedule, I attended two workshops during September. The first, arranged by the Oxford Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild, was 'Flower Pounding' with Linda Rudkin. Earlier in the year Linda had given a talk to the branch on 'Colours from Nature'. I’d found the talk fascinating and had been looking forward to the workshop but as the day approached, I was so busy that I nearly didn’t go. In the end, I decided that if would do me some good to have a 'play' day so I went along.

I think this is the prettiest workshop that I have ever been to. Everyone had raided their own, and their neighbours’ gardens, for a good supply of plant material; the tables were covered in multicoloured flowers and foliage.


The process of Flower Pounding is relatively simple but Linda passed on all the tips and tricks that she has discovered that give the best results and soon we were merrily pounding our petals and leaves.

In the morning we sampled our materials to see which specimens worked best and in the afternoon we used what we had learned to make a small composition.


Linda also showed us how a method of flower trapping.


I thoroughly enjoyed the day and was glad that I had decided to go.

Happy Stitching.

6 comments:

Susan Elliott said...

Beautiful. I also saw at Kaite's yarn garden that she is steaming silk with the petals rolled inside the silk. I thought that looked very interesting...plus, I liked that it was on silk. Glad you decided to have a play day!!

Angela said...

Sounds like a lovely workshop.

Rachel said...

It sounds like you all had a really wonderful play!

Chloe Patricia said...

Hello Carol - Thank you for visiting my blog the other day and I appreciate your kind words. Sounds like you had a wonderful day. I can imagine how it was with all the flowers brought in. I am going to attend the traditional Japanese dyeing course next month. It's very exciting to learn something new. Take care. Chloe Patricia

Anonymous said...

beautiful it must have been a fun day for you and I think they are my type of flowers. Thanks Sue X

Possibilities, Etc. said...

This is amazing and beautiful. I've always wanted to do it, but never found good instructions.