Enchanted Forest – Mandy Pattullo

Mandy will use iconic wild animals such as deer, hares, foxes and wolves as an inspirational starting point to teach you to make a textile collage which will be built up on to a base of a vintage quilt fragment. You will learn to use slow and traditional hand sewing techniques such as a freeform  appliqué and embroidery in a new way to make a unique textile narrative.
STUDENT REQUIREMENTS
Sewing kit – scissors, pins, needles
Little bits of fabrics ,don’t need to be much more than 5ins square as you are cutting and tearing them into even smaller bits that are animal coloured – browns, creams, terracotta’s, fawns, a black and some red/ orange fabrics if you want to have a go at a fox or squirrel. The fabrics could include cottons, synthetics, lace, sheers and pretty prints eg. Liberty offcuts. Nothing too thick though. Mandy will provide the vintage quilt base on which you will work.
Embroidery threads. Stranded cotton is ideal – Dark Brown is essential and then a range of browns, creams, and animal coloured threads.