I am learning a new photo editing programme called Gimp and I have successfully saved the above image to jpg format and blurred out the names of the Blackheath Ladies who attended the workshop in April 2021 from the screen shot.
Category: Fascinator
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Blackheath Ladies Fascinator
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Ivory Flower
I have been approached to be part of a auction on Facebook, so while recovering from my broken wrist I was thinking it is best to use one of the existing flowers that I normally sell at Greenwich market.
The ivory flower has wire work as a central theme, I was working on developing ideas with wire to incorporate into the fascinators, this small flower is the only one of its kind in the smaller flower range.
You can wear this ivory flower as a lapel pin to secure your scarf or onto your jacket as a broach or as a hair flower on the side.
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If I could show you, would you like to make your own Flower Crown Red?
I was in my happy place making these flower petals, 5 flowers they were made into for my next live online workshop in teaching how to make your own flower crown red.
I am quite excited in showing this technique as it is quick and easy and a new flower garland will be made in a few hours, so if someone is going to a festival, they can make it either on the day itself or if they were super organised the day or few days before.
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Designing the Blackheath Ladies Fascinator
Screenshot This is when Blackheath Embroiderer’s Guild became an independent group away from the Embroiderer’s Guild who closed all the branches. We were forced to become an independent stitch group a long with so many other branches, a lot of branches folded and some survived; it was Rebecca’s foresight and action to transition us from an in-person group before the pandemic to becoming an online group during the pandemic. Thankfully we are now known as a hybrid group with the in-person meeting starting at 1.30pm and then online starting at 2pm. I was asked by Rebecca to design a bespoke fascinator for Blackheath and it was called Blackheath Ladies.
I organised and sent out packs to the ladies and purchased the supplies for each lady to have enough for the fascinator. Doing this was part of my training for my own online live workshops and in the process, it taught me to be extra organised for the supplies. What was brilliant was I had some beads given to me a few months before and the supply was so great that it was too much for one person to use up in a life time and I was happy to donate a few of the colours to the ladies so they could sew beads onto their fascinator if they chose. I also learnt to teach this fascinator workshop again it would be ideal to market it to intimidate learners as the skill level would be too advanced for a beginner, especially in handling the satin and to thread the fine beads onto a beading needle.
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Blackheath Ladies Instagram Post
I was booked to deliver a workshop for the Blackheath Embroiderer’s to celebrate the transition of becoming an independent group. The Embroiderers Guild let go all the branches and streamlined into a central unit, unfortunately the bank account that was linked into the Guild from the branch was absorbed and the group was left penniless, I know the old branch which was Blackheath Embroiderers Guild should receive a grant from the Guild, our treasurer worked really hard to manage the finances in the pot and a bit was saved up for future workshops, and so we have become an independent group and embraced online group sessions. A lot of e-learning has taken place to support the group during lockdown, some members who were initially scared of the situation have grown more confident with the process of working online and some of them are waiting with excitement to get back to meeting in person.
It has been a major learning curve for me also, I was given the opportunity to teach online and when I got over the nervousness of performing in front of a camera, (because it is nerve racking), I started to relax into this new way of teaching and I learnt something very important and that was I so miss teaching and passing on my skills to others.In my next blog post I will share the image of the ladies wearing their fascinators, they were all great and turned out uniquely theirs. X
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The Star Fascinator
The Star Fascinator was created as the client had a wedding to attend and fitted in with the dress that was made for the occasion. Below is the link to Samines shop of other fascinators that can be purchased.