Welcome to the Schoolhouse of Stitch:  Fearless Stitcher Workshops

**Last update: 4 September 2010**

Painting, stamping, stencils, applique, fabric collage, embroidery, wire work, embellishment — and MORE!!

**NEW CLASSES FOR  Fall/Winter 2010!!**

Online via the FAMM forum:

**Stitcher’s Garden Book** &   **6 Stitched She’s**
Registration opens October 1

Enrolling locally – Kansas City MO USA…

Wire Work & Embroidered Jewelry

Art Drawing & Intro Art Camp

How do classes work?  To register for an online class: click the Buy Now button for your class in the description below. You will be taken to Google Checkout where you can purchase your class spot. Within 48 hours, I”ll email you a confirmation of your enrollment and instructions for how to log in to the FiberArtsMixedMedia (FAMM) website *link to see*. Once you’re logged in, you’ll be able to explore the forum & see a few free lessons.  On the day class begins, you’ll be able to download your class as a pdf.  You can begin work immediately! I’ll be online/available that day to answer questions, as well as checking messages each day in case you need me. I will usually reply to questions/comments within 24 hours.  If you’d like to explore the FAMM community in the ning.com network, that’s a great place to build your OWN page complete with blog, gallery of work, etc! *link to see my page*

A Stitcher’s Garden Book: mixed media embroidered journal

6week tutorial  – 6 sessions BACK by popular demand!

Open to ALL levels of proficiency, $85 Click Buy Now and let’s begin your adventure!!

For years I’ve watched artists & crafters grow restless as they consider their supplies with an adventurous eye… and I have often heard the question, “How can I add my stitching to a book project?”  A Stitcher’s Garden Book is the answer.  Join me for 6 sessions over 6weeks, and I’ll show you how to create your own original stitched garden book.

We’ll begin by choosing a bound book as our base, and we will collect our treasures and special thingy things.  Then we’ll set out on our journey.     Together we’ll mix media, get inspired, and GO stitch up the place!

In the same way that so many of us plant and tend our food and flower gardens with care and excitement, we will use garden themes, mixed media exercises,  image and text, and stitch to grow something very special.  With departure points such as Nests & Trees, Critters & Crawlies, Flowers Vines & Climbers, and Winged Things & Wee Folk, we’ll build a garden that’s uniquely your own — without ever leaving your comfy chair!  Techniques include paper dyeing, handmade paper, insertions & cutouts, dimensional stitch & light wirework, underpainting & collage, flower pressing & fabric collage… and MORE!!!

If the idea of a Secret Garden, or  Stepping Through a Garden Gate, or the prospect of unifying your green thumb and your stitching fingers sets your imagination loose… then this is the class for you!

Available exclusively through the Fiber Art Mixed Media Online Tutorials, Open to ALL levels of proficiency, $85 Click Buy Now and let’s begin your adventure!!  Class registration opens October 1, 2010 — First class is set for Saturday, October 23 and will run 6 Saturdays through November 27. Classes will be online & available until December 31st. If you wish to register late, that’s OK! Just jump in at any point in October – November – December & I’ll catch you up to wherever we are!

THANK YOU to everyone enrolled in the Winter 2009 & Spring 2010 course – I LOVE this series!!

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** 6 Stitched Shes **

In the tradition of Victorian silhouettes… with a Fearless Stitch twist…

I’ll show you how to begin with a basic female profile and,

using mixed media and stitch,

turn her into a distinct work of art!

We’ll cover watercolor and acrylic underpainting,

piecing with fabric and paper, stitching with cotton floss, metallics, and wire work, and using dimensional stitch & embellishments to achieve a 3D she!

To sweeten the deal, we won’t be making just one…

we’ll tackle SIX shes

with prompts & suggestions for MORE!

Class format is 6 sessions over 6 weeks.

Open to all levels of proficiency $85

Click the Buy Now button 6 Stitched Shes  to begin your adventure! I’ll email you confirmation & access to the forum to get started.
(… if you have a crafty friend, sweetheart, or family member… this would make a TERRIFIC art gift — that will keep on giving for 6 weeks… and will provide skills for a lifetime!!  Now THAT’s value!)

email me victoria@freedomofstitch.com for info

Registering Locally:

Metallics & Wire Work for Hand Embroidery – see schedule below

A  basic introduction to metallic floss & light gauge wire for stitching.

We’ll cover how to choose wire, how to handle & effectively manipulate it, which ground materials work best for stitching on, and how to approach cold connections.

Wire work is an exciting addition to any mixed media embroidery, and has endless applications once you get to experimenting.

Locally, classes with me are booking up to 3 months in advance

at the JoAnn Store, Northland:

Wire & Stitched Brooch/Pendant

1 session=3 hours

September 19 11am-2pm, Oct 9 9am-12pm, $45

Wire Work & Basic Wrapping w/Beads 201: Heart Pendant
Sept 19 3pm-6pm, Oct 16 9am-12 $45

These wrapped hearts are super easy and look good as a pendant or a brooch — or even as a hat pin –

or you can string them together for a bracelet…

only your imagination limits you!

Wire Work/Free Form

Wire Wrapping202:

Organic

Charm Bracelet

Whether you like gold tones or silver, this project is SO cool!!

It grew quite “organically” out of the samples I was making for 101 to introduce coiling… We’ll cover a few basics of wire work & then get down to the business of creating your own original design! The sky’s the limit for how you can jangle up your wrists with this charming creation.
September 28, 5pm-8pm, $45; October 21, 530pm-830, $45

Also on the schedule are basic jewelry making and more embroidered jewelry is on the way!! It’s shaping up to be a VERY fashionable season ;0}

email me for sign up & supplies: victoria@freedomofstitch.com

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Introducing the Fearless Stitch Coalition Events hosted by Florilegium Needlearts Shop in Parkville MO!

Metamorphostitch™ – Coming in Spring 2011

Link to Explore the Philosophy & Samples

If you ever wanted to be a mad scientist and create your very own animal – human – machine hybrid creatures…

if you love steampunk, Dr Moreau, fantasy and the radical combinations made possible when you set your imagination free…

then this series was created for YOU! We’ll explore one creature through several views, combine single and multiple elements to make amazing other worldly beings, and dress it all up in mixed media & stitch!

Introducing: Thread Salad™ -

With this technique, we’ll explore using an original Impressionistic floss/fiber technique to visualize stitched composition, and to create finished works as well.  First Workshop October 17, 1-4pm **BOOKED FULL**!!!!

**Additional sessions will be scheduled in January 2011**

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KC Art Institute, PCAL, 2010

THANK YOU so much to all the students who helped make pcal 2010 a great experience. We explored all facets of Text as Art, and many students have already begun their own projects mixing text, media, and stitch!   To poets, artists, and all — You Rock!!