The talk was very inspirational and I seemed to be making notes all the way through as I got ideas from what she had shown us. As well as seeing all the work on the screen, Maggie had brought loads of samples and sketchbooks with her so we were able to see "in the flesh" much of the work included in the talk and in many of her books. She was very generous with her knowledge and told us how she had put together her creations and where we could get the supplies for ourselves.
In the afternoon Maggie (and her 'willing' grand-daughter!) had put together for us some strips of silk rods which had been machined together on felt and were the basis for us to put together with insertion stitches. We first buttonholed around each of the four strips, added any additional stitching we wanted and then, after stitching the pieces to soluble fabric, we joined the pieces together with stitching of our choice. Mine were joined with a combination of faggoting stitch and herringbone stitch.
Maggie's husband Clive also came with her and he showed us how to make "twirlies" with wire which we used to decorate our strips.
Mine is all finished now but I want to mount it on a gold foiled background and as gold is the only colour I haven't got in my foil box, it will have to wait. This is what it looks like for now and I will post a photo when it is finished and mounted.
As I said, I got lots of ideas so watch out in the coming months to see what I create!
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