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February Workshop 3D Embroidery Embellishments – Chloe Patience

Twenty members attended our February workshop led by award-winning textile designer Chloe Patience. We started the morning with a presentation from Chloe, explaining her inspirations, design practice with examples of her work for film, Timorous Beasties and as co-founder of Bebaroque. She then guided us through the essentials of hand embroidery & beading techniques incorporating […]

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January Meeting – Vanessa Marr

News, Programme Talks, SCC Project / Merle

We had a great turnout for our first meeting of 2026, 19 in attendance in the room with another 15 joining on online to hear our guest speaker, Vanessa Marr, talk about the Domestic Dusters Project. We hope some of our members will join in with this project stitching their own dusters. Dusters and red

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December Meeting – Christmas Activity & Lunch

News, Programme Talks / Merle

Our last meeting of 2025 began with a beautifully presented and delicious buffet provided by local social enterprise Giraffe . Members enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with each other and a visit from a special guest in red who distributed the Secret Santa gifts. Committee member Jill Simpson then led us in the activity,

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November Meeting – Lucy Freeman

News, Programme Talks / Merle

We had another busy meeting in November with 30 members joining us at Oakbank for a very informative and inspiring day. Our chair Ali Currie gave an informal demonstration of the traditional approach to silk shading techniques using long and short stitch. This was followed by Lucy Freeman’s talk ‘Painting with Thread’ . Lucy shared

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Japanese Sashiko Stitched Pincushion workshop

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Our members enjoyed a great workshop in October led by tutor Sue Crawley from Sunshine Designs. We learned about the history of various Japanese stitches followed by a relaxing workshop making a Sashiko pin cushion.

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September Meeting – IKEA Museum’s Magical Patterns

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Celia Joicey, Dovecot Studios Director started the Stitch Colour Cloth 2025-2026 season with a talk about their current IKEA Museum’s Magical Pattern exhibition. It was a fascinating subject and Celia also shared the process and challenges of curating such an exhibition . The Magical Patterns exhibition explores six decades of textile design by IKEA and

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Pauline Burbidge Studio Visit

News / Merle

In addition to our regular programme of events as members of Stitch Colour Cloth we also have opportunities for one off events, such as the visit to AllanbankMill Steading on Sunday 1st June 2025. The following was contributed by our member Jill Simpson with photographs by programme secretary Caron Ironside Allanbank Mill Steading is the

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Stitch Colour Cloth Exhibition Community Project

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Following on from our extremely successful exhibition in May at Perth Theatre our community stitch project has been finished and presented to the theatre. Perth Theatre and Concert Hall have displayed the artwork in the conservatory from the High Street entrance. Thank you to everyone who stitched a square and to the committee members for

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February Workshop 3D Embroidery Embellishments – Chloe Patience

January Meeting – Vanessa Marr

December Meeting – Christmas Activity & Lunch

November Meeting – Lucy Freeman

Japanese Sashiko Stitched Pincushion workshop

September Meeting – IKEA Museum’s Magical Patterns

Pauline Burbidge Studio Visit

Stitch Colour Cloth Exhibition Community Project

Our New Exhibition – 125 Theatrical Threads

Curious Connections – Looking back on a successful week