Artisan Apron ‘wear what you create’ with Carol Bartlett

Saturday and Sunday 19th and 20th October 2024

10:00-4:00

Adult workshop

(but GCSE and A-Level students are very welcome to join in. It will be a great skills workshop for those taking art)

WORKSHOP:

Carol will teach you to make a Japanese inspired curved wraparound apron with an easy crossover back. It'll be lined and have lovely roomy pockets to hold all your essential crafting items.

It's an easy item to run up using straight stitch and there will be three sizes available with a paper pattern to keep so you can make more in the future.

Suitable for beginner dressmakers who can thread up and sew a basic running stitch and also able to do basic hand embroidery stitches ( lots of help will be available ).

Feel very thrifty by using your special fabrics to personalise your apron. Raid your fabric stash and use collage, applique, unused patchwork blocks, vintage tablecloths , tray covers, handkerchiefs, labels,cross-stitch, anything old and worn that you love and want to give a new lease of life. Enjoy the process of transforming your apron into a piece of wearable art and never misplace your scissors and needle and thread again because they'll be snug in your apron pocket.

Make another apron at home with a cooking, gardening or art theme.

Artist / Maker / Tutor:

Carol Bartlett is a local textile artist from the Victorian seaside town of Penarth.

She combines her lifelong love of sewing and history into collaged and stitched pictures of people and buildings from the past and lately commissions of significant events.

Every picture tells a story and the increasing popular art form of embroidery is something Carol embraces. Carol brings character and depth to every picture which has usually begun with a sketch or vintage photograph of her local town.

She has exhibited her pictures in England and Wales with terrific feedback and is also an experienced dressmaking and textile art tutor having run workshops from her family fabric shop in Penarth for many years until she took early retirement in 2021.

Carol is a very keen member of the Cardiff chapter of Urbansketchers. She teaches this loose style of observational sketching to small groups and also volunteers as an artist in residence at a local hospice and spinal injury hospital where her artwork is sold to raise funds.

Lately Carol has been travelling the Welsh coastline in her converted camper van collecting up ideas through observational sketching journal style in order to inspire new stitched art.

You can connect with Carol through Instagram @carolbartlettart

What is included in the ticket price?
All equipment and materials that you need for the workshop are included. Some people like to bring extra bits and pieces but the studio is packed with all sorts of inspirational art materials, fabrics and threads that you may access.

Tea, coffee, biscuits and cake! Lots of cake!!

Where will the workshops take place?

In Beth’s inspirational studio at Insole Court, Cardiff. CF5 2LN