Secondary Colours: Created by mixing two primary colours. 



Tertiary Colours: Also known as intermediate colours, these are formed by mixing a primary colour with a secondary colour.

Warm Colours: These colours include reds, oranges, and yellows.

Cool Colours: Blue, green, and purple are considered cool colours.

Neutral Colours: These are colours like black, white, grey, and brown.

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The basics …

Cut a piece of fabric at least 22cm × 22cm.  If you have a deeper frame you may require more to ensure you can wrap the sides and onto the back.  The fabric should be cut ‘on the grain’, i.e., with the threads in the fabric in line with the edges.  This will make it easier to wrap the fabric around the artist’s canvas.  Woven fabric will be easier to handle than knitted (stretchy) fabric. Not too thin, not too thick.  Colour and texture of your choice.

Find the centre of the fabric and create a square 14cm × 14cm (5½″ × 5½″) maximum in the middle of the fabric.

At the exhibition these mini works may be hung very close together, so you must stay within the design space, with no bits hanging down or spreading sideways! (But you can have bits sticking out, forwards!)  Your work doesn’t have to fill the space.  You may have a perfect idea for something only 3cm across.  As long as you mount it onto a 15cm (6″) canvas, that’s fine. Hand stitch, machine embroidery, added fabric, mixed media creations. Anything goes!

As suggested by Vicki, this will be a collaborative piece exploring family, memory and connection using lace doilies and family photographs.

The plan is for the doilies to have a transparent backing to give them some structure and allow them to hang together; without it, they would be too floppy. Any suggestions of how we might achieve this much appreciated. That’s collaboration!

A transparent backing would also mean that the lace patterns could still be seen.

With carefully positioned lighting, the lace would cast shadows, adding another layer to the ideas of memory, presence and absence, and the way family connections continue across generations.

How the 'family' element is added to the doily is entirely up to each of us. It could be a photo transferred, could be hand/machine stitched, could be painted with or without embellishment. The world is your doily!

20 December 2026

Last day for submission of card images for printing

23 January 2027

Zoom workshop with Anne Kelly, Marsh Baldon

6 February 2027 10am - 1pm

Finishing/delivery/card collection session, Marsh Baldon

Friday 26 February 2027

Set-up day at Magdalen Road Studios

Saturday 27 February-Sunday 7 March 2027

Showcase open

Monday 8 March 2027

Take down and collection of work

• The main element will be finished work under the heading ‘Families’. This includes any work started at any of our workshops, and any other work you may have been doing. ’Families’ covers a huge range of inspiration: people, words, colours, stitches, plants and on and on!  

• Next is a section of 6x6s under the heading ‘The Sea’.

• Thirdly we really want a range of work from any of our workshops under the heading ‘Here’s Some We Started Earlier’. We’ll put together collections of samples, unfinished works, ‘less-than-happy-withs’. All un-named but showing what we get up to, and all levels of work.