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We have chosen ‘The Elements’ as our inspiration for our new exhibition in 2020. Continue reading Working towards a new exhibition

2018 is the 100 years anniversary of the first (but not all) British women gaining the vote. On Saturday 6th October in Ipswich a Festival for Women was held at the University of Suffolk to celebrate this and to encourage all women to use their vote and to participate in public life to ensure their … Continue reading A Festival for Women in Ipswich

History of Silk in Cambodia I visited Cambodia last summer and one of the highlights of this holiday was a trip to Angkor Wat and the silk industry around Siem Riep. We visited Artisans Angkor in both the town and the workshop in the country site and were hugely impressed with the level of craftsmanship … Continue reading Visiting Angkor Artisans in Cambodia

Our exhibition at the Apex in Bury St Edmunds is now entering its final week. It will close on the afternoon of Sunday 3rd June. We have met some lovely, enthusiastic people in the past three weeks and hope to meet a few more in the week ahead. Do pop in and see us if you … Continue reading One more week

After two years of designing, creating, painting, dyeing, stitching, mounting and framing finally on Tuesday 8th we got round to hanging our exhibition “Deepening the Mystery” at the Apex Gallery in Bury St Edmunds.   The day was very hot and was not without its problems as an administrative mix-up meant that our exhibition could not … Continue reading Exhibition at the APEX in Bury St Edmunds

With just 23 days to go until our exhibition “Deepening the Mystery” opens at the Apex gallery in Bury St Edmunds we at Beyond Stitch are very busy making final arrangements and adding the last stitches to all the new work we have created over the past two years. You can read more about the … Continue reading The Final Countdown

Detail from “The Storm” by Tres Barnett. Inspired by the Benjamin Britten Opera “Peter Grimes.” All of us at Beyond Stitch (Ed, Sue, Sarah, Mandy, Marion, Trudie and Tres) would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year. So,  2018 has arrived which means that it is nearly 18 … Continue reading Happy New Year

A reminder about our new exhibition titled (Deepening the Mystery) which is taken from a quotation. Francis Bacon, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” The exhibition will be held at the Apex in Bury St. Edmunds from 08/05/18- 03/06/18 A recent trip to Puglia in Italy with lovely weather, food, wine and … Continue reading Italian Influence

I love using silk material in my embroidery pieces. It is such a diverse medium coming in all sorts of incarnations: smooth or rough textured, shiny or matt, woven material or loose fibres ready and willing to be manipulated. It dyes beautifully and easily – I use Australian Landscape dyes and my microwave – or … Continue reading Sudbury Silks

Every now and then I do some  dyeing of fabrics and threads with flowers, leaves or fruits I have gathered.  I love that you end up with a selection of similar shades as each fabric and thread takes the dye in a different way.   All natural colours look happy together.   Last autumn my … Continue reading The highs and lows of natural dyeing