Having fun on the Zoom workshops.


Painted and textured Tyvek and painted Lutradur cut with a soldering iron. Workshop 6 - Zap, Pow, Slash & 3D.

Well it's been a busy few weeks. We had another shoot for the new website. I think we have everything we need now. Today we were shooting with a drone for some landscape shots around the house. I think we can safely say Fizz and Pop are not fans of drones.  They HATED the noise and the hovering. So much for having shots of them from above gamboling happily in my field. Never mind - we tried.

David has already taken all the photos of my photos, we had fun moving the furniture around to get the 'feel' for each image. It will be great to be able to sell my work online. Here are few images of David from Lukewarm Volcano at work.

 

I am really looking forward to seeing these shots on the new website.

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The Show and Tell for Raising the Surface went well. I am so glad I decided to do a show and tell 2 weeks after each workshop. It means I get to see what the group have been developing, and it gives the groups a little gentle encouragement to develop the processes they learned on the workshop. 

I have a few images sent to me so I will share them with you. One of the group who starts the workshops at 5am is France. France lives in Montreal in Canada. She has a fashion background and is having great fun learning the the more textured processes that I teach.

Layers of painted Bondaweb decorated with painted and textured Tyvek, with extra fabrics and a button. All presented on a beautiful linen napkin that is just the right colour.  

Another piece from France. This time painted Bondaweb was ironed onto black cotton and decorated with painted and textured Tyvek and herringbone stitch. Along with tiny sequins and a few silk fibres.

Raising the Surface was Sarah Dickin's first Zoom workshop with me. Sarah certainly hit the ground running. The three following samples show how much fun she had.

Layers of painted Bondaweb decorated with pale green transfer foil. This first layer was then decorated with painted and textured Tyvek. Strips of polyester organza and herringbone stitch. You can see how well this amount layers works when the colours in the work are similar.

We covered using textured sweet wrappers and thin plastic on the workshop. 

Layers of painted Bondweb, transfer foil, painted and textured Tyvek, polyester organza and herringbone stitch.  

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This Friday I will be teaching Workshop 5 - Tinkering with Tyvek. All things Tyvek including boxes, bowls and beads. It's going to be great fun.

The workshops are getting more textured as we go along. Workshop 6 - Zap, Pow, Slash and 3D includes exploring, Bondaweb, Tyvek and Lutradur. Along with the heavier interfacings. Heavily textured surfaces and vessels will be the order of the day. You will discover just how exciting using your heat gun and soldering iron can be.

 

Playing with polyester organza and a heat gun . .

Heavy iron-on interfacing S133, painted and decorated with polyester organza shapes cut with a soldering iron and transfer foil. The S133 has been cut into with soldering iron.

Workshop 7 - Newspaper Faux Chenille, is shorter than the rest of the workshops, just 3 hours. I love this process. It doesn't take long to learn. You will learn the basic process and the pros and cons of working with newspaper and create some great samples. Then you will have 2 weeks to create a more considered piece for the Show and Tell 2 weeks later.

Layers of painted newspaper and polyester organza 

Nothing is wasted on this workshop, all the bits from distressing the faux chenille, can be ironed onto Bondaweb or an iron on interfacing. Great fun and a fabulous background for stitch.

All the workshops have 2 or 3 spaces left (apart from this Friday) and my feeling that I needed to teach a basic Bondaweb workshop (Workshop 9 - Bonkers about Bondaweb) was correct, it is already enroling well. 

I am thoroughly enjoying teaching via Zoom. Whilst it can't replace teaching in the same room, it does have a further reach and at least it is in real time. It is wonderful to see all the happy, smiling faces.

If you have questions about any of the workshops, do email me - info@kimthittichai.com

To enrol on a workshop -
 

Send me an email with workshop in the subject.
  info@kimthittichai.com
Let me know which workshop(s) you are interested in -
6, 7, 8 and or 9, along with a phone number.
I will send you a PayPal invoice.
Once this is paid - you will be on the workshop and I will send you the materials list.

All workshops are in BST

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Workshop 5 –Tinkering with Tyvek €65  FULL
Friday June 25th – 10am – 4pm
Workshop 5 - Show and Tell – Friday July 9th 10.30am – 12.30pm


A day of fun and experimentation with the wonderful material ‘TYVEK’. (Also known as fibrefilm & fibretex. We will be painting and stitching, incorporating polyester organza with this wonderful medium then heating it with various tools to create fascinating textures, bowls, vessels or sculptural forms and beads.
Cellophane will also be experimented with.  You will be able to develop your samples further in time for the Show and Tell 2 weeks after the workshop.
You will need a sewing machine and heat gun for this workshop.
For an idea of what we will cover on the workshop, have a look at this blog post - https://hot-textiles.blogspot.com/2013/07/tinkering-with-tyvek-foredown-tower.html

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Workshop 6
Zap! Pow! Slash! & 3D  €65  3 spaces
Friday July 30th - 10am – 4pm
+ Show and Tell – Friday August 6th 10.30am – 12.30pm
For all those that love their heat tools or would like to know more about how to use them. We will be using irons, heat guns and soldering irons and a sewing machine on this workshop. Working with Lutradur, painted and unpainted Bondaweb, transfer foils and gilding flake. You will create various samples on the workshop to develop ready for the 2-hour Show and Tell 2 weeks after the workshop. Learn how to control heat and the effect you can achieve with it. You can work in 2 or 3D in the workshop, it’s up to you. No aerosols or oil-based paints can be used on this workshop.

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Workshop 7
Newspaper Faux Chenille  €45  4 spaces
Friday August 27th 10 am – 1pm
+ Show and Tell – Friday September 10th 10.30am – 12.30pm
 
A shorter workshop. This technique is not complicated to learn and have fun with. The work will be how you develop the process ready for the Show and Tell 2 weeks later.
Working with painted and unpainted newspaper, old maps, music – whatever you have, but newspaper is my favourite. You will need a sewing machine for this workshop.

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Workshop 8
Boxing clever – making boxes and decorating with backgrounds and pretties.  €65 4 spaces
Friday September 24th 10am – 4pm
+ Show and Tell Friday 8th October 10.30am – 12.30pm
 
Create a fabulous, sparkly box ready for the festive season.
Or something more . . subtle.
We will be making lager boxes with the very firm Vlieseline S133 and smaller boxes with the more leather like Vlieseline Decovil 1. The box shapes can be cut with a scalpel/knife. Both these wonderful interfacings have glue on one side so your decoration can be ironed onto this surface. You will choose how you decorate the box, whether it is with my ‘background and pretty’ technique, or maybe newspaper faux chenille – or maybe both. You will be using recycled papers and Bondaweb and all manner of sparkle. We will look at edges and how you might join the seams of your boxes. Also, how they might be fastened, ready for you to enjoy experimenting for the 2 weeks up to the Show and Tell 2 weeks after the workshop.
If you would rather go ‘off piste’ and work on free form sculpture – that would be fine too.

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Workshop 9
Bonkers about Bondaweb!  €65 5 spaces
Friday October 29th 10am – 4pm
+ Show and Tell Friday November 12th 10.30am – 12.30pm
 
The price of €65 includes the one-day live Zoom workshop and the 2 hour group Show and Tell 2 weeks later. (Friday November 12th 10.30 - 12.30)
to enrol - email Kim - info@kimthittichai.com
 
A day of 2 halves – in the morning we will work through the basics of all the creative applications for painted and unpainted Bondaweb. This will include foiling for T shirts, decorating book covers and creating beautiful surfaces on which to stitch, using all manner of sparkle or natural elements.
In the afternoon you can carry on working with Bondaweb on its own or introduce recycled papers into the mix and have a go at my Backgrounds and Pretties technique which can developed into making slip covers for books and fabulous brooches. We will also work with soldering irons to cut applique shapes.
At the end of the workshop you will have a folder of samples to develop in time for the Show and Tell 2 weeks after the workshop.
This workshop is suitable for beginners or anyone wishing to refresh their skills working with Bondaweb.



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