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Postcard from the Rose Garden
Textile Art featuring paper piecing and embroidery
My first stitched postcard from the Artist in Residency at the Wellington Botanic Gardens.
Finished as a mini quilt for top mounting in a box frame.
Size: 9cm by 17cm
Only one available
Postcard from the Rose Garden $150 BUY NOW
The Artist in Residency is made possible by the Friends of the Wellington Botanic Gardens and funding from the Nikau Foundation
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Past Class – Turn over a New Leaf
Choose from a range of felt embroidery kits that combine felt and simple embroidery stitches
The kit has the design outline stitched on a linen/cotton background fabric. All the yarn and felt for stitching the design is included in the kit as well as a stitch dictionary.
This class is aimed at beginners who can thread a needle and would like to learn how to embellish with stitch.
The range of designs available for this class can be seen here
Choose from:
Fantasy Tree
Hungarian Rhapsody
Turn over a New Leaf
Wild Flowers
Two in a Bush
This class is not currently scheduled. If you are interested please fill out the contact form here
To see more Textile Art classes at Hutt Art you can Click here
Past Class – I Never Promised you a Rose Garden
This design is based on traditional Knot Gardens. It is a pleasure to let the textures of the threads along with simple canvas work stitches give you a Rose Garden.
Using the grid of the canvas and a clear chart will give you confidence to branch out from cross stitch. If you stitch between the classes, you can have a go at designing another border around the design.
For beginner embroiderers confident in threading a needle.
The class price will include a colour charted pattern and detailed stitching instructions. If you already have threads and canvas that you would like to use, a full requirement list with options will be sent out.
A full kit of painted canvas, needle and strand yarn will be available at the class of $36.
2 x 3 hour sessions
This class is not currently scheduled. If you are interested please fill out the contact form here
If you are not able to attend a class you can purchase the pattern or full kit here
Tall Spotted Vase Still Life
Quilted Textile Work
One in a series of Still Life panels of vases and flowers.
Pink and Orange velvet and batik flowers with three dimensional leaves in an appliqued vase with velvet spots on an kantha stitched linen/cotton mix background. I discovered four shades of pink velvet in my stash!.
Finished as a mini quilt with a hanging sleeve with the ability to easily make it into a cushion if you wish.
Size: 31cm by 39cm
Only one available
Tall Spotted Vase Still Life $350 BUY NOW
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AIR – Stitch a Still Life Class
Join the Friends of Wellington Botanic Garden's Artist in Residence Mary Self as she teaches you how to stitch your own still life.
Sun 9 Feb 2025, 10:00am–1:00pm
Cost $126.85 each ($120.00 + $6.85 fees)
Enroll here
You'll create your own A4 size Still Life with a vase or a bowl containing three-dimensional flowers, fruit and/or leaves. Linen fabric will be provided in a range of colours so you can create your own background texture with simple stitches. A bowl or vase for you for your flowers and fruit will be appliqued.
Threads and fabrics will be provided but if you have something special you would like to incorporate into the Still Life you are welcome to bring it along and we can discuss how to best to use it. For example, the bowl for the cherries is from an old, embroidered doily and the cherries are red velvet. A piece of lace may look good on the table.
You may not finish completely, but you will have been taught and practised each step.
Advice and options for finishing your piece of work for display will be given.
Most suitable for 16+ confident in threading a needle.
Located in the Treehouse Seminar Room, Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā.
Mary Self is the Friends of Wellington Botanic Garden Artist in Residence 2025. The residency is from 1 February to 31 March, and she will spend Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Treehouse and other parts of the gardens sharing her stitched art with visitors. "Flower and plants have been depicted in art in very many ways. Some of my favourites are the simplified forms of the millefleur in Medieval tapestries, the rich Dutch Still Lives of the 17th century to the evocative gardens of the French Impressionists of the 19th century."