Sue Spargo Visit

We have had a fabulous week with Sue Spargo from America teaching for us. 

She works mostly in wool fabric with touches of cotton to add interest. Then she does the most amazing embellishing with embroidery around and over the applique pieces.

We had a two day class embellishing leaves. This leaf is layered up with fabric and 

then embellished with stitches. Sue has a fantastic repertoire of stitches - most are 

traditional but not widely used these days so everyone added  to their personal 

knowledge of new stitches.

The two class was followed by a one day class embellishing circles to make the cover 

of a needle case. In this she taught her basic and most popular eight stitches and 

variations on them.

It was also great to meet her sister, Wendy, who does all the wool dyeing of Sue's fabrics.

This is Wendy with their African Quilt - they grew up in Africa before moving to America.

We were thrilled to have these two talented women visit us and hope they will return 

when their busy schedule allows.