Tigley Textiles

Contact Name: Julie Brand

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Address:
The Paddocks
Broadway Road
Birlingham, Pershore
Worcestershire
WR10 3AF

Tigley Textiles

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About Tigley Textiles

Julie Brand is a designer, tutor and learner of hand embroidery, machine embroidery and applique based near Pershore in Worcester.

She stitches with lace and vintage fabrics, floral patterns and quirky prints. Most of her materials are pre loved, recycled and given a new lease of life.

Julie runs creative textile workshops from her beautiful garden studio which is full of inspiration. You will take away a beautifully stitched and finished piece that you will cherish forever.

Tigley Textiles's Courses

"Plant a seed and watch it grow with machine embroidery" workshop with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcester

Worcestershire - Next course on 19th April 2020

For those of you who already have some experience of machine embroidery, you may like to come and dabble with a bit of paint and learn different ways to embellish your background. If you fancy learning how to think a bit more creatively, and want to learn a few new techniques, then this is the workshop for you. You may choose to add some hand embroidery too. You will learn how to create a distressed, shabby chic background, and will design your flowers or seed heads as you go. Julie...

Embroidered landscape with words, with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcester

Words are funny things- people either love them or hate them, a bit like marmite. But sometimes, those carefully selected words can really resonate and bring a tear to the eye. In this slow stitching day, you will choose from boxes of enticing fabrics, and stitch your applique fields on first. Then choose which style of tree to stitch, and embellish with embroidered fields of flowers, anything that takes your fancy. You may choose to add some meaningful words and hand embroider those on too. They could come from a...

Embroidery - garden borders with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcestershire

Worcestershire - Next course on 14th June 2020

This is a hand embroidery, slow stitching workshop for all those people who need to escape from their everyday chaotic life and completely lose themselves in this addictive hobby. Many garden border samplers will be shown as examples and once you have chosen your colours and fabrics and threads, you will be guided through each stage. You will be shown how to layer fabrics successfully and use stitches to build up textured flowers and foliage- sometimes the most simple stitches are the most effective! This is suitable for a complete...

Embroidery "Stitch for the Soul" with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcester

Worcestershire - Next course on 12th June 2020

This is a lovely slow stitching day. Hand stitch some meaningful words and spend the day embellishing your panel. You will select your colour palette, then pick bits of fabric from boxes of colourful vintage fabrics and hand dyed lace. Decorate with vintage buttons and some embroidered flowers, a house or just birds and hearts. Feel free to bring scraps of meaningful fabric and bits and pieces of your own. Anything goes. Take home a completed panel which you can finish off to hang or frame or stitch onto a...

Hand embroidered flowers with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcestershire

Worcestershire - Next course on 25th April 2020

This is a lovely creative embroidery workshop for those of you who would like to come and play for a day. You will work on a small piece of good quality linen as a base fabric. You will choose your colour scheme first then select fragments of fabric and lace, snipping and tearing to stitch interesting backgrounds. Then using Julie's mini books as inspiration, will choose your stitches and add different flowers onto each of the 8 squares. You choose whether to take away your finished flowers as one whole...

Hand embroidery for beginners

Hand embroidery for beginners

Worcestershire - Next course on 11th July 2020

This is a hand embroidery, slow stitching workshop for all those people who need to escape from their everyday chaotic life and completely lose themselves in this addictive hobby. You will work onto a preprinted panel and be guided through all ten stitches, stage by stage. There will be lots of embroidery around the studio to inspire you. This is suitable for a complete beginner or someone who used to sew but needs a recap, or someone who would like to be confident with a few stitches so that you...

Machine embroidery - stitch doodling with Julie Brand at Tigley Textiles in Worcester

Worcestershire - Next course on 20th June 2020

Machine embroidery is now such a popular art form and can be done in so many different ways. You will learn several techniques and use fabric and paint during the day. Julie aims to show you many ways that machine embroidery can be used with plenty of examples to inspire you. Suitable for beginners, and sometimes it's even easier if you are a beginner, as you have to forget everything you’ve previously learned about precision and just go with the flow. You will need to bring your own sewing machine,...