Layers of Stitch: Belton Project 2018

This page has been created to provide a resource for photos to help with the Belton project - photos taken by many members, including work in progress, etc.

July 2018

June 2018

May 2018

Layers of Stitch

Embroiderers’ Guild Grantham

Creative Women Exhibition

Belton House, Nr Grantham

25^th May 2018 onwards

(until the end of the National Trust Season)

Featuring Textile and Embroidered work inspired by

Lady Marian Alford, her work and designs.

www.embroiderersguild.com

Names of members of Layers of Stitch who have contributed to the

embroidery for Belton House:

The Parasol

put together by Carole Wright

Sunflowers Blue Flowers

Dreda Farmer Kay Carne

Penny Gibson Jenny Fay

Diane Marriott Ros Griffin

Kate Pike June Heycock

Gwen Williams Joy Kitchen

The Mannequin

dressed by Annette Cooke Marion Fraser and Margaret Beattie

and contributed to by

Joan Asken Kaye Mundy

Sue Cork Kate Pike

Pam Dawson Ruth Walton

Marion Fraser Sheila Willatts

Penny Gibson Gwen Williams

Marian Jackson Carole Wright

Other pieces:

Cushions – Sandi Macmillan-Bunn x 2, on chair

Michelle Maloney – in glass case

Dorothy Short – in glass case

Pin Cushion, needle case, and panel – Mary Bomphrey; Assisi –type embroidery, image taken from one of the chairs in the Yellow Bedroom.

Dorothy Short - two wall panels, one of which is by the fire-place;

a bag, which is in the tall glass case, along with the other wall panel.

Dorothy Short - 2 small panels of Crab-apples – image taken from the fire-screen in the Yellow Bedroom, which are mounted in the large gilt

frame, along with a sunflower by Marian Jackson. Free machine embroidered.

The Fan – Michele Maloney.

Silk Fan with free machine embroidery – design board included.

Deirdre Collins – Thistle, in frame, inspiration taken from an image on the piece designed for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Wendy Walder - Blackwork Crab Apples – worked in red,

accompanied by sketchbook.

Ros Willis - design taken from one of Marian Alford’s colourful embroideries, worked in neutral colours, in box frame. Design work in portfolio.

Lucy Marsland – yellow and blue flowers and leaves in Irish flower crochet, in box frame.

Francesca Robinson – Leek-type embroidery, in embroidery frame.

Marion Fraser – small blue flower embroidery, similar to those on the parasol, in embroidery frame.

Sue Cork – two fragments from the bed-hangings in the Yellow Bedroom, including Marian Alford’s monogram, framed in blue.

Carole Wright – two fragments, one a monogram and one of the ribbons on the piece which was originally for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and not used, framed traditionally.

Both of these hang over the mantelpiece.

Sue Cork – tapestry Heron with frog in its beak, taken from one of the tapestry chairs in the Yellow Bedroom.

Jenny Fay – two framed pieces of clematis on green silk, and sunflower/chrysanthemum on brown satin, mounted as a roundel.

Gwen Williams - flower wreath on Indian brocade, mounted on orange/red silk.

Kate Pike – wall panel ‘a faded rose’, using background technique learned in a recent workshop at the local Embroiderers’ Guild,

and framed piece – goldwork flower with spider.

Joy Melton – Sunflower in a box frame.

June Heywood – Small velvet bag, random smocking technique.

Kaye Mundy – Sunflowers in a pot, mounted on yellow silk.