3 Workshop Weekend Series at French General in Los Angeles – Friday October 11th – Sunday October 13th, 2024
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Join me in Los Angeles this October! You can participate in any or all of the workshops – a significant discount applies if you take all three. All materials supplied!
In a few weeks I’m headed to France and I’ll be shopping with the french circus and stitched vessels workshops on my mind. I love treasure hunting with something percolating in the background- it makes me notice things I might not. The context shines a bright light on stuff that might be missed in the great sea of intriguing things. I want color and stripes and little bells and buttons and trim. Those one of a kind details add so much. I’m super excited to share all that in the workshop and see lots of woebegone french circus folk come to life.
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Friday – Stitched Vessel
3pm-7pm
Aperos and snacks
$150
An evening of conversation and slow stitching. Learn to layer and stitch fabric scraps to form a small vessel. This is an improvisational and meditative process. The technique is simple, flexible and easy to do.
All materials and refreshments provided.
Saturday – The French Circus – Elephant And Cat
10am-5pm
Coffee, lunch and aperos
$300
Join Ann Wood for a day (or two) of stitching and imagination with the french circus as our inspiration.
Saturday”s workshop includes the elephant and cat and all wardrobe pieces. You will receive patterns and instructions for both dolls and our goal will be to complete 1 dressed figure in our day together. Overachievers might complete both.
We’ll be working with antique and vintage textiles, French General prints and solids, my favorite wool stuffing and treasures collected in France: lace, buttons, notions – magic little details to add to your one of a kind piece.
Basic sewing skills are needed, we will be stitching by hand and machine.
All materials will be supplied.
Optional – if there is a fabric you would love to work with feel free to bring it. It’s also helpful to have a disappearing fabric marker.
Sunday – The French Circus – Lion And Monkey
10am-5pm
Coffee, lunch and aperos
$300
Sunday’s workshop includes the lion and monkey and all wardrobe pieces. You will receive patterns and instructions for both dolls and our goal will be to complete 1 dressed figure in our day together. Overachievers might complete both.
We’ll be working with antique and vintage textiles, French General prints and solids, my favorite wool stuffing and treasures collected in France: lace, buttons, notions – magic little details to add to your one of a kind piece.
Basic sewing skills are needed, we will be stitching by hand and machine.
All materials will be supplied.
Optional – if there is a fabric you would love to work with feel free to bring it. It’s also helpful to have a disappearing fabric marker.
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When will the circus animal patterns be available for those who can’t go to the workshop?
They sure will- towards the end of the year
I can’t wait for the patterns to be available!! I’ve loved the circus animals since I first saw them and have already been pondering which of my stash fabrics and notions would be perfect for them!
Wish I was closer! Love to get the patterns later in the year. The days sound wonderful.
Oh boo!! I live tooo far away! I wished you could visit Fayetteville AR!!
Hi Ann, do you ever teach workshops here in on the Ct. shoreline?
California and sewing with like minded people – in my dreams, sadly. I’m in the UK and will have to wait for the patterns later in the year. I’m sure you’ll have a ball
My daughter and her family are moving to Pasadena, perhaps I can get in SIL to transport me to the French General–that would be epic!
I’m curious- are the male and female cats the same pattern size? She looks a little smaller, but I think it’s probably just his hat and jacket that make him look bigger. I’m envisioning a line of girls either ready to go onstage at the Moulin Rouge for a rousing can-can or in a ballet for the Parisian Opera House.
Love the hephelant!
These circus animals are just precious and I can’t wait to make them when the patterns come out. I would love to come to CA but sadly I am too far away. If your ever on the east coast I’ll be there with bells on! Happy stitching!