One Step On, Monica Selway

Monica Selway

Originally a secondary teacher, I have always taught adults, and currently run a private class in Patchwork & Quilting. I give talks and workshops to groups such as the Embroiderers' Guild
Fundamentally an embroiderer, I use both hand and machine embroidery to enhance or make textiles.
I also use other crafts, such as hand-dyed fabrics, basket-making, beading and origami.

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Above: Golden Clouds
Size: 25cm x 25cm, height 6cm
Materials: Hand and machine embroidery with knotted wire and hand-made tassels

Far Left : Couldn’t Cut It Up
Size: 154cm x 80cm
Materials: Quilt based on scraps left over from making a 70s dress

Left: Linocut
Size: 40cm x 48cm
Materials: Linocut based on Chinese embroidery, on Chinese Indigo fabric
Price: £150

Right: " Concertina Moss".
Size: 29cm.high, 22cm. wide, 18cm deep.

Materials: Cottons and machine embroidery threads, card and "velcro"

Techniques: The bag was based on a garden feature found at Gawthorpe Hall. It had a concertina section designed to make the shape of the bag a practical, not just decorative, item. The closure uses traditional box-making techniques to make the fastening, together with machine embroidery for the moss decoration and cord.

Price £75

Above: " My North Country"

Size: 47cm. high, 56cm.wide

Materials: Silk,tissue paper, various threads, including silk, beads and sequins.

Techniques: The background silk and the tissue paper were hand-dyed. The paper was folded using Origami. Each folded section interlinks, and are then held together by embroidery, which includes beads and sequins.

Price: £300

Above: Small Blue Basket
Size: 12cm deep x 15cm square
Materials/Techniques: strips using machine embroidery, spray painting. Completely made from recycled materials
Price: NFS but will take commissions

Above: Chinese Bag
Size: 24cm. long, 19cm.high, 4cm. thick.

Materials: Fabrics include silk,velvet and cotton. A variety of threads, gimp cord, beads and sequins are also included, and the bag contains the traditional pot-pourri sachet.

Techniques: The bag is made from a traditional style of bag carried at the waist on a belt.The bottom section is hand-dyed and printed fabric, which has then been machine embroidered, with beads and sequins added. The bag was then embellished with cords, some hand-made. Knotting was deliberately used as part of the decoration, because it is a feature of this style of bag.

Price: NFS

Above: "Architrave".
Size: 38cm. wide, 34 cm. high, 18cm. deep

Materials: Upholstery fabric, various embroidery threads, including machine embroidery, glass beads. Cushion filling.

Techniques: The design comes from my drawing of the architrave round a medieval door at Rufford Hall. This was made into a linocut, printed onto the fabric and hand embroidered and beaded. The shape was chosen to sit on a triangular chair found in the Hall, and the cushion was finished with tassels.

Price: £50

Above: Tate St. Ives
Size: 66.5cm wide x 50.5cm high
Technique; silk painting, hand embroidery
Design: View inside Tate St. Ives on to Porthmeor beach
Price: NFS, but would take commissions

Above: Flowered Timbers
Size: 46cm wide x 61cm high
Technique; American smocking, machine embroidery, mixed fabrics and beads
Design; based on Little Moreton Hall, National Trust, property.

Wall Hanging

Azalea Spiral
Size: 76.5cm square
Technique: American smocking, silk and beads
Design: based on gardens at Rufford Old Hall, National Trust property.

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