 | Susan Barker |
| Accredited Tutor | Machine Embroidery | Surface Stitchery |
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Background
(A dreamer with both hand and machine needles in my pincushion.)
I have been a Guild member for almost 30 years.
My full time occupation was as a Home Economics, Secondary School teacher and I trained at Newcastle.
I have always enjoyed hobbies and crafts that involve making and belong to several Guild Groups. I am a founding member of Nepean Group, who are an evening group. We still meet at Penrith on the first Monday of the month. Over the years I have been convenor many times and have organised workshop and several stitching weekends away for our group. These weekends always had a theme and were a lot of fun!
I belong to Lateral Stitchers, Colour in Embroidery and as I recently moved to the Blue Mountains, I am also a member of Blue Mountains Group and since joining have started a creative Group –‘ More than Three Sisters’. This group meets at a local café for lunch, the last Wednesday of the month, just five times a year. (We are into our second year and work with a theme.)
Our family spent a year living in England – 1989-90. I attended the Winchester Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild, as a visitor, and went on one of their bus trips. It was to see an exhibition of Gold Work at St Paul’s in London. Mind blowing to a person who had never seen Gold Work.
I was also lucky enough to attend presentations by Beryl Dean; Richard Box and Gail Harker. My sister-in-law, was a member of the Aylesbury Branch,
The Machine Embroidery of Both Richard Box and Gail Harker, at that time, was very new to me and on returning to Australia I was able to do an introduction to Free-Machine Embroidery.
On the surface Stitchery side I took up Silk Ribbon Embroidery. I have accreditation in both Machine Embroidery and Surface Stitchery.
I love to play with both hand and machine work. I’m always interested to learn new techniques or ‘new’ ways with older techniques.
I am always happy to design workshops to suit groups and will travel to country groups.
Always stitching, learning and evolving.
