August 2025 Betsy Habich
Autumn Leaf Thread Painting with Betsy Habich
Autumn Leaf Thread Painting with Betsy Habich
Autumn Leaf Thread Painting with Betsy Habich
Join Betsy to learn about thread painting!
Betsy Habich will bring kits for students ($30 payable to BH at time of workshop).
Supply list
Sewing machine in good working order. I recommend you bring the sewing machine you are most familiar with and that you have it serviced within the In this workshop, we will be running our sewing machines at a rapid speed for extended periods. This is tough for many machines to sustain, and if a machine is not feeling well, it may hiccup, make thread nests, and otherwise mis-behave. This happens more often when students bring their “workhshop” or “travel” machine. I know it’s more cumbersome to bring your ‘good’ machine, but I want each student to have a good workshop experience. If you have both straight-stitch and zig-zag throat plates, bring the zig-zag plate.
1 package size 14 Topstitch needles
Free-motion embroidery foot, similar Bernina’s #34 foot. A clear plastic quilting foot is OK. I want you to be able to see exactly where the needle is landing so you can achieve crisp edges. (see photo below)
50 weight, 2 play (e.g., 50/2) thead in all the colors you can see in an Autumn Leaf, including 2-3 reds, 2-3 yellows, 2-3 oranges, mossy and bright greens, a medium/dark brown, plus colors for the background (sample has a blue and white stripe, but I’ve seen a picket fence, and it could be anything from a single solid color to polka-dots, to “echo-quilting” like lines (Roy Lichtenstein, anyone?) etc – if you want to try something unexpected, I’m happy to help you!
nb: I like and use Aurifil thread. It is low lint, and the finished work has a really nice, soft sheen. Mettler, Metrosene, and Gutermann are also fine. If you have a large stash of shiny embroidery thread and you like the look of it, have experience working with it, and want to use it, that’s fine, but personally I do not care for the way it looks, and so have no experience working with it.
5-7 bobbins, loaded with about a third of the colors you are bringing
Participants
20 Students
Cost
$55 Member/$85 Non-Member
Date & Time
August 20, 2025
9 am-4 pm
Location
Plymouth Congregational Church
925 Vermont St.
Lawrence, KS 66044
