Christmas Meeting

The Christmas season has begun

 Our monthly sales table was full of yummy goodies. It is such a privilege to be able to buy from a talented friend. We all have different skills and ideas and where better to share them?

Thank you girls for bringing the work in and making the effort

 The table began to fill for our scrumptious buffet - nothing like a bit of fizz

 Christmas baubles - makes Elise happy

 Hand embroidery for Pat...

and Sylvia. I detect Christmas is certainly in the air

 Clare's painted landscape gave us all something to think about

Not a lot of stitch work but that really isn't the issue. Art? Textiles? Textiles is an Art!

We love it Clare

 Joy's stump work of Wild Women ... such fun!

 

Talking of Wild Women!! (Was it Bob's Birds or Bob's Girls??) Either way it's a stunning photo ladies

 Ladies at work

 Roberta's delicate, pretty crazy patchwork using crisp cotton handkerchiefs

 Margaret's flowers on denim. The use of red is stunning

Today we discussed the 2016 theme of keeping a Colour Book

 

Details will follow in the new year but in the mean time begin collecting anything that can be put into your sketch book relating to ANY colour of your choice

 

You may follow a theme of the 4 seasons or take one Primary colour - red, yellow or blue - and collect magazine pictures, snippets of thread or swatches of fabric to illustrate your chosen colour

 

In January we will begin the books and spend the opening part of our Thursday mornings, working/modifying/illustrating/sharing our colour books

 

It is hoped that our sense and knowledge of colour will improve and widen over the coming year

 

If you were absent today you can have your sketch books in January at our next meeting

 

Thank you ladies for a wonderful year of friendship and expertise

Merry Christmas and a Happy, healthy New Year

November 12th 2015

Once again we fill the room and today is a very special day

 

Joy had a special birthday today and she shared it with us

Apologies for the poor photograph ( a photo of a photo - long story)

Joy provided treats

Such fun! Thank you Joy

Joy's wonderful heart brooches

 Discussions began

 Sharing experiences and ideas

 

 Ice and Alma in discussion while they work

 Lillian worked on making leaves to apply to her dress for the exhibition next year

 Cheryl is needle felting over a polystyrene ball for a Christmas decoration

Pat has been working hard on her pinafore dress for the exhibition next year

The trees and birds have been printed by using thermofax screens

The birds are beautiful - well done Pat



 Ruth worked on her pods from a recent Alysyn Midgelow-Marsden workshop

She had plenty of braids to choose from to edge the pods

Di continued her crazy patchwork from last month

 



Sylvia's coloured calico of a bird with hand embroidery, will eventually become a 3D bird

 Debbie continued her sculpted tree

Joy's Chinese inspired purse with buttons

Jude has block printed her fabric and incorporated

it into a purse frame

Reverse side

 

Our next meeting will be our Christmas party

 

Going Crazy with Ice

Crazy Patchwork is something that has been on the agenda for some time and we were delighted to have Ice lead the day with her inspirational pieces showing numerous ways to perform crazy patchwork

The script here in, is courtesy of Elise and so too are the photographs. Thank you Elise

Lillians fussy cut 2nd patch with the dog

                                      
Ruths embellished felt (Dena thought she was using a sausage dog not a roll of wool tops!), Joy had some lovely "chips" and was making heart brooches
                                      

some of Ice's sample pieces and her sketchbook

 

    

 Samplers by Ice - pictures by Clare

Pat working on her elephant bondawebbing tiny pieces

Joy making us all laugh reading out funny animal facts

 

This is what Elise thinks of four hours of satin stitch for her TASTE sampler

(This is what happens when Jude isn't around)

 

Lillian's final block

Janet is trying to prove she is working on her Hundertwasser piece

 

Deb performing Tai Chi?



 
Debbie's needle-felted piece from Michala Gyveti workshop
 

 Lillian and her wonderful charity quilt which is to be raffled

Ice explaining what to do, with a very intent audience

Clare's new quilt top based on one of her original paintings
As always, great work, great environment and great time had by all
Thank you Ice - hope you enjoyed it as much as the ladies
Jude