Party time... December 2018

We complete another year of creativity amongst friends who love to create and share

Water colours 

Discussion

Close up of Margaret's knitted blanket requiring no sewing! 

Sharing

Alma has knitted a Scandinavian wall hanging

Elaine's well organised work station to make patchwork and Christmas gifts

Dawn's needle felting to make an angel 

Pat P is working on a new series of "packets" Omiyage

Joy is almost near completion ... If only people would 

STOP MOVING THE BEADS! 

Sylvia has printed and is now stitching her cotton spool work

Lorraine working on vintage bunting

Lorraine displaying one of her fabrics on a loom spool

Cheryl's teeny, tiny leaves

Janet L's panel for a much larger quilt

Lillian's cotton spool project "Friendship" 

Lunch time... Tuck in to the feast

Annie is putting the finishing touches to her quilt ready for exhibiting

Pondering over Colour Books and Art Journals

Thank you ladies for your support and loyalty to myself and one another. Thank you for your continued love and enthusiasm for the subject. I hope that you will continue to enjoy and work with me in 2019, to flourish and develop your skills.

Jude x

November 2018

We begin our spool project with a free choice of subject matter. 

Margaret (Bi) 

Lorraine - embroidery is rolled up onto the spool and fastened with a little buckle

Ruth laying out images for her second spool

Ruth's prints on organza - they will be cut and applied as pictured on the previous photograph

Joy is depicting a Walter De la Mare poem on her spool in silver and blues using a variety of techniques 

Lillian's Garden on a spool

Other work begins or continues... 

Kay

Elise

By adding some embroidery, Elise's adds texture and areas of interest

Roberta

Elaine (starts Christmas early) 

Margaret (Bi) 

Elise's work ready to stitch after a weekend with Alyson Midgelow-Marsden

Dina is putting together an amazing apron..  Hello colour! 

Di is working on embroidered baubles

Annie continues hand embroidery on her unique print

Pat D is making little Cushions 

How lovely are these papers? 

Remembering others... 

Our choice is to make a bag (or 2) to donate for patients (sizes to follow). 

October 2018

Roberta is embroidering routes on a printed map after her visit to Oxford to see the Tolkien exhibition 

       We forget that Tolkien painted water colours as well as writing

Elise - hand embroidered hearts in progress for part of an exhibition at Wightwick Manor 

Dawn is working on a lovely dyed felt in a selection of hand embroidered stitches including couching

Elaine's Christmas project - embroidered dolls

Pat P continues to design using her collection of French windows and doors 

Clare's hanging for the project at Boundary way. Snippets left by the artists at boundary way including paper and a teabag

Close up of Clare's little landscape in the centre

Janet L - looks like Halloween 

Janet L lending a hand in the decision making for the Colour scheme of Annie's print

Sylvia preparing for Christmas with her hand embroidery 

Dina enjoying her colour book

Ruth working on her LARGE quilt with enthusiasm 

Janet C block printing birds on fabric and card today

Lillian painting in her colour book and... 

Stitching... A lovely book cover 

Lorraine in the early stages of painting her fabric... 

So, our next project to be worked is "on a roll".

We will be painting, dyeing, printing, embellishing and sewing a metre or two of narrow fabric which will roll around a wooden cotton reel. Ruth is modelling one she made earlier for Wightwick Manor exhibition based on 1918

Lorraine's example of using a pearl button and a strap to secure the end of the roll when finished

Jay is working on her roll by using "friendship" and Fred her dog as the source

Fred

Lorraine at the end of the day... Looking beautiful Lorraine 

We can now begin our spool project by choosing any topic, in any colour scheme, bearing in mind the fabulous work that has gone on in the last year for design and the use of colour. 

Jude