June meeting 2016

The morning was spent without me cracking the whip but work continued on an individual basis in my absence and also in the Colour books (CBs)

I am impressed at the enthusiasm for the Colour books I have to say!

In the afternoon we began a new page in our CBs based on repeating motifs

Without using the word "design" everyone was repeating their pattern taken from an image in the CBs, and developing some lovely design work just as a fabric printer would when designing material for furnishing fabrics or fashion

Motifs were reflected and turned upside down. Dropped a full drop, a half drop, moved diagonally and so on. The designs were then carefully coloured in individual colour combinations or in monochrome

We ended the day by discussing the progress of our elephant work

Alma never ceases to surprise us and she produced 5 exotic elephants

Here is Sylvia hard at work on her printed elephant - looking amazing! (Both Sylvia and the work)

Thank you ladies for a very productive day and thank you to my trusty photographer Elise

Jude

The Merry Month of May Meeting

It really is a beautiful "Merry month of May" and our work continues to expand and inspire us all

We have had very positive feedback from our shared exhibition with the Wolverhampton branch of the Embroiderers' Guild. Congratulations to everyone 

We welcomed Dawn to our group today - our membership is officially now closed. If we grow any more we are in danger of  losing our sharing capacity

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Our work today can be divided into 3 sections

Firstly, Colour Books

 Stunning work Annie - Annie will hopefully 'share and tell' her technique for this lovely body of work, next month. Ideal for our framed Black, White and one other colour piece

 I love this idea of using a page to frame the texture rubbings on the page below

 Margaret B's wonderful use of colour inspired at the Cone 

 Texture was the key for today and we used textured plates and mixed media including fabric crayons and wax crayons, on tissue papers and tissue laid over wood-chip wallpaper

 Great textures and subtle use of colour

 Lovely detail - where texture meets stitch!

 Sylvia worked extremely hard today

 Her use of tissue paper to create texture is exemplary

 Annie's triumph in black and white where a little colour has seeped in from the page beneath to give a wonderful happy accident

 Clare caught the 'bug' with tissue paper and wood-chip

 Lovely colour mixing Elise

Alma's colour book is inspired by her travels - Alma is well travelled!

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Secondly, our Elephant Frieze

 Joy's applique in blue on a lovely dyed background

 Sylvia has begun to hand embroider her lovely printed elephant

We decided that the elephant is too beautiful not to be seen from the front so we were unanimous in our decision to have elephants facing the viewer as well as facing East or West - ANYWAY is ok!

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Finally, Individual project work

Applique hand embroidered birds by Debbie

Jude is using Acanthus leaves as part of a painting on 3 canvasses

Roberta is stitching the hands of her family as a memory piece

 You can see how hard we all worked today.

Barely time for chat and cake :) 

Well done ladies...a pleasure as always