April... Spring forward

The sun is shining and already we find that we have sprung into Spring

A wedding is imminent for Jude so embroidered slippers for the day

Lillian's embroidered nuno felt

Lillian stitching more nuno felt

Elaine's applique hanging in progress 

Hand embroidery today for Elise 

Pat P working on her large antique bobbin reel

Joy's pincushion based on a golf tee

Joy's jar lid almost finished

Janet L - her true to life story roll

Connect in Threads by Di in rust effects

Margaret Bo... Gelli plate print is a lovely landscape

Janet C - up-cycled jeans

Lovely prints by Margaret Bo. 

Dina's mixed media apron 

Di has made some wonderful mini cards

Debbie has worked very hard to hand embroider this story roll

Sylvia's beaded jar lid

Sylvia's Christmas roll is complete

Pat D is embroidering a family tree in the hearts for her cotton spool

Lorraine has a lovely collection of nuno felt

Lorraine is embroidering her felted bowl

Cheryl has printed on her nuno felt

I am ending with a model pose by Dina, wearing her mixed media apron

Be proud girls... Very proud

Jude

March - Print and Expand

Play time and experiment with printing blocks, texture rubbings and expandaprint/puff paint

By using expandaprint through a butterfly stencil on a printed background

Expandaprint through a thermofax screen 

Lorraine's expandaprint on velvet

Some lovely effects started to appear

Jude demonstrated using Inktense on a thermofax screen

 Other work continued this afternoon
Margaret Bi, preparing to needleweave over a wire ring

Dina has produced a wonderful Art apron

Close ups

 Margaret Bos has a beautiful jar lid...

 and is now printing through a stencil to work on top with expandaprint

 Annie and her blues quilt with hand embroidered embellishment

Margaret Bi building up layers

 Lillian is painting texture today

Roberta continues to stitch her map

Elise has begun to tent stitch a bee for a group project

Joy is stitching French knots

Lorraine printing in her sketch book

Diana's design for her story roll based on 'the owl and the pussycat'

Di demonstrated how to knit linen stitch

The effect is like a woven cloth

Our first session without our dear friend Pat has been a challenge but we remember her fondly today and always at Bradmore.