September 10th 2015

 

We are opening this September meeting with a large body of work by Lorraine

 She has been VERY busy

 This newsprint background fabric is stunning and looks brilliant with the bird embroidery

 This is how Lorraine intends to work her pinafore dress - beautiful

This is hand embroidery! Very impressive! 

 This lovely serendipity fabric produced by mopping up the dye

 Well done Lorraine - we were all impressed on how you had spent your Summer - sewing when travelling. Thankfully you were the passenger and not the driver!

We were a very large and busy group today - just as I like it!

A lot of us set to monoprinting

 Ruth's delicate prints on paper

 Finally my thanks to Pat for bringing her Hundertwasser piece to add to the collection. We all loved the twinkling metallic fabric. Well done Pat

Great day today girls, very productive

October is to be led by Ice who will be rediscovering the many faces of Crazy Patchwork

 

                                                                                                                                                       Jude





 

 

August Garden Party 2015

It looked like rain and so we had our garden party indoors today...just in case

Once again, Pat had put on a veritable feast including a chilli and an overwhelming choice of goodies

Our hostess well deserved her gift of flowers for the patio

Thank you Pat xx

Books, magazines, samples, photographs; all were shared with lots and lots of discussion

 

 Elise (our newest member), sharing her hand embroidery

 Major discussion ensued regarding the Hundertwasser work

Lorraine looking radiant

 

I can honestly say I couldn't wait to write the blog today as I am so proud and happy now I have seen the Hundertwasser work laid out together for the first time. IT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! I cannot praise everyone enough for your efforts, hard work, time, effort and wonderful inventiveness. You NEVER let me down and you never stop surprising me. You are all so talented

I hope you agree the work is wonderful. It is in no particular order whatsoever - they have been placed out in the order they came out of their packaging. Think how good they will look when the remaining 3 pieces are added! Then we can decide about mounting (or not) adding foliage and or trees.

Well done my girls and thank you for a wonderful, refreshing afternoon.

 

 

 

 

July meeting

Another beautiful sunny Thursday and the room was full. Enthusiastic ladies with their work and conversation set to work

 Elaine's finished Hundertwasser

 Sylvia's finished Hundertwasser

 Joy's finished Hundertwasser

 Lillian has finished her house and has made some trees which are placed temporarily - at the garden party in August, we will decide in a group, how to display and arrange the buildings. We will need little trees like Lillian's to fill some spaces

 Pat's finished Hundertwasser

Janet L's finished Hundertwasser

 Pat was away today but here is her Hundertwasser

 Alma's Hundertwasser boat is now accompanied by Kay's Hundertwasser caravan

 This lovely large caravan is worked in sumptuous felt work and patchwork

 Joy is working on a new piece of textural embroidery now that she has completed her felt book which is just amazing

 

Joy's felt book

A page of Joy's book

  Lillian worked really hard today to almost complete her beautiful felt book 

Pages of Lillian's book

Some of us could not resist going to the wool shop as they had a sale

Di however, thought she could hide her purchase - needless to say it didn't work!!

Di is working on a detailed piece showing how cross stitch work can be modern and creative

 Pat is making some pieces for National Stitch day based on the Mad Hatter's tea party

One of the sale pieces from the wool shop was a little rabbit which was very appropriate

Unfortunately he isn't white....but then....

Janet C bought the very thing - oh it IS Janet!!

 Elaine worked on a beautiful quilt
Heather has begun a quilt too
                          

Our new project, is the Pinafore dress hanging.

Roberta's dress will consist of many pockets and today she began another pocket

Pat's Pinafore dress fabric...



 

Pat has dyed her fabric for the Pinafore dress project and then used a Thermofax screen to print the trees

 

Still on the theme of trees are these 2 monoprints from a Laura Kemshall workshop on mono printing

Janet L and Sue

Cheryl began a second Hundertwasser piece after misplacing her first one
Free machine embroidery holds down the applique pieces

 Cheryl's piece may make two or three Hundertwasser houses

 

Our next meeting will be our August Summer Party ~ see you there ~ 13th August

I will email you all with a reminder