Sheila had been busy making bags for the Embroiderer's Guild sales table. They were made with a mixture of techniques including patchwork, quilting & FME.
Robyn had been continuing to stitch painted panels on her bag, featuring surface stitching & beading, with some buttons for still more texture.
Robyn had also made this beige linen skirt with 50's retro style surface stitching around the hemline. A close-up of the stitching can be seen here.
Jenny had been playing with more lace. There was this bobbin lace fish, using a mix of threads including a variagated green crochet thread & a green metallic. This little fish is to be part of a coral reef lace display which will travel overseas.
There were also a collection of crocheted flowers, which will eventually be part of donated "goodie bags" for a future Lace Convention.
This piece of drawn thread is a play piece by Jenny, using her own hand dyed fabric & threads.
Donna saw a pattern in a canvas work book which she thought would be perfect for water. This play piece took off from there.
Susan had finished her cushion. The embroidery, completed some years ago, was adapted from a Swedish design. Consisting of mainly satin stitch & straight stitch in Stranded thread, with cotton fabrics added to create borders on the edge.
Wendy had been overseas & had brought back the most beautiful Bengali silk fabric, from a town in Assam. Embroidered all over in running stitches, the piece was quite large, in the Kantha Style, from Sharbari. www.sharbaridatta.com . The pic below shows only a tiny part of the whole piece.
