Jenny chose to play with fabric & threads, using running stitch to gather & pleat, as well as fraying edges.
Robyn over-layed paper with fabric, opening up holes in the fabric to reveal the paper underneath.
Donna also mixed paper & fabric with stitch.
Susan tore paper & over-layed it over more paper.
Our guest Ester used torn fabric strips & textured yarns to stitch over paper. Ester was visiting us for the day from Neville, in the Central Tablelands of NSW. Her passions are spinning, painting & art .
Show & tell brought the following:-
Jenny had been knitting. The feather & fan scarf above is in a 2 ply cashmere yarn from Belisa Cashmere in Bundanoon.
This blue ruffled scarf is in an acrylic yarn while the pattern is from http://www.interweaveknits.com/
This green scarf is using a combination of two yarns, one textured & one plain. It is worked in a simple drop stitch pattern.
These gloves are an experiment with knitting gloves on four needles. Jenny's last red pair were done on two needles exactly to the pattern which created seams. This experiment is using an old pattern from Paytons but adapting it to use 4 needles so as to avoid any seams & to get a more personalised fit.
Susan had been crocheting.
This bag is her own design & consists of two panels in a hand dyed wool. An alternating stitch pattern has been used featuring double crochet & treble stitches . The gusset at the sides & the base, and the top band have been worked in a contrasting wool with the top band worked in the round. A welt pocket features on the inside of the bag & the button closure is a hand-made porcelain one from Carcoar.
This is a corner of the shawl that Susan is currently making. It is worked in a trellis stitch using a Sirdar Crofter yarn. The pattern has been adapted from "Vogue Knitting & Crochet Scarves"
Donna had been sketching and her lovely sketches can be seen on her own blog here.
I wonder what September will bring?
