May 2013

Our meeting this month brought eight in attendance with lots of show & tell. Donna & Wendy have  been working hard on the Capital Campaign Committee & have given us all a new challenge which can be read about here. Please all help us in our challenge, it is all to help raise funds for our new Center of Excellence For Embroidery.

Sheila had worked this lovely gum leaf piece using surface stitching and fabrics from Kirsten Ingemar's natural dyeing course at the Context Art Forum.

Robyn had been been stitching letters for the challenge. Look at all those french knots!

 Annette had finished this biscornu, using a counted thread pattern from a magazine. It had been sitting in a drawer, stitched, but not made up, for a long time. When her local group's project was to make a biscornu, this fitted the bill.

Jenny had attended the first day of a three day workshop "My Swatchbook 2, Holes, Windows, Textures &  Edges" with Effie Mitrofanis. Above are her samples of Hedebo edges worked on day 1.

 Donna had been experimenting with paint on fabric. This example uses watercolour which was then embellished with surface stitching.

Donna had also been playing with surface stitches to create a cactus theme.

This is Wendy's passport cover. It is aari work, stitched onto bandhani silk by Asif Shaikh, from Ahmedabad, India.

Wendy purchased this design from Carol Douglas. it has been worked in free form ladder chain stitch onto cotton by a village woman from bujh, India.

Our next meeting is in June. I wonder what we will get up to then.