Our group met last weekend and is growing still further with the addition of Annette Y. We welcome her to our group and hope she enjoys her time with us. Nine of us enjoyed a day full of creativity, fun and laughter. We missed Susan via an internet meeting, with technology not quite working on the day. Maybe next time.
Show and tell always brings out some amazing work, all of which is showed below.
Sheila's work 'Strata 2' is currently on display in the Bainz Gallery in Wangaratta. The work was created for the exhibition, 'A Sense of Place' as part of the biennial Stitched Up Festival. The work measures 50 cm by 50 cm and is stitched solidly with raised chain stitch using her own hand dyed threads and some commercial threads. Additional found objects have been incorporated into the work. The Stitched Up Festival is finished but the exhibition continues through to the end of July.
The Two stitched "postcards" above are by Leslie. Both are non assessed homework for Mary's Contemporary Stitch and Design Course. The brief was to use dense, straight stitches.
Continuing on from last months Rice Stitch exercise, Robyn has completed the flap for a shoulder bag. She has made the bag from Pig skin leather in three different colours.
Jenny had turned her rice stitch exercise from last month into a scissor fob.
Jenny had also finished off a bobbin lace book mark. The pattern is from a book of 'Bedfordshire Lace Making' by Pamela Nottingham. The book mark is made using a King Tut variegated quilting thread for the border, and a combination of the King Tut thread and a Mettler Silk finish 100% cotton No 50 for the flowers.
Jenny was also continuing on with her knitted shawl, working the final border. New things learnt with this project have been 'Bee Stitch', and joining the border to the main body as the shawl is worked. The pattern is 'Hush little Baby Please Don't Cry'.
Susan's embroidery started this month is a quote from an artist whose exhibition Sheila and her saw on their Bendigo trip back in 2018.
Sheila and Susan traveled together during July visiting various art galleries. They saw the Ceramic Award at the Shepparton Art Museum and the royal portraits at the Bendigo Art Gallery. Then they spent three days taking in all the exhibitions in and around Wangaratta, that were part of the Stitched Up Festival. The Wangaratta Art Gallery was exhibiting the Contemporary Textile Prize, where textiles are pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions. Well worth a visit. All interested textile addicts should attempt to attend the Festival in future. You will be well rewarded.
Above is Susan's development of a design, using a small part of an image of a mixed media work in Shepparton as inspiration.
Susan has also been creating a 'Library of Shapes' from their trip to Wangaratta. Thanks go to Julie Paterson for the idea. The double page image is an example of shapes that she collected from various exhibitions that they saw, and there is an example of the print blocks that Susan carved from her library of shapes
Sheila was using lines repeated on an index card as part of her ICAD challenge.
The line used was one she created from an exercise on line earlier in the day.
Our challenge for the morning was an exercise on line that Jenny had prepared. We all picked three types of lines from a container, then put pen to paper using the three words as inspiration.
Below are some of the results of this exercise that was produced on the day.
Our little group has grown and the inspiration and work produced is diverse. So please come back next month for another visit to see what we get up to.
