June 2010 - A Raffle

Our meeting this month was all about preparations for our up coming exhibition. Check out over on the side bar as well as on our new page called "Exhibitions". Invitations, advertising flyers, articles & accompanying photos have all be have been done.

We have also organised a raffle, proceeds of which will go towards the building fund of our Guild HQ. Included in the prize is Donna's embroidery, already mounted.


Sheila's surface stitched book cover,

Robyn's Sashiko embroidered bag,



and an "objet trouve" brooch by "Jillycan" which has been donated by Susan.

Anyone interested in purchasing tickets in this raffle, please contact The Embroiderers Guild of NSW Inc at
info@embroiderersguildnsw.org.au

The raffle is on display at Guild HQ, 76 Queen St, Concord West. NSW , and will be drawn on August 21st, 2010.

May 2010

A great turnout for our meeting this month, with only one of our members being absent. The morning was spent discussing our up-coming exhibition, and some great headway was made into the planning. For anyone interested, this will be held at Guild HQ from 29^th July to 26^th August . We also had a visit from a prospective new member.

The travelers had all returned with great show & tell, some of which can be seen below.

Susan had been working on this piece, "Memory Of Trees - Eudlo 2009". Inspired by the quiet of the rainforest while staying with friends in the hinterland of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, the piece features herringbone stitch worked onto pure wool felt.

This bag was Susan having fun with embroidery, & features 1970's Laura Ashley fabrics pieced together. The stitched pieces are a inspired from a combination of much loved sources, and all come together into this great functional bag.



Cathy had made these beads as part of a Kim Tittichai workshop. They were made with strips of hand painted Tyvek & pre-dyed lutrodur, with a wrapping of wire.


Sheila had been playing with rust dyed fabrics & practicing her life drawing skills. The snippets below show how the two skills come together, and are combined with surface stitching.
Sheila's rusted fabric with couching.

A small section of Sheila's latest quilt. The whole quilt can be seen at the quilt show in Darling Harbour later this year.

Donna had made this necklace, consisting of hand felted beads of wool that she bought on holiday in New Zealand. The necklace is sitting on a seascape background of calico, hand painted with acrylic paints , then stitched with a combination of both hand & machine stitches.
Enjoy.

April 2010

Another quiet meeting this month with some of our members being busy with other activities, including attending workshops at Orange, in Central Western NSW. As usual, there was much chat, (including reports on the meeting in Wagga Wagga), along with checking out of new books & magazines that some of had aquired over the last month. There was also much discussion about possible future challenges & the use of computers for creative purposes.

Show & tell included the following:-

"Watermark" by Donna was inspired by her need to "play", as well as ripples on a beach. Acrylic painted calico was then free machined in variegated thread & hand stitched using perle threads.

Susan had been to Wagga Wagga & had produced a concertina style book to illustrate her time away. Made using maps, carry bags, phamplets, postcards, decorative papers & her own notes, a wonderful memory of her trip between Young & Wagga Wagga in the Riverina District of NSW. Above is the cover, and below are just two of the pages inside.

Robyn had finished the second last shape on her bag & it includes paint, carved lino block printing, & surface stitching.


There was also this play with stitches on a Pfaff sewing machine by Robyn, which had been turned into a small bag.
Just a snippet of Jenny's creative piece of Drawn Thread on her own hand dyed linen. Where is the drawn thread you all ask? Well you will all have to come back for another visit to see that!

Enjoy!

March 2010

A very quiet meeting on Saturday with some members attending a meeting in Wagga Wagga.

Show & tell included the next square on Robyn's bag. Inspired by a 1950's style curtain, it includes paint & surface stitching.



This patchwork panel by Robyn is ready to be added into a bag.


Jenny had finished her bobbin lace fish, which will be off travelling to Japan later in the year. Worked in cloth stitch in three different threads, ( including a metallic), with a giant spider in the center and a bead for an eye, the fish is padded with pellon, felt, & organza. He is also double sided so he can hang.



Wendy had added buttons for texture onto this patchwork bag that she had enjoyed making from Libby's left-over fabrics. As they say, "one person's trash in another persons treasure"

February 2010

Our meeting this month was all show & tell.

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.