November '09

There were five of us at our meeting this month, with one visitor. Being out last meeting for the year, a few of us had other commitments. Show & tell as always was fantastic.

Robyn had been playing with patchwork which features needle turn, curved piecing, foundation, and free machine embroidery.
Her spirit doll that was begun in August was now conplete.

Jenny had crocheted her daisies together into a scarf,

played with Teneriffe Lace,

and finished her first Bedfordshire Lace bookmark.

Donna was playing with canvas work, exploring stitches into panels that will eventually turn into tote bags.

Libby had finished the Glasses challenge that Sheila had given us in February, but you will have to wait a while until the others are finished & they can all be displayed together.

This was our last meeting for 2009, so come visiting again in January to see what we will get up to in 2010.

October '09

There were just a few of us that showed up for our meeting this month.



Libby as usual had great show & tell. The above two pics are more snippits from her "4 Season's" series.

Robyn had been working on the face of her doll from our August meeting. Come visiting next month to see the finished lady.

During the day Robyn created her own book plate for a newly purchased book that morning.

Jenny sat & created daisies all day from a fancy knitting yarn. Around 90 are required for the project that she has in mind.

After lunch Sheila arrived with her stunning rust dyed samples that were created using washers & nails on fabric dampened with water and/or vinegar.

All in all a quiet day with much magazine & book browsing, lots of cuppas, much chat & visitors from the South Coast.

September '09

There were just six of us at our meeting this month, taking lines for a walk. It was interesting to see our different interpretations in this exercise.

Show & tell as always was awe inspiring.

Details of wrapped pannels by Libby, "Winter" & "Autumn".

A running stitch sample by Sheila, inspired by a photograph.

August '09

Our meeting last Saturday saw a fun morning playing with kaleidoscope designs. We all chose an immage that we liked, cut a wedge from it, then placed the wedge around a central point. It was interesting to note how the number of wedges used and placement of wedges gave some very interesting results. A few of us then started tracing the predominent lines to achieve workable designs.

This one was Cathy's, using a copy of an engeneering drawing .

Show & tell brought a small quilt from Sheila featuring her own hand dyed fabric & running stitch. The fabiric was dyed during a natural dying workshop with Kath Wilkinson.
There was also another basket made from scraps following the directions in "Cloth, Paper , Scissors"This is the inside of the basket.

Robyn had made a bag to hold all her small brooches long term. Eventually the sections will all be painted.

Above is the lower section of another doll brooch in progress, to be added to the above bag.

Jenny had been making still more lace, this time a rose leaf worked in a combination of bobbin lace & needle lace.

July '09

It was meeting day again this past weekend with show & tell as always very interesting.

This is a snapshot of Libby's "Suburban Garden",

while this is a snapshot of her "Plants On A Windowsill".


Both the above works will be part of a proposed forthcomming solo exhibition and feature strongly with fabric manipulation.


Jenny had been producing leaves in bobbin lace. Both the gum leaf & rose leaf above were experiments.


Donna had been chain stitching & buttonhole stitching rings. The piece was inspired by feeding the fish at the Bay of Isles. There were also some wonderful sketches, some of which can be seen here.

Robyn was adding beads to this scarf which was decorated with a machine embroidered lace motif ( John Deer Design), which had been embroidered on a Janome Embroidery Machine.

Cathy's piece above had been worked in a Jean Collyer workshop. Featuring painted brown paper, woven tyvek, teabag, paper & raised wooden skewers & stitching.

A relaxing day had by all.

June '09

There were only five of us attending on Saturday but we still had fun. Our design exercise this month was on wordplay, taken from "Design Synetics" by Nicolas Roukes. Sheila had prepared two groups of words & we each picked one word from each group which were then used as inspiration.

Robyn's designs from the words "Illuminated - keys" & "Twisted target"

Jenny's "Mechanized -map".

For show & tell, Libby had been working on "A Garden for Clarice" featuring lots of tiny appliques.

Jenny had been practicing bobbin lace,

as well as working some crazy patchwork.

Robyn had been having fun with a computerized sewing machine & had made this bag featuring a digitized design in a metalic gold thread.

Sheila had finished this small quilt from her class at Fiber Forum,

stitched a small piece for a special project she is working on,

and made baskets from fabric strips following the directions in Cloth Paper Scissors Studio Issue.

Check us out again in a month's time to see what else we will get up to.

May '09

Our May meeting brought with it full attendace and a line drawing design exercise from Robyn. Beginning with three straight lines or circles, we then drew horizontal lines so that when we came to cross the line or shape, we drew around them instead, never touching . The lines then were repeated, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, sometimes with "blips". Our efforts can be seen below.

By Robyn:-

By Jenny:-
By Sheila:-By Georga:-

By Cathy:-
By Wendy:-

Show & tell brought much eye candy.

This bag, called "Fireworks" by Cathy, was made in an Isobell Hall workshop at Textile Fiber Forum in Orange NSW. The bag is painted brown paper which was scrunched, quilted, heat treated, waxed, painted & hand stitched.


Also by Cathy, this bag used coccon stripping paper, with acrylic wax, stamping, painting & other techniques.


This bag by Sheila was also made by bleaching velvet & over dying.

Sheila made this book following the instructions from the latest "Stitch" magazine.

Cathy had made this textured surface with hot glue & stamping.

Robyn had been learning to digitize.

Sheila had also been to Fiber Forum at Orange, where she attended a Jan Irvine Neale workshop " Running Stitch With Style"

Libby had won 1st prize in the Contempory Hand Embroidery section at Cotton Fibre Expo at Narrabri with this stunning piece.

Jenny had been making more lace and practicing her tallies.

Donna had been making postcards.

Georga visited to see what we got up to & has decided to stay . So we all welcome her to our group.