Our meeting this month brought eight members and four visitors. Roz came to see what we were about and is thinking about joining us, while Wendy was playing hostess to some English viitors, including
Kath Danswan, and her partener, who came in to meet us all. Kath is an English textile artist, and brought some of her hand made
bowls to share with us (seen above). Silk caps, layered between water
soluble fabric and machine embroidered. More of her work can be found on
her
personal blog.
The brooches above were also made by Kath. We were privliged to have Kath speak to us and show us her work
Show and tell, as always, was worth seeing.
Sheila had been busy making more book covers. the top one featuring her own hand dyed fabric and threads with chain stitch. The blue one above features layered and frayed fabrics with couched gold thread.
Gerri had finished "Farmer Sheaf", an exercise and play on sheaf stitch, to find how many ways, and variations the stitch could be used.
Dianne had been playing with colour V's grey, a visual demonstration of how the two could be used.
Donna had created this "face" pin using a mold by
Pearl Moon. Beaded to ensure the face holds to it's background of hand felted wool background.
The above shawl was made by Roz. Inspired by the
Citron Shawl, (a free pattern from
Ravalry) Roz hand spun & hand dyed her own merino and silk blended yarn.
This rose basket 3D fower block is also by Roz. Originally planned to go in a Baltimore quilt, it is now destined for further embellishment and to be made into a cushion.
The two pannels above are also by Roz and are part of a series to go into a quilt. Using Moda towelling fabric, the original designs are stitched using Finca Presencia No 16 in a number of shades of red.
Jenny had been fixing and adding to a counted thread band sampler. The full story can be found
here on her own blog.
Another great day. Perhaps you would all like to come back next month to see what we get up to.
