November 2012

Last Saturday was our last meeting for the year, that ment Christmas Lunch with an amazing array of  food. Everything from crackers and cheese, dips, cold meats and salads, fruit and pavlova, fruit mince slice and biscotti, not to mention the coffe and mints. Yummo! Of course, that also meant that there were 10 members present.

Show and tell as always provided some goodies to excite us.

Gerri had nearly finished a quilt for her son. Made from a class in 2009/2010, the quilt features a 3D colour arrangement of blocksbased on "Y" seams.



Donna had been making postcards based on drawings that she had done on holidays to the Cook Islands. The postcards will be for the "Going Postal" challenge due next year.

These block prints are by Donna, using Easy Carve and block printing ink, acrylic paint and lots of enthusiasm.

Jenny had been playing with some digitizing, changing a butterfly design to something more suited to it's end result. This one still needs some tweaking and will eventually be stitched out in white on pink fabric.

This is part of Jenny's Byzantine Lefkara Lace piece that she started in September with Chrishine P. Bishop.

"Jack's Chessbord" by Gerri is a story board of things about Jack, his big trips, his likes, sports and heratige with Granny.

During the day there was much talk about the Capital Campaign and ways to raise money for out new Center of Excellence, also how to raise awaeness to our cause. Anyone wishing to contribute a donation towards our new Center of Excellence can do so here. Donations over $2 are tax detuctable and well worth the investement to ensure the future of embroidery lives on.

There were also discussions about our "Going Postal" challenge for 2013, but you will all have to come back next year to see what that challenge may produce. Until then, Seasons Greetings to all.