February 2013

Welcome to another year of creativity with our group. We had our first official meeting of 2013 last weekend with seven members attending. It had been some months since we had met as a group so there was plenty of chat with much show & tell.

 Sheila had been making brooches with left over pieces of canvas. Stitched wit her own hand dyed threads & commercial buttons.

 Donna is participating with three other embroiderers in a Round Robin. This is her stitching, and the other participants will stitch the same pattern  in colours of their own choosing.

A small section of Sheila's quilt "Grasses", using iron stained fabric, running stitch & whip stitch.

Jenny was busy knitting a circular shawl, using Shepherd 3ply Merino Baby Wool in a pattern from the Shepherd Baby Shawls Collection 1. Many thanks must go to the girls at Morris & Sons, Sydney, who helped her obtain a  circular needle large enough to take the 1,800 stitches required for this shawl.

Dianne was working on a black cockatoo from a Gary Clark workshop. Worked from the back in simple surface stitching.

Sheila had made a zipper bag, copied from one purchased from a Blue Mountains group.

 Gerri had been on a recent trip to Venice & purchased these exquisite treasures.

This is a pencil case given to Annette by her daughter on a recent trip to Laos. It has been hand stitched in vibrant colours.

This book was purchased by Annette on a recent trip to the NGV. A beautiful book covering the social history of Paris, and the fashions and the artists of the time. It gives an insight into the Impressionist time and movement.

Jenny had used the digitized butterfly design that she was playing with in November, to jazz up a baby quilt   for a new family member. The quilt & all the back story can be seen on Jenny's personal blog as well as here.

Some of the finished pieces for our "Going Postal "  Challenge were revealed, while others are still works in progress. All of these will be revealed in good time, so please keep visiting to maybe catch a glimpse and  see what we get up to next.