March 2013

Our second meeting for the year brought seven members attending plus one visitor. There was a message from one member who has become too busy with other pursuits to continue with us, and another regular member who had recently lost a close member of her family . Our thoughts are with her at this sad time.

Pieces were starting to come in for our "Going Postal" challenge, but there will be more on that later. There was also mention of the Margaret Oppen Competition, encouraging us all to enter, as well as Concord Library's challenge of "Say It With Words".

Show & tell is always present in our group, being one of the most anticipated parts of the day.

 Dianne had been working on a band of cross stitch, inspired by a piece of pattern darning held in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England.

Gerri's local group in the Southern Highlands had a task this month to make a Biscornu. Foolishly she chose a pattern for a small one............so..............she had to double the pattern. Finally finishing the patterns for both sides, the edges were joined together by by off-setting the corners to to the halfway point of each square.

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Jenny had finished knitting her baby shawl. Made with Shepherd 3ply Merino Baby Wool, in a pattern from the Shepherd Baby Shawls Collection 1, the shawl is Jenny's greatest knitting challenge. Jenny had knitted with circular needles,  with fine baby yarn, and many a lace pattern before, but never all together, especially with over 2,300 stitches on the needle.The shawl is to be a gift.

Jenny had also been making another quilt. This one is for another family member due to have a baby any day. It is made from a panel of Disney fabric featuring characters from Winnie-the-Pooh. It has been machine quilted on the diagonal, going around the printed patterned squares on the front, giving an interesting pattern on the back.

Robyn had used her own vegetable dyed fabrics to piece together the background for her new shoulder bag. It is seen here with her chosen thread colours.

Our next meeting is a month away, so please come back then to see what fun we will get up to.