September 14

It was a small group of only five of us last Saturday. Some of us were working on our collaborative project, while others had finished, and were setting into other projects. All will be revealed on this project in the near future.

Show and  tell on the day included the following:-

Jenny had finished a Bedfordshire lace (a form of bobbin lace) bookmark. The pattern is by  Olwyn Scott and  Robyn Hueppauff, published in Australian lace, 2005, and came with no instruction at all. Jenny is grateful to all the members of this group for all their help and encouragement.

Wendy had started her "New Life", a tree fern bud found in Bermagui at the "Four Winds" music festival.

Donna had been given some lovely black and white fabric scraps by Wendy. After looking at them for a while, she decided to work a free form pattern in white on black, incorporating the fabric scraps. The plan is to continue to stitch for a while, add batting, a backing and a bind.

Donna had also made these cacti by binding aluminium wire with Paverpol  (a water based fabric hardener) dipped cloth. The first one has been  made by wrapping aluminium wire around a polystyrene ball, then covering with T-shirt fabric. Inspiration for these two cacti came from a wool wrapped cactus that Donna had seen on-line.

This is Susan's "Earth Stripe Bag" in the making. Using double crochet stitch variations in the round in a variety of yarns, improvizing the stripes as it is worked.

Next month may be the big reveal of our collaborative project. Please come back for another visit to see what this could possibly be.