November 2014

It was our last Meeting of the year last Saturday. Being this time of the year, a few of us had other commitments so there was only five of us for the day.

Our Collaborative Project had been shown in late October at "Surprise", an exhibition of the Embroiderer's Guild NSW Inc. For anyone who missed this delightful exhibition and our group display, our pieces can be seen below. Our theme - "Houses". All pieces were to have the same angle, so when placed in a row, a curved "Thread Needle Street" was formed.

"Little Green House" by Robyn

Painted artist canvas with surface stitching and stumpwork. 

H 18cm, W 36cm.

"House - Lost World" by Susan

Relief panel of mono print and appliqué.  House in shallow relief with embroidered details, and a 'sleeping beauty' garden in various couched threads and french knots.

H 15 cm, W 29cm

"Small Double Fronted House" by Wendy

Surface stitchery on linen.

"Holiday House" by Jenny

Coloured pulled work using blended threads and worked on linen.

H 31cm,  W 28cm

"Wicked Van" by Annette

"Tree House" by Sheila

Surface stitching, appliqué and  machine embroidery. Using her own hand dyed threads of various sicknesses, the tree trunk is stitched in raised chain band while the windows& doors are raised stem stitch and have appliquéd separately. The leaves are machine stitched using commercial threads on hand dyed fabric, mounted on wire. The ladder is machine stitching over wire.

H 44cm W 37cm

"No 23" by Robyn

Machine embroidery on red felt with beading.

H 41cm, W 17cm

"Windmill Home" by Gerri

"Road To Where ?" by Dianne

A birds eye view of a street scene. Surface stitching on Linen.

H 44cm. W 37cm

"Dog House" by Donna

Painted canvas, clay figure, appliquéd felt, and free form embroidery.

H 74cm , W 21 cm.

Show and tell for the day included the following:-

A page from Sheila's travel journal - watching people in the Flower Dome in the gardens by the bay in Singapore. Her husband was snoozing at the time.

Donna's crazy patchwork project incorporating her "An Apple A Day" personal challenge that she has set herself. On Saturday Donna managed to draw, stitch, and print an apple, and hopes to have a journal full of apples by this time next year.

A sample of Jenny's travel  knitting. Jenny needed something mind numbing to do on a recent trip away, but creative enough not to get bored. This drop stitch pattern provided enough interest without needing too much thinking, especially when incorporating three different colours.  Using all pure wool in a combination of 2ply and 4 ply, the end result will be a tubular scarf knitted sideways on circular needles.

Robyns Canvas work embroidery playing with stitches and threads.

Sheila brought in a little fun for us to participate in for the morning. Making stamps with some cheap foam pads and a ball point pen. The following are our efforts for a small part of the morning.

Following our fun with our own hand crafted stamps and stamp pads, discussions were held  as to our program for next year. We are all set on our thinking path, but to find out what this is you will all have to come back next year to continue to follow us in our journey.  Until then, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and creative 2015.

October 14

A short blog post today catching up for our October meeting. Show & tell for the day included the following:-

Above is Susans's 'Earth Stripe' bag. It is her own design, which she has crocheted in a variety of yarns. It has been lined with fabric, which has  also used to make the shoulder straps.  The finished bag has been decorated with a variety of beads and buttons.

This is Gerri's Russian doll  which has been worked from a pattern in Knitting and Crochet magazine.  The doll was completed in a couple of days.

These faces are Sheila's Travel stitching project. They are hand appliqued  using scraps from previous quilting projects, and were inspired inspired by Charla Khanna.

These two pieces are by Wendy, who has been having fun playing with thread, fabric and stitch.

This is Annette's work in progress after  misreading/misremembering the instructions for using thin fabric, wool fleece, dyed cheesecloth and kantha  stitching.  Unknown end result at this stage.

This is Dianne's 'Backyard View' - a class sample in development.

The beginnings of Robyn's Dresden embroidery begun in a class with Christine Bishop.

Our group will be meeting again in a few days. Our collaborative project has been shown & exhibited & we should have our pieces back at our meeting. So come back in a few days and all may well be revealed.