For our July meeting, four members travelled to the southern highlands region for a meeting at Annette’s home. Annette’s warm welcome countered any winter chill in the air.
We began our gathering with a delightful morning tea, then it was time to begin stitching and show and tell.
Susan had been English piecing hexagons using fabrics in her stash. We were impressed with Susan’s novel use of a thread organiser to contain her hexagons that are ready to stitch.
Geri has been given a commission and provided on overview of her plans and design. Unfortunately, she cannot reveal any details. Sourcing Geri’s preferred fabric has been a challenging issue.
Annette and Sheila both made bags using a multilayered design. Annette incorporated a previously stitched needle-laced square into an overall bag design.
Sheila continues to use her favourite raised chain stitch to decorate the bags she made.
Last month, we all looked at a bag design to determine how it was assembled and Sheila had made a sample. The zipper wraps around the bag from one point to the opposite point. Now to work out how and where to add the handle to it.
Sheila had been to Melbourne and was able to view ‘The Dressmaker’ exhibition at Rippon Lea. Rippon Lea is a National Trust property in Melbourne. ‘The Dressmaker’ is an Australian movie starring Kate Winslet and a host of well known Australian actors. The actors were dressed in a combination of vintage clothing and clothing designed specifically for the movie.
Then it was time for lunch, followed by delicious cakes compliments of Annette and Geri. Annette’s collection of vintage place-mats were an added bonus to lunch.
After lunch, we assembled all of our works for our collaborative piece for the Embroiderers’ Guild biannual exhibition. The details of that are under wraps until the exhibition is opened in late August. It was exciting to see most of the works and determine the best arrangement for display.
The details of our collaborative piece will be revealed next month.
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