We met at the gallery, and migrated to a little coffee shop just down the road , where morning tea was the first order of the day. Show and tell followed.
Jenny was getting in early on stitching a new Christmas decoration for her tree. This one is a Hardanger design found through Pinterest here. The little heart shaped decoration has been stitched onto a scrap of linen found in her stash, and still needs to be finished off by cutting, and applying a backing.
After stitching the Hardanger Christmas heart, there was still fabric left in the linen scrap used, so Jenny also decided to make herself a new bookmark from the fabric that was left. Another Hardanger design, using a mix of threads in her stash, including a hand dyed one.
Annette had been knitting using 4 ply wool. This cute little cardigan is for nine week old Eleanor.
Jenny had also been knitting a blanket. Using a pattern from the Shepherd Baby Shawl Collection 1 book. Jenny had struggled with the edge pattern provided in the book, so decided to use another one. The leaf and berry edge pattern is available free from here, but the pattern only contains instructions for the edge, not a corner. As Jenny wanted the edge to go all around the blanket, she devised a corner using a series of short rows, and the lace edge from the leaf and berry pattern.
Gerri was starting a new scarf cowl, finally meeting a new challenge to crochet something different than Granny Squares. The cowl will eventually look like the pic below.
Gerri was also learning how to do diagonal basket weave crocheting, and was just loving it.
Jenny had also starting knitting a new jumper. Using an 8 ply "Savanah" yarn from Bendigo Woollen Mills which is 70% wool and 30% alpaca. The pattern is also one from Bendigo Woollen Mills
Annette had been making the most delicious marmalade using an unidentified citrus fruit, possibly a tangerine, from her brother's tree. The tree had produced abundant fruit which was put to good use in 3 batches of marmalade and two batches of cordial.
Following show and tell at the coffee shop, we enjoyed lunch before making our way back to the gallery to view the exhibition ' Through The Eye of The Needle'. This exhibition is a body of works stitched by the members of the Embroider's Guild Woolongong Group. We were guided through this exhibition by the lovely Jan Williams and Sue Harper. The exhibition is free, and contains a number of collaborative projects, as well as traditional and contemporary individual pieces.
Following this exhibition, we had a quick look at the 2nd Tamworth Fibre Triennial which was also on at the gallery.
A great day had by all who attended.
