Our meeting this month was held in the foyer of the the Uniting Church Hall at Concord. The AGM of the Guild, and the convenor's meeting, were being held on the same day at this venue. Four of our members were present.
Gerri had attended a class with Fiona Hammond where she made this colourful brooch. It was found to be a very soothing technique and easily completed in a few hours. Gerri enjoyed selecting the beads and threads for this project. Fiona had also brought along a great stash of goodies to peruse and buy.
Jenny had made this baby shawl for her new great niece. Knitted in Bendigo Woollen Mill's Luxury 3ply yarn, the center pattern is from the Shepherd Baby Shawl Collection Book No 1, while the edge pattern is one found on-line here. As the edge pattern was only for a straight edge, Jenny had to create her own corners.
This is a small section of Susan's first piece for the Margaret Oppen Competition with the Embroiderers' Guild NSW. The theme for this competition is 'Diamonds and Other Treasures'. Susan's emphasis will be on the 'Other Treasures', and using the diamond shape as a link between a cloth book. The photo shows detail of trellis couching in diamond shapes, worked in space dyed wool yarns. The holding cross stitch has been worked in a natural dyed silk yarn. Silk noil fabric has been painted over with acrylic paint and used as a background to stitch on.
Gerri has been going through her stash and found off-cuts of canvas that had been kept in a small bag. These has been turned into brooches and book marks with some recently purchased variegated Perle threads and other threads from her stash.
Gerri has also re-visited the birds that she made last year, this time with a Christmas twist, to be used as decorations. Hopefully they will be used every Christmas. The colour combinations are always a surprise when they are completed.
Robyn had been knitting herself a scarf in her favourite colour. The pattern is from Yarn Country and is made in baby alpaca.
This Mexican sugar skull has been hand drawn by Robyn with a Frida Kahlo influence. The design is being interpreted into stitch and will be appliqued onto a denim skirt when completed.
Sheila had been busy making bags. In the above three, she had used pieces from the Marie Yeardly estate to to decorate them. The bags will be donated to the Guild's sales table.
This blue/purple bag was made from a stitching sample. Layers of chiffon were stitched to a hand dyed base. Also made by Sheila
This yellow, plaid, three part bag is made from furnishing fabric donations and is also destined for the Guild's sales table. Another one made by Sheila
Jenny had finished working the back and front of her new jumper. Knitted in "Savanah", an 8 ply yarn from Bendigo Wollen Mills.
This is a page from Jenny's new art journal. Although she had been keeping visual diaries for some years, Jenny wanted to become more comfortable with drawing, and facing the blank white page. For the moment, only a black ball point pen is being used. This page has some slight colour coming through from the next page which has been washed with a tea/coffee solution.
Sheila was one of three artists whose work was featured in the most recent edition of 'Textiles Downunder'. The works have been curated into the 'A Matter of Time' exhibition.
The last month has been wedding orientated for Annette and her family. The wedding cake is 3 tiers of chocolate mud cake, marble cake and the top is the family favourite chocolate cake. All layers are covered with watercolour butter cream icing and decorated with fresh native flowers.
Although our little group is being displaced by the Guild's renovations, and some members moving to country areas, we are still managing to be very creative. Please come back in November to see what we have been getting up to.
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