First up we have Robyn who been working on a UFO, a black-work piece from an Alison Snepp workshop.
Susan's "Happiness" quote embroidery is the 4th in what's turning out to be a
series. It is all in stranded cotton, with lettering outlined in whipped back
stitch, and filled in with satin stitch, and the background filled in with
irregular satin stitch. Susan has been using up her stash, and hopes the effect is joyful and energetic.
Annette has made a Crochet donut. Over the years she has spent a fortune on pink iced donuts
for her daughter. During a clean out, Annette found the instructions for the crochet donut
pincushion which she decided to try. Worked with DMC no 4 cotton and 2.5 hook. No
more bought donuts for her daughter.
These Raised Butterflies are to go on Annette's Pulled work background from last month. The butterflies are worked with silk thread and a thread of shiny variegated
machine thread together in the needle. Why a non machine embroiderer had a lot
of machine embroidery threads in the cupboard Annette did not know but it gives life
to the wings. Worked on silk organza backed with iron on vilene.
Jenny has been using up tiny scraps of even weave fabric, left over from other projects, to create tiny Hardanger motifs. Thread used is a variegated Perle 8. A decision is yet to be made what to do with them .
Susan had crocheted
a beanie for herself, making up her own pattern with a couple of new stitches including a rib effect. It will go over her ears so great for winter in the Tablelands.
Jenny had made progress on her new winter cardigan, finishing another front, and beginning a sleeve. It is being worked in Bendigo Woollen Mills Bloom - Blackberry Bliss
Susan had started her first ever mosaic, an old dinner set being smashed to cover a birdbath, the
inside of the bowl so far, such fun.
For
April, Sheila's daily practice is collage. Continuing to work in a 1995
diary, she creates a paper based collage using her painted papers, gelli
prints, stamped papers and mixed commercial papers to create a design.
The diary confirms that 25 years ago, Sheila was doing the basic (introductory)
course with The Embroiderers' Guild. That lead to the intermediate
certificate which ultimately lead to the formation of Stitchers Plus.
While
being overwhelmed with numbers in relation to the pandemic and trying to see
the relationship between the days, Sheila started collecting and stitching on a
graph that appears in the daily newspaper. She is stitching a french knot
for each death using the state and territory graph bars. The individual
blocks are being assembled in weekly rows which are then joined together.
The resulting work will grow to whatever size it becomes until the newspaper
stops providing the graph.
Sheila
is also working on a major project that needs to be kept under wraps. The
work is still at the point where it could be submitted for exhibition or
submitted to the garbage bin.
Normally our little group has a ten minute exercise at the beginning of our day to get our creative juices flowing. As COVID 19 and the world pandemic has interrupted our meetings, Jenny decided we still needed a creative challenge. A music challenge had been on her agenda for a while, she just had to work out how to deliver it. YouTube Music made it easy, so a link to the following music video was e-mailed to all members of the group, with the advice to close our eyes as we put pen to paper. Our inspiration was found here - Maddie Poppe - 'Made You Miss Miss Me'.
Our results can be seen below.
We hope that this COVID 19 virus will soon be at an end so that we can meet in person again. In the mean time, out Face Book page might provide some other insights into what we do.
