Our May meeting brought with it full attendace and a line drawing design exercise from Robyn. Beginning with three straight lines or circles, we then drew horizontal lines so that when we came to cross the line or shape, we drew around them instead, never touching . The lines then were repeated, sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, sometimes with "blips". Our efforts can be seen below.
By Robyn:-
By Jenny:-
By Sheila:-
By Georga:-
By Cathy:-
By Wendy:-
Show & tell brought much eye candy.
This bag, called "Fireworks" by Cathy, was made in an Isobell Hall workshop at Textile Fiber Forum in Orange NSW. The bag is painted brown paper which was scrunched, quilted, heat treated, waxed, painted & hand stitched.
Also by Cathy, this bag used coccon stripping paper, with acrylic wax, stamping, painting & other techniques.
This bag by Sheila was also made by bleaching velvet & over dying.
Sheila made this book following the instructions from the latest "Stitch" magazine.
Cathy had made this textured surface with hot glue & stamping.
Robyn had been learning to digitize.
Sheila had also been to Fiber Forum at Orange, where she attended a Jan Irvine Neale workshop " Running Stitch With Style"
Libby had won 1st prize in the Contempory Hand Embroidery section at Cotton Fibre Expo at Narrabri with this stunning piece.
Jenny had been making more
lace and practicing her tallies.
Donna had been making postcards.
Georga visited to see what we got up to & has decided to stay . So we all welcome her to our group.
Our meeting last Saturday saw a fun morning playing with kaleidoscope designs. We all chose an immage that we liked, cut a wedge from it, then placed the wedge around a central point. It was interesting to note how the number of wedges used and placement of wedges gave some very interesting results. A few of us then started tracing the predominent lines to achieve workable designs.
This one was Cathy's, using a copy of an engeneering drawing .
Show & tell brought a small quilt from Sheila featuring her own hand dyed fabric & running stitch. The fabiric was dyed during a natural dying workshop with Kath Wilkinson.
There was also another basket made from scraps following the directions in "Cloth, Paper , Scissors"
This is the inside of the basket.
Robyn had made a bag to hold all her small brooches long term. Eventually the sections will all be painted.
Above is the lower section of another doll brooch in progress, to be added to the above bag.
Jenny had been making still more lace, this time a rose leaf worked in a combination of bobbin lace & needle lace. 
Robyn was adding beads to this scarf which was decorated with a machine embroidered lace motif ( John Deer Design), which had been embroidered on a Janome Embroidery Machine.
Cathy's piece above had been worked in a Jean Collyer workshop. Featuring painted brown paper, woven tyvek, teabag, paper & raised wooden skewers & stitching.
Donna had been working on a canvas work piece "Daintree Dreaming", based on memories of the leaf litter she had seen in the rain forrest. 
Libby had been preparing for an exhibition, "A Conversation With Rain", to be held at:-
Jenny had been producing more lace, as well as working on a counted thread sampler in which colour, eyelets & blackwork were explored. The full story of the sampler can be read 
Sheila used the vein lines in the leaf above to achieve these patterns.
Both Wendy & Libby used the same piece of bark from a xanthorea grass tree. Wendy sketched, while Libby "thread doodled" straight onto fabric. 
Donna used this piece of coral for her inspiration for her sketches.
Jenny used a different piece of coral to produce these sketches.