And more works ...

Here's Carol's latest piece of weaving - a luscious scarf. It's hard to see from the photo but it has a beautiful subtle pattern from the colours of yarn she's used. Gorgeous!

She's still going on her knitted Doctor Who scarf as well.

 

Helen has finished her little Memory Blanket, her personal version of the Traveller's Blanket. This has been a work in progress for some time but I don't think we've shown it here.

It has many small pieces of fabric that are significant to Helen. She plans to make it into a book cover.




Jan has been continuing to work on this embroidery, which you saw here a while back...









... while Maz was working on this embroidered rock paperweight, inspired by Helen's work. Helen is the group's go-to person for anything relating to embroidery!

Meanwhile, Nola was beginning a new knitting project.

It's going to be a jacket called Metro from the book Swing Swagger Drape by Jane Slicer-Smith. You can see images of the coat here. The yarn is a variegated wool called Murano from Bendigo Woollen Mills. The jacket is knitted with intarsia, so each section has a different ball of yarn.

Yvonne has been away collaborating on a community tapestry called 
'My Place', involving year 5 & 6 students from Jervis Bay School, members of the public, Denise Stevens and herself. This project was part of Synergy, the collaborative artworks section of the "See Change" Jervis Bay & Basin Arts Inc. Winter Arts Festival. You can see more about this project on Yvonne's blog.

We meet again towards the end of the month, with more postcards to swap and more work to show you!

Some bits of work...

Sometimes, it looks like we create things from nothing, on this blog. So here are some photos of us actually doing something in our times together. Plus some things we've made.

Here are some owl canvas embroideries that Helen has been working on at our meetings.

 Yes, well spotted, the second one did become a postcard!

Nola was braiding multiple strands of embroidery threads to create a watchband. It's quite fiddly because, even braiding many strands, the braid is quite fine.

Yvonne is working on her favourite activity, tapestry weaving. She has no special plan for these little pieces - they will find their way into something one day.

 

Helen had a challenge from another group, Lateral Stitchers, which she brought along to show us. She had to make a book wrap and a matching postcard in response to one of those paint sample cards you get at the hardware store. Her paint card was turquoise.

Here's the book wrap. It has a pocket in one end and a button, and the other end wraps around the book and attaches to the button.  She trapped fabric snippets behind netting.

The gorgeous blue netting is from a bag they sell fruit in, at her local greengrocer!
Here's the matching postcard:

Beautiful!

Carol has been bringing this scarf along to Fibrecircle for a while. Not surprising, as it's going to be a real Doctor Who scarf, metres and metres long.



 Here's some embroidery - can you guess whose it is? Yes, it's Helen's. She does such beautiful handwork.

 



She made this beautiful sea scene as well

 



Jan was working on this piece of  cloth - it will be a postcard sometime soon.

And last meeting, Nola was working on her rigid heddle loom, creating a sample piece for warp and weft floats.

You'll see a photo of this when it comes off the loom.

Happy creating!

August do your own thing

Due to a mental failure, few photos were taken this month and none at the last meeting. Here's what I did capture:
Tricia's gorgeous Tunisian crochet wrap

This has a beautiful necklace to go with it, which I was not quick enough to capture.

Carol was working on bookmarks for sale at ATASDA's Palm House Exhibition, in the Sydney Botanic Gardens from today until August 26. Aren't they gorgeous?

Beverley was in a post-creative mood, after finishing her work for the Palm House Exhibition. She was working on a patchwork friendship block, here roughly assembled so we could see what it would look like.

I didn't photograph Helen's work - sorry, Helen! She was making kits for her embroidery group to applique as a group project.

I'm sorry to say I was hemming pants, but I must add, in justification, that I'll be carrying them onto a plane later this week. However, my show and tell, which I was working on last meeting, was a newly-finished fine wool wrap. I'm very happy with it, even though it was made with leftover baby wool. I wanted to improve my selvedges by working with fine wools, and I'm very pleased with the way it looks.