June Meeting

Today I announced the new topic for the next exhibition.  We are going to look at 'Warriors'.  It can be any period, any country, male or female or anything that the title brings to mind.  Most people seemed OK with the idea so hopefully there will be lots of interesting pieces of work coming out.

The postcard challenge got under way with everyone getting their postcards in and changed for a new one.  Now all we have to do is make a postcard size piece of work based on the picture on your postcard.  No one saw what they were choosing, all the cards fitted into identical envelopes.

Several members joined in a 'Dyeing Day'.  We had a really busy time, and everyone enjoyed themselves and was pleased with their results.  We plan to display them all next month when they have been washed and ironed.  We followed some very simple instructions from a very good book called 'Dyeing in a Plastic Bag' by Helen Deighan which demonstrates how you can dye small quantities of fabric at home without make a lot of mess.

 Here are Barbara, Roma and Janet all working hard.

 

One of Barbara's patterned pieces in the making

 

 

Ann wasn't dyeing today.  She has been doing Kantha style stitching and also practising whip stitch on a patterned fabric.  You can't see the stitching very well here but it does look lovely.

June morning meeting

Just five of us attended the morning meeting this month.  Several were busy working on items for another exhibition in August by the Scarborough Stitchers.  It will be held at St Hilda's Church, Ravenscar from the 7th to the 10th August, 10am to 4pm.  A couple of us were doing samples and trying things out.  Maureen was working on a small book using pelmet vilene.  She had seen the technique at the Ryedale Embroiderers' Guild meeting last week.  I was quite pleased with these samples I did from Maggie Beal's newest book New Ideas in Fusing Fabric.  I took the photos at home as I had forgotten my camera again last Thursday.

These are pelmet vilene and acrylic felt bonded together with bondaweb, the one on the right has pink painted bondaweb.  The one on the left had gesso lightly painted over the surface.  Both were then patterned with the soldering iron and then stitched into with either black or pink thread.  Might make interesting book covers.