June Meeting

Another good day with eighteen out of twenty members present and lots of work being done.  Most people were just working on their Warriors pieces or just getting on with things they needed to finish.  Here are some of the projects under way.

This is a piece Ann was doing.  It is black velvet (an old pair of trousers) with a design stamped on in gold.  She is embellishing it with chiffon and beads.

Christina is continuing her norman theme with the shields on fabric and net.

Christine is stitching this wonderful blackwork piece, based on a picture she saw in a book.

Jenny has been using her jellyplate to produce this lovely fabric and then using a stamp and stitch to work into it.

Colleen has been having fun making these face cupcakes in felt.

This was another piece Jenny was doing, painting a piece of tyvek and scrim that she produced last month.

May Meeting

I can't believe it is now over two weeks since our meeting and I haven't got the blog done yet.  Time has run away with me what with the bank holiday and everything else.

A few of us joined the Stitching in the Dales workshops which are run each year by the Grassington Branch of the Embroiderers' Guild.  We had an excellent time with Lynda Monk, very hectic but very inspiring.  For photographs of the work done see the Ryedale branch blog on ryedaleg.blogspot.com.  We had a small demonstration running of one of the techniques that Lynda showed us and several people had a go.  Roma was busy demonstrating felt making to Ann who had never done it before.  Moira was making machine cords and Ann also had her sewing machine out finishing off samples from the Lynda Monk workshop.

This is one of Colleen's pieces that I think she calls 'Yorkshire Nuggits'.  The hand is also Colleen's work, as she says 'You can design with anything'.

Here was Ann's work being arranged as samples.

Marilyn was working with buttons and found objects in this piece.

Jackie was trying out one of Lynda's techniques to make snowflakes.