November Meeting

Two exhibitions on in Scarborough until the 28th November, Picturesque Framers and Gallery on St. John's Road, Falsgrave have Ayton Artists and Friends, Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 4pm with tea and cake available on Saturday along with crafts for sale.  This is a mixed media exhibition with artists and textile artists together.  The other exhibition is at Woodend, next door to the art gallery, where Helen Birmingham has her 1568 Hearts exhibition.  This is a commemoration of the end of WW1 and each of the 1568 hearts represents a day of the war.  All done in individual styles, mostly stitch but inspired by the hearts that the soldiers made while recuperating in hospitals.  Both are worth a visit if you are in the area.

A busy day again on Thursday, this time we were printing.  We had stamps, stencils, gelliplates, paint and markel sticks on the go and most were working up to 2 o'clock getting lots of printed fabric to stitch on.  Here are some of the work that was done.  Not sure who's is who's.

This stamp is a string print taken from an ordnance survey map.

These are the leaves that Lesley had left after using them for printing.  She is hoping to varnish them and use them in something else.

October Meeting

I hadn't realised I'd forgotten to do this blog until I was updating the Guild one and saw that I hadn't updated this one for five weeks.
Well we had a lovely messy day dyeing fabric.  Some members had never done any dyeing before so those that had brought in their dyes and we made up some plastic bags full of fabrics and eventually we all went home with some very bright pieces of fabric for future use.  There was a bit of magenta and some blue left so I took them home, mixed them up and got some lovely raspberry coloured fabric and thread.  I think I will buy some black dye to tone down the colours for the next time I decided to do some dyeing.  It's really easy to do at home when you use the plastic bag method and not really messy if you remember to put your gloves on.

Here are some of the results.  Look at these lovely colours in the cat litter trays (sorry cats).

I kept my wet wipes with the dye mop ups and have got some pretty pieces I can use as backgrounds.

Fabrics all wrapped up ready to be taken home.

Not everyone was dyeing and this lovely crab and cliff face were being stitched.

Next month we are continuing with the messy work and doing some printing.  Useful for the pieces we weren't too keen on from the dyeing.