March Meeting

Fantastic workshop today making paper with Niki Hampson of Pulpitations.  Everybody was busy all day and we all collapsed in our chairs at about 2.30 in the afternoon absolutely shattered.  Lots of lovely paper made as you can see below.  The coloured pieces are paper pulp and the white is cotton rag.  Hope to see some interesting things made with all this paper at next months meeting.

Don't know who's is who's but they all look great.

February Meeting

We had another busy day with everyone doing their own thing this month.  Several members had to leave early because it is half term but they still managed to get things done.  Moira, Liz and Colleen got together and did some printing and Janet did some too.  Roma was felting and Maureen was painting up some more papers.
We first started meeting on the 21st February 2011 so today was really our 4th birthday and I forgot!
Next month we are having a paper making day with Niki Hampson and most of us will be there so we are looking forward to that.
Here are some photographs of the papers we made last month and what people have done with them.

Liz has used her pages to make a 'Warriors' workbook.

This was also Liz's work.

Colleen had made her paper into a little booklet about the haberdashery shop her mother ran many years ago.

Colleen had aquired a large bag of printing stamps and here whe was trying some of them out.

Jackie was quilting another panel to go with these three.

Ann has been experimenting using some information she found in a book by Maggie Grey.  This piece was beautiful and the photo doesn't do it justice.  This skeleton leaf was incorporated into a fabric and the surface had foil and beads on it.

This is Colleen's skirt made from her sons old ties.

I think this is Maureen's work.  This print she has is really lovely.

Photo's at Last

I have managed to upload the photographs by using Google Chrome as my browser.  It's a bit slower to get into it but once there the pictures upload much quicker and I can upload all of them at once then pick them out as I want them.  Obviously, as Blogger is run by Google they want you to use there other services.

So here are the pictures of some of the papers as they were drying.  I have seen some of them since and they are wonderful, some really lovely colours.

 

Below are some shapes the Christina found in a shop somewhere. I can't remember what she said they were but I don't think they were intended to be stamps but they certainly make lovely ones.

Here are some of Christina's 'Warriors'.  She is making Norman Skittles!  They look really good and I can't wait to see the finished set.

January 2015

Nearly everyone was back after the Christmas festivities and a number were ready to go colouring paper.  We used the technique I learnt with Frances Pickering, tearing each page around the previous ones to get a good fit in a book, then dipping the paper in water to wet it and then adding colour.  If you stack the pages diagonally across each other you get some interesting marks across each page.  You can add salt and layer cling film between pages for more interesting results.

I was hoping to show you some of the papers that we produced but blogger won't download my photographs, keeps saying that it cannot connect to the server.  I am trying to sort it out but it is difficult to contact them.

December Meeting

A suprising amount of work was done today considering we finished at lunchtime to go for our Christmas meal.  Another successful trip to Betton Farm which provide a really excellent lunch as well as giving work to people with learning difficulties.

Marilyn was working with turquoise fabric and threads to produce this intriguing piece of work.  Canb't wait to see the finished piece.

Liz was trying out the gelli plate she bought at the Knitting and Stitching show.  Some of these prints were excellent.

This was bubble wrap that Liz had used to print.  You can see the prints that this made on the picture above.

A good end to the year.  We start January with some paper colouring.  See you all then, have a lovely Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

December morning group

Not very many of us today but we all managed to get some work done.  Roma and I were felting and the village hall tables are great for that, they are pretty solid and quite long for doing big pieces.

This is Roma's piece which is planned as part of a bigger textile.

I was doing a cobweb felt scarf as a christmas present.  It still had some work to do on it at this point but I was reasonably pleased with it although one or two of the holes are a bit on the big side.

Ann was working with some stamps she had made from funky foam based on designs on a bronze statue she had photographed.  She was also having a play with markel sticks to make the lovely wavy patterns.

This photograph hasn't come out so well but Maureen has taken a print from a wooden block and turned it into this lovely piece of goldwork.  You can see the original block print in the photographs from the September meeting.

We could do with a few more at our morning sessions and it would be a shame to loose them as those that do come find they get quite a lot done. 

November meeting

Another busy day.  Some people remembered to bring in their work from the worshop earlier in the month and some were carrying on from there doing more pieces of metal work.    A few people were working together making beads from a variety of textiles.   Various pieces of 'Warrior' work are coming along and we spent some time sorting out Christmas lunch, changing cards in the postcard challenge and arranging the date for our exhibition in 2015.  It will be the 24th and 25th of October so get that date in your diaries.  We will move our meeting day forward to the 22nd and then we can follow that by setting up on the 23rd.
Here is some of the work that has been created by the members.

Below are some of the beads that were created on Thursday.