Embellishments

Fabulous day led by Kath looking at techniques for making tassels, buttons, beads and more. Here are a few of the pieces made.

Monday - embellishment exploration day

Requirements list for Beads, tassels, cords, braids and ribbons Day

Please bring any or all of these depending on what you have to hand.

Bondaweb 

 Small beads 

Viscose embroidery threads, including variegated if you have any Thicker threads such as perle /wools

  Medium weight card and scalpel 

Sewing machine and feet including free machine embroidery foot 

Knitting needle or bodkin 

Glue stick 

Thin wire, if you have any 

Irons and extension leads, parchment paper or Teflon sheet 

Usual sewing kit

if you would rather continue with a project of your own, do bring that instead

There will also be an opportunity to add further layers to your Soy Wax pieces or start one if you missed out last time.

Soy wax pt. 2

One of our members has been continuing to layers up Soy Wax designs. Here is what has been achieved.

Soy Wax pieces

Olive and Ann led us through the Soy Wax process. Here are three finished sets of pieces:

By Kath

By Ann B

By Jill

Hope everyone will bring their completed pieces to the next meeting.

April meeting

Monday 14th April
This meeting will now be a bring your own work session. Our Soy Wax experimental workshop will be rearranged for a later date.

June Meeting

Our June meeting will be a making day towards the Quilters Guild Tombola at Festival of Quilts. The theme this year is HEARTS.
This can be anything with a heart on it it, using fabrics with printed hearts or heart shaped items.
Bring ideas, patterns, fabrics and trimmings plus your sewing kit.

March meeting

Our thanks to Debbie and Jill for a really good day on Monday. We were introduced to a design exercise devised by Jenni Dobson titled "Fifty Shades of Grey".

Armed with a selection of grey fabrics we each started with a rectangle of grey fabric and worked in groups of three or four.

Through four rounds of adding a shape and making a cut through all the fabrics we ended up creating these.

Four very different effects.

Our conclusions were that one needed to add larger shapes at the start; include multiple elements and more than one cut at some point.