Requirements List for Braids - July Meeting 2024

 

Your Holiday Suitcase - Raffle July Meeting 2024

Finished pieces of Work

 Herons are fairly common around where we live as there are plenty of watery habitats. Janet has finished embroidering her heron in lovely silvery greys and he can be seen out hunting. She has used mainly straight stitch to build up the feathers and body shaping.

She has used colours for the rapier beak that make it look as if the setting sun is reflecting on its beak and chest.

Thank you Janet for embroidering a beautiful heron in its watery habitat.

Christina has completed her splendid bird that is easily recognisable from its spectacular feathered crest. The lapwing, sometimes known as a peewit from its call, has made a wonderful embroidered picture.

The bird has been embroidered mainly with feather stitch and straight stitch and she has captured that colourful patch on its wing beautifully.

Thank you Christina and for reminding me of when I used to see them on the way to school gathered around a spring.

Pauline has finished her bird and as soon as you look at it you think of Christmas. A delightful  robin embroidered with mainly feather stitch.

The orangey/red breast has been achieved by embroidering red feather stitch with orange feather stitch over the top, thus blending the colours together.

Thank you Pauline and I love the way you have built up the feathers by embroidering the stitches in layers.

This is the only bird in my garden that I see more of now than 20 years ago and what a joy it is to see an embroidered close up of a goldfinch by Chris.

The colours have been reproduced beautifully and when a group of them fly into the garden all you see are flashes of red, white and golden yellow.

Chris has used a whole variety of embroidery stitches including chain, laid stitch and feather stitch to reproduce the colourful feathers of a very pretty bird.

Thank you Chris for your beautiful bird.

Applique Chicken - LIzzie Wall June Meeting 2024

 A flock of chicken [See below] arrived at our meeting yesterday accompanied by their creator Lizzie Wall.  They were every colour and pattern imaginable and immediately members were drawn to them,  wondering what colours and patterns they were going to use because Lizzie had been invited to show us how to make one and we were eager to start.

Each of us was given an envelope containing a pattern, bondaweb and some support material.

Lizzie advised us to choose our materials from a wonderful array of patterned fabric supplied by her and then cut the pieces out and apply to the main body in the following order;

1 body

2 breast

3 tail 

4 face, comb, beak, eye, legs

Applying with bondaweb, and lots of "Which way up does this go?" the pieces were stuck to the body.

Slowly chickens began to emerge and the patterned fabrics began to look like feathers.

Once the basic chicken shape had been made, members set about embellishing the tail with shapes cut from brightly coloured fabrics  resembling feather shapes. Colourful, fantastically feathered tails began to emerge.

By the end of the afternoon another flock of chickens had been made and members took them home to finish little bits and pieces and to apply stitch. It was a good fun day and our thanks go to Lizzie for inspiring us and providing us with all the necessary fabrics.

We are looking forward to seeing the finished chickens.