Our ‘Show and Tell’ for September was boosted by the return of members who had tripped off north for the winter. Pauleen has been very busy, while off sunning herself, creating beautiful books and bags: One of the books: The beautiful bag, front: and back: Jill was not idle and finished off her creative beading [...]
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Books, Chooks, Bags and Beads
Posted in Bags, Beading, Bookmaking, Lutradur on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Show and Tell
Posted in Bookmaking, Dyeing, Embroiderer's guild, Exhibitions, Machine Embroidery, Workshops on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At our April and May meetings there was quite a bit of Show and Tell from the members. It is great to get inspiration from other members in this way and also to get positive feedback on our pieces. In April Jacqui had done some wonderful cloth dyeing based on the February swing tag technique [...]
Concluding 2009
Posted in Bookmaking on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most of our techniques for 2009 were taken from Beryl Taylor’s excellent book “Mixed Media Explorations” which many of our members had purchased. May- Bleaching- velvet & Paper June- Shiva Paintstiks & Stitching on cold/hot water dissolvable July- Paper clay & Water soluble Paper August- Embedding & Sandwiching September- Working on Pellon & Etching into velvet October- UTEE stamps & Xpandaprint on rag/watercolour paper November- Tyvek paper & Stitching [...]
