June meeting - Lynda Kinnard of Rebellious Rags

Lynda came to speak to us at this week's meeting and brought along a huge amount of her work for us to admire, and to learn from.  She loves to upcycle fabrics and admitted to regularly visiting charity shops searching for old clothes in order to replenish her stash (who doesn't?).

Lynda's work covers a number of different techniques including pegloom and stick weaving, rag rug making ('hooking' and 'proddy').  She also told us about her love of free-machine embroidery and showed how she has used it to embellish some of the work she has created:-

Above is the cover for Lynda's iPad - what a great idea!  I am now planning to stitch a new cover for my Kindle.

Here is one of Lynda's beautiful bags worked in both hooking and proddy rag rug techniques:-

and another, woven, bag worked in a striking colour combination:-

This is a selection of the tools used by Lynda to create her artworks - even the tools are beautiful:-

We all enjoyed a very interesting talk, looked at a huge amount of beautiful work and were treated to a short demonstration of rag rug weaving - a great afternoon!