July meeting - Members' show and tell

At our last meeting of the year all members were asked to bring along a piece of work and talk about it.  As usual we had a wonderful selection of embroidery and textile art and some of the work is shown below.

At the top is Joy Newington's work from the fibre fusion workshop, with further embellishment, and at the bottom left is Mavis Lee's work, from the same workshop, beautifully presented in a glass frame.  On the right is Anne Shaw's intriguing work on the theme of 'Planets':-

On the left this grid shows Sheila Conchie's casket (I think we should ask her to do a workshop, don't you?) which she made at Summer School.  On the right is Valerie Grant's beautifully embroidered stole worked in Pearsall's silks and currently used as a communion stole.  Below is a close-up showing the detail of the embroidery:-

Here is a photo showing Allison James' landscapes: layered fabric embellished with hand and machine stitch.  Beautiful colours.  And below is Judi Brown's hand dyed silk clutch bag with hand and machine stitching:-

This is Nikki Parmenter's textile work based on a theme of small worlds - you could spend an hour looking at it and still find something new!

Chris Harris's work is based on a photograph taken in the garden, using a Japanese method known as Momigami - or kneaded paper.  The technique is based on crumpling paper by hand and then stitch is added:-

Pat Thomas brought along a hand-made cushion on which she has stitched some of the dozens? hundreds? of small triangles which she made by hand:-

Ann worked this hand felted landscape, based on a photograph of hills in Scotland, whilst she was at North West Region summer school:-

And Belinda completed the display of work to be proud of, and showed her beautifully decorated book cover:-

As always, this show and tell meeting was a great success and we were all able to appreciate each others' work.  Aren't we a talented bunch?!