Buttontastic

 This is Celia's Button piece. Isn't it beautiful? It is using up buttons from her button box and then embroidering around them and then framing it in an embroidery hoop.

 This is Louise's dawn harbour piece with shiny materials and a piece of voile sewn over it to sandwich it in. You have to have use imagination to see the harbour.

 Valerie has been making a quilt as a gift and the recipient loves horses.

 Dorothy about to get messy. She was making a marrow as a prop for a church play.

 Ella has been making baby booties.

Joan has a quilt in some really bonny strong colours.

Colours and Fleece

Ella is on the floor piecing together a quilt with help from Dorothy, Ann and Catherine. Its a skill to get the colours balanced in the pattern and we often ask each other for advice.

Catherine had some squares that she had sewn together from scraps she had. It is very effective and a great idea for using up the wee bits of materials we gather from quilting

 Ella made this bag and was instantly asked to hold a workshop on it.

 Catherine is wet felting a piece of sheep fleece. She is agitating layers of fleece with soap and hot water until the piece binds together and does not pull apart when teased.

This might look a mess but its perfectly organised chaos.  Shirley's pictish piece is in the foreground. Joan is continuing on a Japanese design panel and Ann is sewing a landscape piece.

Ice Ice Lady

We got down and messy recently doing some dyeing using Ice.  We had ordered some pre treated material which meant we didn't have to soak it in soda ash or add any salt after. Although there was a fair bit of debate about this and we learned that we should do some preparation by taking the instructions with us.

We had to wet it first then put a layer in a long deep container (such as a bucket or a vase) and then add some ice and then some dye, then layer it up, material, ice, dye etc until we ran out of material. It has a lovely delicate effect when dried.

 

Catherine was trying scrunching the material up before adding the dye.

Valerie was painting directly onto her material and using stencils of stars to get a night sky effect.