October 5th 2022

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Great afternoon making small silk painted cards

  • Heart Shape silk card
  • Frames at the ready
  • Abstract design
  • The painting table at the ready
  • Applying the Gutta
  • Gutta at the ready
  • Drying with care
  • All set up for a great fun time
  • Applying the silk paint
  • All choosing something different
  • Good idea to use a tray
  • The concentration
  • Making progress
  • Still more paint to add
  • The creative table
  • Finished heart card
  • Finished square card

September 3rd 2022 1st meeting of our 2022/2023 year.

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  • Poppies, made of crochet, recycled plastic or felt.
  • Learning to make a crochet poppy.
  • Happily constructing poppies
  • It’s really good fun
  • Template, and felt ready to put together
  • In progress
  • The folding process
  • All coloured coordinated
  • Having fun with the process
  • All very busy
  • Everyone enjoying themselves
  • The other half of the room enjoying themselves
  • Great turn out for our first meeting of our new year.
  • Pieces required for poppy
  • Poppy using recycled plastic bags
  • Three poppies that you could make
  • Completed poppy
  • Completed Poppy
  • Completed poppy
  • Completed poppy
  • Completed poppy
  • Completed poppy

June 4th 2022

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Another great afternoon in June making mini book covers using the previous months marbled fabric. This was our last meeting until we resume again after the summer in September.

  • Sample of cover
  • Cover in landscape
  • Stitched embellishment
  • An assortment of little books
  • Hand stitching in progress
  • Ready for the stitches
  • Designing with beads
  • About to start
  • Using a variety of threads
  • Designing
  • Creating with stitch and beads
  • Finished book cover
  • Cover in progress
  • Finished marbled cover for mini book
  • Finishing touches
  • Finished mini book

May 7th 2022

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Great afternoon marbling using shaving foam.

  • The starting process
  • Applying ink to foam
  • Smoothing foam ready for ink
  • Smoothing the foam again
  • Dragging through ink for design
  • Ready to apply ink
  • Two tone print
  • Print design
  • Ink applied to foam
  • Print taken on shot silk
  • Print taken as foam is scraped
  • Foam pattern
  • Many colours
  • Pattern on foam
  • Print on fabric
  • Two tone print on fabric
  • Lovely excess foam pattern
  • Marbled pattern on foam
  • Print on cotton
  • Design on foam

April 2nd 2022

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Great afternoon creating knitted fragments.

  • In the Recreational hall
  • Sample
  • Using various colours
  • Learning the technique
  • Going in all directions
  • Relaxing hobby
  • Going round and round
  • Changing colours
  • Changing directions
  • Going in all directions
  • Matching colours
  • Having fun
  • Long threads, short threads
  • Fluffy yarn, bobbly yarn
  • Everyone relaxing
  • Various yarns used
  • Experimenting with yarns
  • Working quickly
  • Mixing knitting with crochet
  • Yarns galore
  • Completed fragments made into a bag
  • Sample
  • Sample in progress
  • Lumpy textureColours of the sea
  • Colours of the sea
  • Blending colours

March 5th 2022

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  • Demo
  • Wools you can use
  • Sample of weaving
  • Sample
  • Demo
  • Sample
  • Explaining the frame
  • Sample with gold thread
  • Sample with fine cane woven in
  • Sample finished purse
  • Demo re weaving
  • Sample weaving techniques
  • Tapestry weaving techniques
  • Sample of sizes
  • Starting the weaving card
  • Sample of weaving techniques
  • layering with wools
  • Sample incorporating angles
  • Variety of wools
  • Thick and thin
  • Weaving in and out
  • Two over and under instead
  • Incorporating thicker wools
  • Adding merino wool stripSample bag
  • Sample bag
  • Really 3D wool
  • Layering colours
  • Weaving in blocks of colour
  • Merino non spun wool
  • Featuring the warp
  • Weaving at angles
  • Concentrating
  • Relaxing afternoon
  • Colour coordinated
  • Weaving with long needle
  • Sample using newspaper and video tape in the centre
  • Finished members little bag

February 5th 2022

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Felting bowls around an orange.

  • Oranges and nets at the ready
  • More colours of wool
  • Very busy creating
  • Merina wool used to make bowls
  • Demo
  • Choosing their colours
  • Looking at some made earlier
  • Putting all fibres into a net
  • Felting in progress
  • During the process
  • Spacious room

December 4th 2021

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Paper wreath making, Miniature embroideries, Willow wreath ideas

  • Showing the project finished
  • Finished version
  • Choosing what to do
  • Explaining about the stitching project
  • Samples of stitches
  • Concentrating
  • Hard at work
  • Well spaced
  • Demo to help next stage
  • Ready for assembly
  • Before assembly
  • Layering up
  • Wreath with lights!
  • Construction of paper wreath
  • Adding colour
  • Adding colour
  • Few bits of colour

November 6th 2021

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  • Demo of mini bag making
  • Fabric being used for bags
  • Threads, fabric, zips
  • Keeping a distance
  • Hand sewing a mini book cover
  • In action
  • Pressing the fabric
  • Choosing part of fabric to use
  • Zips of varying colours
  • Printed fabric
  • Made into bag
  • Zipped bagZipped bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag
  • Zipped Bag