It's down !

We met on Tuesday after taking down Echoes on Sunday.We agreed that the space was amazing and really showed the work to its best.We had over 200 visitors while it was open,people stayed sometimes for a very long time poring over the work.We had great feedback about the exhibits,so although it was a lot of work for a relatively short space of time it was appreciated by the audience.It was lovely to see students from Sidcot taking an interest and sharing in the expertise on offer by members.

   Despite being caught up in the exhibition members brought along work to the meeting they had been developing.Deryll treated us to some delicious gooey home made chocolate cake as it was her birthday.We said we should have provided cake for her!

We start with her piece,based on Cumbrian landscape and using some of her naturally dyed fabrics.She uses a couronne stick to make the buttonhole rings.It was a dark rainy day so the photos haven't shown it to its best.

It's up!

We started on Thursday and continued into Friday to get the exhibition up and working to showcase everyone's talent. It looked like this

And we left on Thursday wondering how we would get it all to work together

But we gradually made sense of what would go where and now it looks like this.

Set on three floors there is lots to see.Here is a taster.

You'll have to be quick as it is only on for a short time.

 

We have a selection of items in the shop to give as gifts or treat yourself,fabrics and threads to inspire and original greetings cards.

All this and you can even have a sit down with a hot drink and a choice of home made cake.

We hope you can come along,we'd love to see you.

New group.

Liz is exhibiting with this new group but be quick it's not on for long.

Rocks and rivers

Sally has completed her river journey book and is toying with starting a new one.

We suggested that as she lives very close to a river (Avon),she might consider a journey along it ! It would certainly be different than her usual river journeys.

Ira meanwhile has been continuing with her rocks,

if laid among mosses and lichens this piece could be mistaken for the real thing.

She also showed this,one of her painted and burned fabrics she has started to embellish with additions of beads and stitch.

Fabrics fun.

Liz has been very productive recently producing lots of interesting fabrics.She spent a few days at the Festival of Quilts in August doing a workshop with Leslie Morgan.These are her results.

Aren't they interesting?They were a mixture of thermofax  printing and applying paint with a credit card.

She will have lots to play with, you'll have fun spotting where she uses it!

She has continued to Eco- dye with leaves etc. from her garden.This time she trapped them between Khadi paper sheets,wrapped them in cardboard and string,then steamed for an hour.

The images are so clear,and such beautiful colours,

These little zig zag books are lovely too.

Not content with all of this fabric creation she chose one of her husband's photographs of trees,manipulated in a computer program,then sent it off to Spoonflower.

She has yards of this evocative fabric and plans already for its use.Perhaps you'll see it at Nature In Art next Easter.

Ready

Deryll brought another of her finished pieces,framed and ready for Echoes.

It's a beautifully worked Tulip.

Jenn had gone away from last meeting and printed the fabric with her hand made blocks,added some wire ammonites and loosely assembled the layers.Finally it is fit for purpose!

Pathways

Another diary date for you

            Pathways. 

      South West Textile Group

     29th Sept-25th October

      Ilminster Meeting House

Marilyn and Liz will be taking part.