Missed it .......

Debby had been busy making for Valentine's Day but realised she missed the deadline for getting them to one of her outlets.Oh dear.....but we were treated to these beauties instead they might have appeared in the EG. shop last week and we expect they found new homes.

Hearts are lovely all year around.

This piece has been in the making for a little while ,Debby has been deciding how to proceed and thought maybe a 3-D vessel would suit .We agreed and hope she will go on to make more .It was an Ethiopian angel Debby had printed onto fabric and has embellished with stitch.

She had been revisiting Bondaweb and transfer foil to create this little lino printed bird.More work to do to integrate the foil .

She has integrated plastic cheese wrappers into this still life ,colouring with Acrylic paint then burning with a heat gun.

Lots of lovely pastels with stitch and beads .

She has fallen out of love with her birds just now so is working on another of her trademarks .....fish

A different colour palette to normal 

and such a neat back.

Finally this lovely SHELFIE !

Don't show the pins!

Ira is working on a piece inspired by a wall made from Wattle and Daub.

As usual there are multiple layers of fabric painted ,pieced and stitched

As it is in  progress you would expect that there will be much auditioning and repositioning before everything is to Ira's satisfaction.It is why you can see the pins.........she was scandalised to think of leaving them on view! 

Ira doesn't like being without some project so is working towards a solo exhibition in Slimbridge this Spring.One piece is framed and ready to join the others she has in progress. Busy, busy, lady.

The delights of cotton organdie.

Jenn has an exhibition',Telling Tales', with Stitch textile Artists in Ilminster Arts Centre from Monday April 8th -Saturday April 27th.She has been working on her pieces for a while ,the wall hanging is finally done.She has used words and seed pods on a theme of growth.There are also some three dimensional pods which will accompany it.

She loves the properties of cotton organdie and has put it to use in her work for our Bristol Guild exhibition starting on Saturday April 27th.The title for this is Viewpoints and Jenn has taken her ideas from people in coffee shops.Using overheard snippets of conversations and quick drawings from life.So far she has created teacups and saucers machine embroidered with the 'conversations'

Just flowers.

Isn't this glorious? It's even better in life.Viv has been working on it and now it is off to be framed .Viv had been thinking about Messages and had found a whole pile of jeans pockets she had salvaged years ago when using old denim to create a Miao style jacket .She wondered if she might turn them into her piece of work by backing the pockets and inviting visitors to secret messages in them.This theme is certainly provoking some "thinking outside the box"

Carol ,meanwhile ,has begun to work on her piece for Newark.

With the postponement, due to the leak she put it on the back burner.But now we shall be at Newark during June she has to get on and complete it .Her inspiration comes from some textiles kept in a drawer in the Laura Ashley room.She is going to cover some chairs she picked up.

She has been producing some of her delightful cards for the Embroiderers Guild exhibition.These will fly out the door.

They are ideal for putting in a small frame ,a thoughtful and original present for someone special?

Exhibition season.........

Several of our members will be exhibiting this coming weekend with Bristol Embroiderers in their Biennial Exhibition.You may even catch them stewarding on Friday or Saturday or even both!

It is usually a good exhibition in a lovely venue.There is lots to see, opportunities for spending money, and lovely home made cakes should you fancy a cuppa, sit down and chat.

Nothing wasted.

Jenn had spent some time looking at photos she had taken some years ago.She had been out in the local park and surroundings looking for some inspiration.She had been looking down at the pavements and road surfaces, and also at signage.it occurred other that these might yield some ideas for messages.

Using some of the images she played around with taking parts and adding them to postcard size paper.She used a water-based ink pen and watercolour.

The way the ink bled when water was added was pleasing.

She wondered if she could replicate this on some linen, see bottom image.

It worked well enough but more experiments would need to be tried to make sure it would be permanent, maybe using Inktense blocks and paints.It is a tentative start which will need  development and introduction of fabric and stitch.Before that happens there is a matter of an exhibition or two to be prepared.

Reuse ,recycle .

Deryll had been working away at her flower border and had brought along a frame.We were not sure the frame complemented the piece ,as we thought it was too dark and perhaps she could paint it, we'll see.

She had taken one of her pieces apart and was mounting them individually in small white frames.It's amazing how rejuvenated they seemed.

Like Jane she has been turning  ideas over in her head for our exhibitions this year .She is thinking about the damage we are doing to the Earth with fracking and use of plastics etc and how her message might be to leave the Earth alone.