It was time to dig out much loved, but worn out jumpers and T shirts on Saturday and turn them into softies to love forever.
First of all we cut out the shapes, pinned and sewed.
Then we stuffed.
Added ears and facial features.
Then we got ready to meet our new friend. The cashmere rabbit. She was soooo soft.
Rose bud the retired pj's rabbit with donated cashmere bits to her ears.
And Issac's new friend made from one of his favourite jumpers. Hope he likes his new pal just as much?!
Last week I was on the sunny south coast recharging my batteries. The girls of knit & natter were not idle though. Oh no, far from it, they were exhibiting their finest selection of craftsmanship at the Chagford show. It was a clean sweep for the girls in the 'any other soft craft section', which allowed the hookers to show off their hooky talents to an appreciative judge. They also took various other prizes across the knitting and hard craft section, exhibiting work done at knit & natter and our various workshops. Well done girls.
There's Emily's Sea anemone blanket (my name for it because it's like looking into a rock pool with its beautiful colours and wavy edges!) on the left taking 2nd,
Chrissie's Mexican wave blanket, in all its rich jewelled tones, in the middle with 1st prize,
Sue R's beautiful felted bag at the back with Highly commended and Sue T's very pretty hexagon blanket on the right which took 3rd prize. Marvellous.
Also, just before I was away, one of our members, the gorgeous Beverley had a serious operation and over the past couple of weeks many of us have been making squares for her recovery blanket. I'm delighted to report she is home now and doing splendidly getting around on her very jazzy purple crutches. So, early on Wednesday morning a bunch of us crawled bleary eyed into the shop and sewed all the squares together so that we could deliver the blanket to her yesterday.
We all hope that snuggling down underneath its soft cotton loveliness will speed up her recovery.
Today we held a workshop which saw us having a tentative go at free motion embroidery.
Feed dogs down, hoops in place it was time to get the feel of free motion sewing.
Merly soon picked it up.
Sue began adding fabric to hers.
Carefully planned out pictures began to emerge too.
Eileen went for a very attractive abstract approach.
Meryly made an excellent job of her floral with variegated threads.
Despite herself Claire was forced to admit she'd enjoyed making something 'girly'!
Top marks were awarded to Deb who mastered the art of writing.......
far better than I did!
We liked machine embroidery and will certainly be doing more.
Begin by joining all the jelly roll pieces together, without sorting through them. Work straight from the top of the pile. If you chain pieced them all, snip all the threads.
This will make one very long strip of fabric. Then find both ends.
Being careful not to twist the huge strip of fabric. Easier said than done!
Put the 2 ends right side together and sew all the way down the strip.
When you get to the bottom, cut it open and repeat the process.
Until the quilt top is made. Speedy sewer of the day went to Emily, who finished first.
Then Sue's was complete.
Closely followed by Claire.
As far as we know Eileen is still in there working on hers! It'll be lovely when it's done though.
Just off to give her breakfast.
An inspirational gift & craft shop in a pretty market town.
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