Once again it was time for our mixed media class. Although a small group this time, we had a lovely afternoon and made some very varied canvas. My apologies to Judi, I have lost the photo I took of your beautiful fushcia & magenta piece. Here are the others though...
As always an interesting mix of ideas using similar materials.
That was the basis of our Easter Wreath workshop today. The willow wreaths were made for us by Debbie Fowler one of our K&N members.
First we stamped tissue paper with text image in a choice of colours, decopatched some polystyrene eggs with the tissue and that was the starting point for our beautiful wreaths. Take at look at how they turned out ..............
This Is Emily's very pretty purple & green wreath. Emily struggles with 'pretty' but I think we convinced her she'd done a good job!
Clare's wreath just seems to shout 'Spring is here', with it's fresh, clean colours.
Sylvia sats quietly working away, obviously knowing exactly how she wanted her bright and very pretty wreath to turn out.
Apple blossom and eggs, would be the title I'd give this one Eileen made. A lovely combination, which her sister is going to be the recipient of, lucky lady.
I'm rather fond of this combination of colours too, which Sally rather cleverly put together.
They were all really lovely and I'd happy have hung any in my house. Sadly they all took them home!
You may remember from our previous Hoop 3 session, that Emily was working on a birds nest design. Well, here is the finished piece...
Quite lovely I'm sure you'll agree.
Over the years we all hoard samples of fabric, seemingly too small to be of any real use. Well, not to us they aren't! We made some lovely cushions this afternoon, which will have pride of place on the sofa tonight.
Molly chose a bold leaf design in a beautiful blue.
Vanessa Arbuthnott fabric is always a polular choice.
These pretty birds are from her latest Scandinavian inspired range.
A a pretty piece of French toile, made by Eileen, depicting a lady feeding chicken. Perfect for its farmhouse destination.
Today our workshop was another decopatch session, but this time in 3D. We tackled these Wading birds.
The hardest part is choosing the papers,
but once that decision is made its pretty plain sailing.
Jenny's bird looked great in this paper, which had a real feathery look to it.
Eileen opted for the same paper, but with a different look for the legs.
Sally's bird was definitely an exotic species and looked resplendent in red.
Pat & I made the good time girls!
As ever, an afternoon of rippin 'n sticking was bliss!
One of the best ways to spend an afternoon on a wet and windy day is to pile a whole load of paints, stamps, inks, papers, textiles etc onto a table, give everyone and blank canvas, and say go!
So, that is pretty much what we did today as we set about dabbling with mixed media.
We had no set rules, and apart from an acrylic painted base, there were no similarities in what was produced.
Pat made a jungle scene with a beastie hidden within.
Sylvia's lovely textured piece.
Trish used a bit of map we had, of her old stopping ground, for a nostalgic piece.
Em had a certain person in mind when she made this pretty canvas. Best I don't say any more!
Eileen's combination of old and new, worked really well.
All worthy of a place on the wall.
It was trees, trees and more trees today, as we put together strings of Christmas Tree Forest Bunting.
Well, these trees definitely nurtured their decorations along with their pine needles. I've never seen so much bling in one afternoon!
Operation bling under way.
One set nearly ready for stringing.
The idea was to use 8 different shades of green for the trees.
but some ladies felt they needed a traditional splash of red!
I think it worked well though.
And as we don't have another workshop before Christmas, I may not have cause to blog again, so as this little tree so beautifully says, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and thank you for reading. x
Oh, we did have a lovely day on Saturday, making our rustic angels. As the afternoon wore on we laughed more and more as some of our angels began to look a little worse for wear. We gave them names and I couldn't possibly tell you what we thought they might have been up to! But it was a great way to spend a cold pre Christmas Saturday. Here's what we made..............
Sun tanned angels. Or did they work for Boots??
Serene angels.
More angels worthy of a place in heaven.
Night on the town angels!
Christmas party angels.
And then today, we had a play with stamps and inks and came up with some tags and cards ready for the wrapping marathon which will be coming soon.
Glossy Accents and glitter were the order of the day.
A hint of embossed snow made all the difference here.
Sue now has a complete set of 12 of these pretty village scene cards. Not bad for a Sunday morning's work.
This year's Fabric Christmas Wreaths workshop proved to be just as popular as last, and the results just as stunning. Spanning two days, we managed to make a whole gallery of Christmassy, frosty loveliness to adorn many a home this festive season.
Lets take a look.............
Purple & gold with a hint of turquoise, was a wow! combination.
Below, traditional red, green and white can look so different depending on the pattern of the fabric and the density to which its packed.
This one used vintage curtain fabric from her daughters bedroom, very densly packed. Infact the lady could still be working on it now! What an heirloom when it's finished though.
More traditional colours used to great effect, each with it's own special 'something', whether that's a hint of frost, snow, or simply 'freshness'.
Claire's was a gorgeous combination, which could be left up all year.
This selection has a real wintery feel. They were all truly beautiful.
Well, sometimes we are, aren't we? But not yesterday, we sat down, chilled out and made a ragged runner instead.
3 fat quaters were chosen, each cut into 4, and then 6 pieces of batting for the middle.
Batting sandwiched between 2 strips, and sewn straight down the centre.
Making sure the right (raggy side) was facing, it was time to sew the strips together.
Sue's rather beautiful Christmas combination is well on the way to being finished.
Eileen's rich colour comination is ready for snipping now.
Louise is ahead of us, snip, snip, snipping every seem, every 1/4 inch. NOW they understood why we weren't doing a double bed throw today!
All snipped and ready to throw in the washing machine and tumble drier.
Ready for that fabulous scruffy, roughy edge to appear.
Saturday just wouldn't be Saturday without a workshop would it? So the morning began with Em popping in to cut her owl fabric out and then she had to take it home to finish off, as she was busy in the afternoon.
So, after lunch five more ladies came along and we began to make owls of their own.
Choosing fabric for features and buttons for eyes was the best part.
By tea time we had a full parliament.
Some big wise old owls
And some Little owls.
And then, just in time, Ems owl flew in too.
Some of them are enjoying the sunshine here this morning!
Haven't we had some wonderful sunsets this past week?
I took this one from the kitchen window on Friday evening. Lovely.
An inspirational gift & craft shop in a pretty market town.
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