Christmas Celebration

There was a great turn out for our Christmas party when embroiderers young and not so young joined together to make Dorset button tree decorations, thanks to Helen for supplying some fantastic buttons and threads and showing us how it is done.

Not only did Aimee make her beautiful decoration with the minimum of help she also helped me with mine and won the raffle!  Well done!

Young Embroiderers

This work is due to be displayed at the Laxey Woollen Mills shortly.  The 'cloud' background was made using a peg loom and the balloons were added at the following workshop, they were made with scraps of material which were then embellished creating these wonderful colourful pieces.

Sari Ribon Bags

Here are some more examples of  beautiful bags that were made out of sari ribbons following the September workshop.

Completed Work

Jean has completed her 'pochette' from the September workshop - isn't it beautiful? 

Has anyone else got some photographs of completed works from a workshop to share?

October Workshop

Linda Donald generously shared her skills in millinery techniques resulting in these fantastic fascinators.

September Workshop

The September workshop was led by textile artist Christine Marshall and a good start was made on making a bag from sari ribbons.  Christine was full of enthusiasm and ideas on how to create imaginative and decorative bags and brought lots of examples of her work to show the members.
Here are some examples of 'work in progress'

Charity Day

Our Charity Day this year was in aid of the Organ Donation Memorial Garden and we stitched felt hearts to donate to friends and family as well as working on personal projects.  The sum of £250 was raised, a massive thank you to everyone who contributed