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Cotton material before and after dyeing

The members took with them six metres of cotton material which they cut up into pieces and dyed with Dyrect Dyes in bags in a microwave!

They had a wonderful time watching all the different colours and shades emerge as you can see on the washing line.

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Quilts by Annette Morgan

This year four of our members, Elizabeth,Anne, Jennifer and Sandra, went to Summer School. All four decided to do the dyeing and stitching with Annette Morgan.Annette brought samples including some of her quilts and you can see them in the above photographs.

Posted in Summer School |

Nearly completed Coptic Stitched Books

A selection of our Coptic Stitched books that are just waiting for thair final stitching and then they will be ready to use . A few of the members are going to put a small stitched piece as decoration on the front cover.

A big Thank You to Elizabeth who is a member of our group.

Posted in books |

July Meeting Coptic Stitched Books with Elizabeth Shorrock

Elizabeth's book making classes are always very popular with members and this class was first sheduled for January but had to be postponed. Everyone was therefore looking forward to this day and it did not disappoint with some members working overtime to finish their book before they went home!
The photographs show the members deeply involved in their work and helping each other out under Elizabeth's careful instruction.

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Stump work Pansies

Hilly has just completed and framed her stump work pansies started at the April meeting. The stitching is beautifully neat and even with the pansies looking like the real thing.

Posted in stump work |

Completed embroideries involving wrapping

Both Margaret and Glennis have finished their embroideries started at the June Meeting.

Margaret has used a stained glass window from a little chapel near Sedbergh as her inspiration and framed it with wrapped dowelling. Glennis has chosen peach for her abstract piece decorated with wrapped straws and washers.

They both look very beautiful but very different.

Barrow Library Display

Brenda and Sandra set up the display in Barrow Library this morning. They had to rethink what to display because the cases would only take items less than 14 ins. cubed and light things on the board.
After setting things in the cases they decided it was nice to view the work from different angles and the curvature of the board seemed to link things together.