Happy Birthday

 A big happy birthday to those people who celebrated birthdays in January and February. 

Judy Anderson, Janette Harwood and Andrea Sheddick. 

Last night we celebrated your birthdays with a supper, well really lots of cakes, doughnuts, an

The birthday spread, sorry no balloons!

This is Mary Smith aka "The Bag Lady" no offence meant. She brought along a wide variety of bags for all occasions. All such good ideas and I think I see some workshops coming from some of these. Many of us have made some or all of these but hey.... do we use them!

A very versatile bag.

One of those useful bag that Judy Van Dyck has made multiples of, so useful.

The block holder

Iron Bag

Lamp Bag

Iron and ironing pad bag

Lots of chatting and exchanging of ideas. 

I cant remember the flower but it was a picture taken from Clip Art and enlarged. It was traced on to fabric and painted with Lumiere paints. The tracing was done with a black texta to define the image. Then you stitch over the texta in black thread to define the image. The fabric I used was batik. It was quilted very heavily in the background but two layers of poly batting was used which made it puffy

This was my own design but not difficult. Same technique the double batting making it puffy. Heavy background quilting is needed to keep the puffiness out of the background and highlight the feather

Same technique

Same technique

This was a bit different. It was done on calico and I used all Inktense pencils. It meant I was able to colour the background in various colours and shadings. The quilting was done done in black to highlight the design. 

These belong to me (Sheila). I was asked to bring them along as samples of painted work

These two embroideries are Robyn's work. Those stitches are magic

Welcome Lynne who brought along a bag which she uses and made. It is that very useful bag which we have seen from others. I know Annie C and Gail have made them. The bag is not as easy as it looks so well done.

There were a few people who had been "Out and About" but no pictures. Annie and Rosie had been to a Kilmore Sit and Sew and Robyn had been to to a Gail Pan workshop