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Show and Tell 13 July 2020

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Guild members are continuing to produce a huge variety of work. It’s nice to see the progress being made on items, whether slowly or very fast! Although there are no dog photos this week, who knows what the future may bring?

Alison A has been inspired by a plant she has seen growing on local Mount Majura
Thanks to Anne D for sharing an amazing trick that she picked up on an embroidery cruise. Placing a shower cap over her embroidery hoop keeps everything clean and safe during transport. Anne’s trapunto piece, hiding
underneath the shower cap is also coming along nicely.
Catherine M is working on some lovely small bullion rose motifs
Cathy M continues to work on her crewel work.
Elvi McC has had framed this beautiful piece as a gift for her sister. You can’t tell so well in the photo, but the frame really highlights the gold in the embroidery.
Fran N is continuing to do pieces for her online design course. The first one is ‘Manmade’, and Fran’s second design piece of leaves is ‘Natural’.
As if Fran didn’t have enough work on the go, this work in progress is a reverse applique pond.
Gail H has now finished off some hand towels for the Guild gift shop.
Gloria S is working on some Aztec inspired embroideries.
Jan H is working through some designs of Embroideries from the Past. She intends for these to be available as a resource from our Guild library when they are done.
Kathy P is continuing her cross stitches of window views.
Liz C is continuing work on this very cute caravan.
Lynden Y is continuing her work on her very first stumpwork piece. Lots of learning involved, but it is coming along nicely. The scary cutting is to come.
Pat B has finished her inchies, and has also finished her tweed project from Creative Group.
Prue D has started work on a canvaswork glasses case
Sarah K took advantage of puppy nap time to cut out her hardanger. Her husband says she took a perfectly good piece of material and cut it to pieces! Sarah says now she just has to remember how to do the needle weaving!
Tracey K has produced a very hungry caterpillar for a baby shower that her daughter is attending. That is a lot of bullions, but very effective.
Trish P is almost finished each of the motifs and ready to stitch the lines between.

Show and Tell 6 July 2020

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Members are continuing to enjoy being able to gather in the Real World. Although this week we are continuing the theme of cute pet photos, someone is in the bad books!

Anne D has finished making up a Sashiko quilt. It is called ‘Perseverance’ as there were many challenges that she needed to overcome to get to this amazing result.
Alison A made amazing progress with this lovely lighthouse cross stitch made for
her son. There is a lot of detail in it and being locked down allowed her to really crack on
with it.
Monica A has put aside the work that she was doing and picked up again her lovely
Autumn leaves
Yvonne K is making great progress on her cutwork piece from Christine Bishop’s class, with it all stitched together.
Sarah K got to pick up from the framers some blackwork that her mum, Claire did. It is a lovely souvenir from her trip to London with the pattern purchased while visiting the Royal School of Needlework.
Remember Clive, Sarah K’s newest doggie addition to the family? Well, Clive, although still loved, is in disgrace after destroying Sarah’s Challenge piece from the Guild’s 2018 Exhibition!
… and here is Sarah’s Altoid Tin Challenge piece, pre-Clive’s “help”.
This is why Sarah didn’t do any sewing over the weekend. With her mum visiting with her Cocker Spaniel Paris, Sarah’s lap and hands were rather full! (Editor’s note: clearly Clive is not in THAT much disgrace!)

Show and Tell 29 June 2020

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Here are our latest photos, and it seems that we may have started a trend in photos of cute pets assisting (or not, as the case may be) with stitching, at least let’s hope so!

Patricia P is working on a lovely fine embroidery kit from Colleen Goy
Cathy M has finished her chicken scratch piece from the internal Guild class earlier this year
Cathy M is now also working on her crewel work piece from a class with Anna Scott
Patricia P is also working on her one from the same Anna Scott class.
Cecelia S is sewing together some squares that had been donated to make a rug.
Liz C had asked a few weeks back for suggestions of a caravan embroidery pattern for her to make for a friend. Carmen Z came to the rescue and Liz has started work on the perfect design, from Katherine Popovski.
Catherine M has just started her first piece of ribbon embroidery purchased from the recycle
table.
Elvi McC is working on her piece from the Delma Moore honeyeater class.
Kathy P is working on a lovely set of cross stitch window views that were purchased from
the recycle table.
Pat B was working on her tweed piece, another project from the Creative Group.
Janet P is finishing a lovely needle case
Jillian B has been performing doggy day care duties for a new Toy Cavoodle belonging to her daughter’s family. Jillian decided to weigh him in the Thermomix, and we assume he was removed before it was time to cook dinner! That’s surely an acceptable reason for not showing any stitching.
Sarah K has been able to get to some surface stitching, ably assisted by furry friends Chloe and Clive.

Show and Tell 22 June 2020

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Apart from the busy behind the scenes work going on in the Guild Library and Recycle Room, members have been working on all types of projects. If you’re wondering why there’s a non-craft photo, I couldn’t resist because it’s the best reason for not stitching that I’ve heard in a while! (Apologies to members if I’ve mixed anything up – I seem to have had a few “technical difficulties” in sorting photos!)

This cutwork bag from Christine Bishop’s class has progressed to the assembly, but sadly Cathy M forgot to bring her thread to the guild. It’s always tricky to remember to bring everything with you, but maybe we are a bit out of the habit?
Look at the progress that Anne D has made with her cross-stitch since last time!
Anne D mentioned previously buying a Trapunto kit from a craft fair, and here it is!
Elvi McC is putting finishing touches to a cross stitch advent calendar that she has dug out of her stash.
The Creative Group had a project entitled “Inchies”, and here is Fran N’s interpretation
Jasmine H was working on a beautiful smocked dress
Leonie H is doing a series of embroidered blocks for a quilt.
Liz C has done this very cute cross stitch which… … fits very nicely into this printed scene on a card for a friend
Monica A has been busy creating machine embroidered bags with different designs from Urban Thread Designs. We’re told to expect some to appear in the Guild Gift Shop.
And Monica undertakes a monthly challenge with her granddaughters to see what they can make out of various items in her stash, and here’s this month’s colourful effort.
Sharen B is working on some beautiful 3 dimensional embroidered flowers.
And finally this week, a very relaxing photo. Sarah K has a great excuse for not stitching in the past week in Clive, her
new 10-month-old whippet!

Show and Tell 15 June 2020

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Members have been very happy to be able to resume some small meetings, and share their work in person (subject to appropriate restrictions, of course). For those of us who are unable to attend for now, here is a little selection.

Leigh C was working on this lovely piece of hardanger
Pat B is continuing her work on her Or Nue piece inspired by a picture on a card. Some of us have been watching this one with interest, and there’s still a way to go yet
Elvi McC has been doing some very delicate stitching on some quilt blocks. The sayings and pictures are lovely!
Lynden Y is making her first foray into goldwork with a lovely kit from Alison Cole. It is definitely looking spectacular
Anne D has only just started a cross stitch piece with a saying that many of us can relate to
Cecilia S was working on a crocheted scarf, and had also done some lovely snowflakes, inspired by the wintery weather
Jasmine H has been making her daughter a hat for her birthday every year. This year her daughter has helped design and create the hat. Very beautiful!

Show and Tell 8 June 2020

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Our “regular” weekly sessions don’t usually take place on an ACT Public Holiday, however in these different times, we are finding more flexible ways to operate. For details of our current meeting procedures for members, see here.

Lynden Y has been working on a beautiful beaded butterfly. A previous member newsletter put out a call to assist the Australian National University, and Lynden is just one of our members who answered the call.
Sarah K’s progress report: “After every stitching session on my cross stitch for the last 5 months I have been asking my husband if he likes the horse I am making him. Finally this week we broke through and he could see the horse! It is all downhill from here. “

Show and Tell 25 May 2020

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It’s a little quiet on the members’ photo front this week, although I’m sure that there is plenty of craft work of all kinds going on. Sarah K’s comment prompts me to remember how great it is when the picture starts to “appear” when doing counted cross stitch.

However I have heard on the grapevine that some members are still contemplating what to do about this year’s “Members’ Challenge” project, and I confess I’m one – will my idea work out? Who knows, but I’m pressing on.

Robyn D has been diving into her stash and found this lovely lavender bag that hadn’t been made up, so she finished it up ready for the gift shop.
Sarah K: “I have finished making up my challenge piece and am making good progress on my cross stitch, so I am feeling quite self satisfied at the moment. Progress picture on the cross stitch is attached. At last I have started the horse!
I have just spent another afternoon with my niece on video doing some surface stitching this time. We are really getting into the swing of it now! I think that she has already decided that she prefers the canvas work. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

Show and Tell 18 May 2020

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Jan H has once again been busy producing Pippa the Pygmy Hippopotamus. (Gotta love those ankles!)
An original design.
From Gloria S, here are some of the cards she has been cross stitching. Gloria says she really enjoys seeing what others are making.
From Sarah K: “My niece finished her very first embroidery, a canvas work bookmark that I showed her how to make over video conferencing. A very good first effort and hopefully I have helped her find a new interest.”
From Sarah K: ” I am working on a cross stitch piece by Karen Couchman that is in sepia tones. The companion piece that I finished a couple of years ago took me about 10 years to finish, but I am hoping to give this one a little more focus…….I am doing the boring background first to keep me focused, although doing the dog was fun. What I love is the hint I picked up from a podcast, that suggested using spool wraps to hold the fabric up around the edges of my hoop at save me trying to hold it all together and to prevent me stitching through it accidentally.”
Sarah K: “[Spool hoops] are available at Fox Collection and on ebay and I now couldn’t imagine stitching with a hoop without them.”

Show and Tell 11 May 2020

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Members are continuing to keep busy, and here is some of their latest work.

See the captions for details. I’m particularly enjoying members’ comments about their work, and Anne D, I’m with you on both the trials of beading, and the “need” for online shopping!

From Agnes S, the first Glazig project was as a result of an internal Guild class held by member Loic J, using a kit by Pascal Jaouen https://www.pascaljaouen.com/
Agnes was clearly taken with the Glazig technique taught by Loic, as she completed the second project using inspiration from a picture on Instagram
The final projects looking lovely in Agnes’s hallway
Anne D has completed ‘Daisy Meadow’ which is the final project she did in Jenny Adin-Christie’s whitework class during a tour of the UK
Anne D has also finished ‘Paisley Garden’ from Simplee Designs, which is a UFO finally completed after putting off the beading for quite a while. From Anne: “I did not enjoy the beading and am now over beading for life. Chasing tiny beads around a container, putting them onto a needle and trying desperately to get them to look right on the fabric is not my scene.
I have just about finished the preparation for the Trapunto kit from Annie London that I bought from the Great Australian Craft Show on line a few weeks ago. I definitely didn’t need it but what has need got to do with anything.”
Genevieve T says “The Fox is entirely appropriate for the year I think! It is a pattern from Spruce Craft Co” https://www.sprucecraftco.com/collections/unique-cross-stitch-patterns/products/foxy-pair
This shawl, from Genevieve T, still needs to be blocked. The pattern is from https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/midsummer-rose with the designer being Lene Tøsti.

More shawl photos showing the colours and pattern

Show and Tell 4 May 2020

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We don’t usually have general meetings on an ACT Public Holiday (last Monday for ANZAC Day), however this week, Show and Tell is back. Lesley F is making progress on her piece, and Tracey K has a great sense of satisfaction in having finished some things.

Lesley F is making great progress on her crewel work piece
Tracey K has a contribution for the Guild gift shop
Tracey K says that this Sashiko panel was a birthday present and was a pleasure to stitch – Dragonflies and irises by HM textiles. Stitched with DMC perle 8 – 92.
Tracey K says that this last one is a piece of sashiko that her mum started and she finished and made it into a purse for her mum’s birthday. The pattern in Shippo tsunagi stitched in Olympus thread Variegated Blue – color #72