February at St Michael's

Crafty Church at St Michael's saw a few new members and lots of great creativity:

Yasmin and Carolin worked on Yasmin's shawl

I had fun playing with Lesley's felting kit

 While Lesley cut out felt flowers that she wants to felt onto a scarf

 

 I think the felting needle was far superior to the one I had: one blade and no handle, so I glued it into a lippy case to make it easier!

Alex is working from a book called Quilting For dummies, and is making this trapunto flower - the book suggests the cut-into-the-back-and-shove-in-some wadding method - I did show her the cut away method that Kandy taught the BQLers a few years ago

 And their mum is working on her tapestry, and I need photography lessons!






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February at Chertsey Museum

 Thanks to this book

And these pre-made samples (thanks Avril) we learnt reverse applique

With the help of freezer paper to stabilise the block fabric (the square) we were apply to apply a second fabric behind the fabric, with no visible stitches :-)

Two class samples

 And back and front of one with a fussy cut applique patch

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Kids' Fun With Fabric

Kids' Fun With Fabric

The monthly course at Chertsey Museum came about when I went to chat about helping with their Kids Craft days during school holidays.  When I was childminding I would take the gang there during the hols, and got to know Sally, the assistant curator.  When we talked about the children's sessions we got sidetracked and ended up arranging the adults sessions.

Well today I did my first children's sessions: 12 kids in the morning and 17 in the afternoon!  The theme was Making Monsters . . .  and just look what they achieved!

 

 

 

 

Me ? I'm exhausted!  Good night
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