Chertsey Chicks

Add together wine and friends and crisps and fabric

and you get chicks . . . 

Isn't he cute?

And here he is with all his friends

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Broom Farm Monday

Half way through this block at Broom Farm, and I have the ladies complaining that (a) it's only on for two hours (b) its only on once a week and (c) it's not on next week (school hols) - I think that means they are enjoying it!

D making dummy clips and bag tags

L making a tree which will be part of her Advent Calendar

T working on more folded pinwheels for a quilt

D with stacks of fabrics cut, stitched and now cut again toward making a vanishing 9 patch

S working on two Christmas stockings

C working on the Advent Calendar pockets . . . 

. . . that will go with this amazing Christmas tree.  (each triangle is smaller than a joint on my little finger, and each one is hand stitched to the background!)

Well done to all

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Painting with Buttons

The ladies at Chertsey Museum got creative today with a few thousand buttons to choose from, and made pictures in Embroidery hoops.  These hoops had the advantage of having hooks already, so the pictures would be easy to hang once they are finished

 


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Monday Makes

I spend lovely Monday afternoons at Broom Farm with half a dozen creative ladies, and now that the autumn term is underway I thought you might like to see what they are working on:

G with a 3D flower cushion - her own design

B working on some blackout curtains

S designing a Christmas stocking that she is going to make 

C working on tiny triangles to make a Christmas tree of her own design

 J with the sampler quilt she is working on: Dresden plate next

And D with the rag doll she made - and had to prise away from her one year old to be able to bring it to class!

Haven't they all done well 

Friday Foliage

Today I spent a lovely afternoon with mums and children from Oakfield School. We have been working on a wall hanging to celebrate the school's 50th anniversary later this month.

The school is called Oakfield for a big oak tree in the field that is part of the playground, so we took the tree as our inspiration. Fifty leaves, and fifty inspirational words, six owls to represent the six head teachers, and one tree.

Today I brought in the embroidery machine and the embroidery design software on a lap top. "A" took a basic leaf design and with a brief lesson created the whole name of the school in embroidery

So he started with this basic oak leaf design, and had a five minute lesson in moving, rotating, duplicating and adjusting sizes, and then got on with it . . .

. . . and created the letters that, when I get them stitched out will look like this

The other children each had a go at programming the embroidery machine to stitch their own name

While the mums stitched leaves and owls to the wall hanging

And this is how it looks now

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