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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Museum Making

September's Fun With Fabric at Chertsey Museum saw us making chicken pin cushions . . . Well that was the plan!

Some are certainly chickens

 Others became mice!

The ladies also brought some show and tell - completed projects from previous sessions

We all had fun, especially as the lovely Museum ladies had made me a birthday cake!!!

 

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Fantastic Felt Jewellery

Thanks to all those who came to today's felt jewellery session at Chertsey Museum, I had a great day, and you came up with some fab creations!

Chertsey Bag Ladies

The ladies brought friends and wine, the museum provided bags and nibbles, and I brought felt, fabric, bondaweb, buttons, embroidery threads, cute stuff, rubber stamps, and other stuff . . . and we had a great evening: just look what they made

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Friday Flowers

The ladies at Chertsey Museum made fabric flowers yesterday

Oakfield Owls

At Oakfield yesterday we gave ourselves a break from embroidering words onto leaves, and switched to owls instead.

The plan is to have one owl for each head teacher in the 50 years of the school.  I sketched them a simple owl and showed them how to break it down into body and wings, and gave them ideas for eyes, beaks and legs

Didn't they do well

Sewing At School

Saturday was the final school Fun With Fabric course for the summer.  We had a lovely morning and lots of squares got stitched together

And some got glued together instead!

But when you're 4 that's much easier than sewing!

Oakfield Friday

We've now reached 40 embroidered leaves, just 10 to go

Some children got bored with embroidery so they did some weaving instead