Friday, 24 January 2014

January Meeting

The January meeting was a demo night, with 3 branch members giving different demonstrations to branch members.

Paula Rafferty showed how to make fabric pictures using the Laura Wasilowski technique.



Some of the bright colours used by Paula in her demo.


 Grania Preston showed how to do paper lamination.


Here's Grania soaking her paper laminated fabric in water



Claire Lynch gave 2 demo's. One demo showed how to make paper beads and the other how to use glue as a resist when painting/dyeing fabrics.



We also had a lot of show and tell on the night.

A small selection of the show and tell on the night
A baby quilt made by one of our younger members
Isabelle Maher showing her hand-made teddy
 

One of our new members Ruth Bourke showed us this lovely Halloween quilt she recently finished. Ruth also showed us a cushion she made using the economy block  which is a bit hit on quilting blogs at the moment.
Halloween Quilt by Ruth Bourke

Paula Rafferty showed some quilts that has recently finished off. This quilt was made from a Jelly Roll, using the quick strip-piecing technique mentioned to us by Edwina Mackinnon during her talk last year.
Paula also showed this lovely Christmas quilt. 

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