Alice Springs Beanie Festival

Congratulations to Jacqui on winning the Cultural Stories section of the Old Stories New Yarns 2012 Beanie Festival Competition.

The Day the Parrots Ate Mum's Roses by Jacqueline Gibson

More Hats

There were over 35 hats on display at the Stirling Street Arts Centre's Decorated Hat Challenge - many of them felt.  Well done to everyone who entered the competition.

The results were fabulous with 5 of the 7 awards going to the felters!

Winner of the Elegant Garden Party Category was  "Fashion Passion" by Brenda Warner.



Designer Brenda Warner

Highly Commended  in the Elegant Garden Party was "The Green Gossip" by Kerry Gelmi

Designer Kerry Gelmi

The Mad Hatter Category winner was Sue Smorthwaite with "Snug"

Designer Sue Smorthwaite

And Highly Commended Mad Hatter was Jacqui Gibson's "The Day the Parrots Ate Mum's Roses"

Designer Jacqueline Gibson

Jacqui's hat also won the Viewers Choice.

Well done ladies.

May Meeting Show and Talk

Wow, didn't we get creative in last months hat making project. 

The first by Penny, it's still waiting for some finishing off around the brim but looks still fab now.

Designer Penny Elliot

Designer Penny Elliot

Beautiful colour by Maureen

Designer Maureen Foss



Designer Maureen Foss

 This one by Sue is decorated using a light cotton which really worked with the green wool.  Looks like a tapestry.

Designer Sue Smorthwaite

Designer Sue Smorthwaite

Val's amazing hat was mistaken for a flowering cactus when she left it out drying on her doorstep.

Designer Val Hornibrook

 It can be worn all sorts of different ways.

Designer Val Hornibrook

 You can even do a turban thing with it -

Designer Val Hornibrook

There was a bull in the next field and your blog writer hoped he wasn't going to get any angry thoughts about the red, especially when everything fell off the fence post and landed in his territory. Whooops!   Had to carefully sneak to other side of gate to retrieve Val's hat whilst keeping watchful eye on "El Toro". Sorry Val, think I brushed off all the agricultural bits!



Designer Val Hornibrook

Hats

As Lorraine started off the week we will finish our hat series with another of her creations -

Designer Lorraine McArther

Have you enjoyed our week in hat heaven?  Yes, we have too.  Makes us glad that the weather is getting colder and we can pull a divine brim of felted merino snuggly round our ears.
Our hats and plenty more will be at

The Decorated Hat Challenge

The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

There will also be lots of stalls selling unique hand crafted goodies including felt of course.

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

See you there!

Hats

Beanies are best.  This one is made with beautiful black wool.  Val Hornibrook rescues black sheep and keeps them on her farm in Capel.  Warms your heart as well as your head; what's not to love?

Designer Val Hornibrook

The Decorated Hat Challenge

The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

More soft colours, just what's needed for a cool autumn day -

Designer Denise Reid

The Decorated Hat Challenge

The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

Decorated for evening -

Designer Sue Seaman

The Decorated Hat Challenge
The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

Stylishly pretty -

Designer Denise Reid 

The Decorated Hat Challenge

The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

Designer Lorraine McArthur

You can't beat a beret.

The Decorated Hat Challenge
The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

Designer Sue Smorthwaite

Is this not amazing?? 

Sue's life past, present and future is embedded into this "scarat" (so called because it's a hat and scarf combined).    Yes we know - cunning.    It's such a  time saving idea - life is short.
Created at our recent Marjolein Dallinga workshop.

The Decorated Hat Challenge
The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm

Hats

Everyone knows the Bunbury Felters give good hat and with our April meeting being a hatathon of millinery and the Stirling Street Arts Centre's forthcoming Autumn Fair including a decorated hat challenge we thought we would dedicate this week to the splendidness of the felt hat.

Designer Lorraine McArthur

The Decorated Hat Challenge

The Autumn Fair

Stirling Street Arts Centre

Corner Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury

(see the map in the right hand side bar)

Sunday 29th April

10.00am - 3.00pm