Check out this short video for the Common Threads Wearable Art Showcase this coming Saturday 2nd May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri7wzZwKFeM

Common Threads Wearable Art Competition - Update

Images from the judging day in February of Common Threads - Wearable Art Competition

Group members Sue Smorthwaite, Kerry Gelmi and Jacqueline Gibson are all through to the final showcase on the 2nd May, when the winners will be announced.

Good luck to all the finalists in the competition and if you are interested in seeing the show, please follow the link to the official site for tickets

http://www.manpac.com.au/show/common-threads-wearable-art-showcase/

Weighted Untruths by Sue Smorthwaite and Icosahedron by Kerry Gelmi

Foundation Garment by Jacqueline Gibson

All photos taken by Tristan Jud

March Group Meeting

We had a relaxed but productive monthly meeting on Friday.
Congratulations to members Sue Smorthwaite, Kerry Gelmi and Jacqueline Gibson for getting through to the final showcase of the Common Threads Wearable Art Competition, part of the Stretch Arts Festival Mandurah
Their garments will be part of the final showcase on the 2nd May where  the winners of the Sculptural (Kerry and Jacqueline), Avante Garde (Sue), Recycled Sections and Overall show winner will be announced.

We are very pleased to welcome new members, Alison, Karen, Susie and Valerie and hope they will enjoy being part of  our felting group. Thanks Sue#1 for making them feel so welcome.



Lorraine took the monthly workshop and showed us how to work on a large piece of felt. Using a limited amount of table space, she showed us how to lay out a long length of fabric and wool to make a scarf.

Show and Tell

New member Valerie bought in this lovely little bowl to show us

The following pictures are of the technique taught at last months meeting

Colleens piece using cotton voile 

Penny's piece

Patsy's piece

Rosemary's piece made up into a cushion

Kerry's piece

Sue#2's piece

Some of Kim's beads made on the Meditation Bead Workshop with Nancy Ballesteros

Detail on Rosemary's bag

2 lovely poppy pictures from Sue#1

Nuno Bead Meditation Workshop with Nancy Ballesteros

This weekend we invited Nancy Ballesteros from Treetops Colour Harmonies down to show us how she makes her wonderfully textured felted beads.
13 of us gathered at the Yallingup Hall Friday afternoon and despite the heat, beavered away until the beach beckoned some for a swim. Back at Sue#2's house after supper we finished off fulling the nuno felt, and Saturday we learnt how to construct the beads.

We had a productive but relaxed time, (a good job, as it was a bead meditation workshop!) 
We bought lots of goodies from Nancy and have a new reason, not that we really need one, to collect all those wonderful fabric scraps and visits to the Op shops.

Thank you Nancy for your tutoring, and thank you to all the girls that came, for the food, wine and wonderful company. A good time was had by all.

Class of 2015

Back; Denise, Emma, Margaret, Rosemary, Colleen, Jean, Vicki, Julie & Kayleen

Front; Kim, Sue#2, Jane & Kerry

Kim, Sue#2 and tutor Nancy               Emma laying out her wool

Nancy & Margaret

Our felted pieces before the beads were made

Denise & Nancy

Oh, such concentration! Jane & Rosemary

Kayleen & Vicki

February Group Meeting

It was great to get back into felting yesterday with our first group meeting.
Every one was happy and eager to try the new room layout (with air-con) and the new format for the day that will allow us more uninterrupted time to felt.

February's project taken by Sue#2, demonstrated the "cracked mud" effect, one of the surface design techniques learnt from Fiona Duthie's online workshop. Everyone was keen to have a go, so we should have some examples for next months show and tell.

We have had two members enter STRETCH Common Threads Wearable Art Competition this year, and both have got through to the final judging event to be held in Mandurah on the 28th March. The winners will be announced at the Showcase event in Mandurah on the 2nd May. Once the official photographs have been taken in March, we will post them here for you to see.

This month we are also looking forward to our weekend in Yallingup doing the Nuno Bead Meditation workshop with Nancy Balleseteros from Treetops Colour Harmonies 

An exciting start to the year!

February's Show and Tell

Christine's wonderful baby shoes

Jane Field's cracked mud effect

Sue#2's cracked mud effect and Kerry's stool (photo by; Toni C.)

Margaret's first attempt at needle felting animals, a gorgeous fox

Sue#1's wonderful vase of flowers with stitched detail.