One of our participants has been trying to polish up her sewing skills and a winter skirt has become a somewhat more long term project than originally anticipated. However with much adjustment of the pattern she now has a wonderful skirt for all seasons and while she is still not satisfied with her machining techniques, she has utilised her abundant resources to produce a fantastic unique skirt which is beautifully modelled..
Another SSSer is working on a cosy, colourful crochet quilt. The hot pink joins really make the other colours pop!
One of our very productive sewers came very well prepared with all the pieces for her skirt pre-cut. It was just a matter then of happily joining the pieces together without the interruption from little people. Once the skirt was complete, it was onto sewing the pieces for a winter nightie together. One skirt and an almost-nightie certainly indicates a productive SSS!
Some lucky grandchildren are going to have their own hand-made Christmas stockings to hang out for Santa this year. This SSS grandmother had her sewing machine racing at a great rate of knots as seam after seam was sewn! Once the stockings were done, it was on to some more therapeutic crochet and a tad of socialising, of course!
This amazing king-size quilt of over a hundred diamonds has been a labour of love over a considerable period of time. Hours and hours of stitching, pulling out and re-stitching have resulted in this glorious collection of blue and lavender with pops of green. In the background, one can see the matching pillowcases also carefully constructed. The diamonds are stitched together; the project has been quilted in a variegated thread of blue and lavender; so now it is time to attach the binding, sewn on by machine, turned back and then painstakingly stitched with tiny invisible hand-stitching. It's times like this, that one wishes one slept in a tiny cot!
Our resident expert in all things textiles has to pull out stitches occasionally. This photo does not capture the fantastic combination of browns, greens and creams which will soon be a tablecloth for a table on the veranda. The unpicking came about when two different sewing machines were used and their tensions did not agree with each other. Once this task was done it was on to the fun part of cutting out squares for a fruity sudoku quilt. This clever SSS had bought a collection of nine different fabrics each colourfully depicting a piece of fruit. We look forward to watching this project progress.
This lucky SSSer had acquired this exquisite red embossed fabric, which with the assistance of a very chic looking Vogue pattern will be transformed into a stunning dress. Unfortunately the photo does not do this elegant fabric the justice it deserves. Another project to keep a close eye on.
Some fabulous William Morris inspired fabric from the stash is now being converted into a wonderful small bag. This clever sewer used some green gingham cut on the bias and some narrow sewing cord to create piping which she then inserted into the seams giving the project a very professional finish. The green gingham bias also enhanced the small inside pockets. This sewer really pays a lot of attention to tiny details making her projects creative works of art.
One of the advantages of the GWL Community Meeting Room is the large tables which makes those large cumbersome projects easier to handle, usually.........However when there's two folk to a table and one needs access to those rare, oddly placed general power outlets, one is a tad bit more cramped than expected. This clever SSSer was replacing the elastic on one of her mattress protectors while wearing a beautifully-fitting skirt which she had begun at an earlier SSS.
One of our regular SSSers is making a series of floral-inspired panels as a means of learning to applique. The flowers and leaves are stitched using a machine blanket stitch while the stems are attached using a tiny hand stitch. Botanists would certainly have difficulty with some of the leaf, stem, flower combinations but for patchworkers it's merely an expression of creative licence and a means to link blocks in a work..
Looking forward to our next creative get-together. For those who are travelling, keep safe and we'll catch up with you on your return.
We'll catch up with everyone and their projects at the Community Meeting Room at the Gordon White Library at 1.00pm on Saturday 18 June, which is a week earlier than usual, due to the Show Public Holiday and the start of the school holidays!
Happy sewing!!!
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