With school holidays on the horizon, SSS met a week earlier. With several of our number already away on holidays we were fewer in numbers than last month but that didn't dampen the creativity or the socialising.
A newcomer crocheted these sweet little teddies. Other enthusiasts asked for the pattern to find this creator just develops the pattern as she goes which was very impressive. She showed us one teddy that she had semi-completed but was not happy with. After much discussion it was decided that the colour combination did not work as well as the others she had done, so it was on to crocheting another teddy with a different colour combination which seemed to be working very well.
Our Suffolk Puff expert has started the massive job of attaching the yo-yos onto the quilt backing which is a delightful lavender; a neutral colour and yet one with warmth and fun thrown in as a bonus. Trying to ensure a good spread of the many hued Suffolk Puffs can be quite time consuming as one wants to avoid two yo-yos of the same colour beside each other and yet not have the colour combination to look contrived either. We look forward to watching this project's progress.
Here are some Suffolk Puffs which are also known as yoyos. Our Suffolk Puff expert finishes hers with a neat circle of felt in the centre which enhances its flower-like appearance.
Our patchworker is working on a gift for her sister. Using bright but op-arty Kaffe Fassettt fabrics and a technique called fabric or patchwork piecing she is slowly but surely constructing a collection of delightful placemats. This style of piecing does not use templates but requires careful sewing from the back of the project. There can be a little unpicking involved at times.
Here is a collection of Kaffe Fassett fabrics, some of which are making an appearance in the placemats:
The fabrics are absolutely gorgeous but again it is trying to balance the colours to show them all off and yet create a unified overall effect.
Another of our SSSers just loves coming along to SSS as it gives her an opportunity to catch up on all of those little projects (like taking up hems on too-long pants) while having a chat with other sewers. When her sewing machine is being pernickety, there is usually another sewer who can offer some assistance to get things moving again. She now has two more pairs of long pants ready to wear when the weather cools down. She was very pleased to announce that her mending/fixing pile has somewhat decreased since she started attending SSS!
Our appliquer was dismayed to find she had left her bright LED light behind, so she needed to position herself close to one of the glass doors to capture the natural light so she could sew the tiny stitches needed to attach the stems of her appliqued flowers. After that was completed it was on to the ongoing cross-stitch project but unfortunately the necessary needle was still at home under the bright LED light so...........Fortunately she had everything to continue on with her circular knitting project but ... for half a row it was forgotten that she was knitting moss stitch not rib so all that knitting had to be pulled out. Some days are like that.
We'll continue our social creative journey on Saturday 30 July at 1.00 pm at the Community Meeting Room at the Gordon White Library. Bring along your project as well as the bits and pieces that are needed to progress it, like LED lights, embroidery needles and so on.
Happy stitching.......
