It’s not just quilts …

Our group members have a wide range of skills, presences and taste, which are not always manifest as quilts. These are some recent projects that are not quilts, and are quite different from each other.

Susan Mack made a new bag - unsurprising - putting her
sewing machine through its paces, using raw edged denim
and pieces cut (with kitchen scissors) from aluminum drink cans!

A heavy duty denim machine needle coped
well with the aluminum.

The stable bottom of the bag include the aluminum pieces.

The mesh fabric that Susan often uses for
pockets adds an industrial element.

Janice and Miriam both participated in an embroidery and fine appliqué workshop with Sue Stitchbury The Crewel Gobelin in Killara, stitching whimsical figures on vintage damask napkins. The appliqué fabric is Liberty Tana lawn, allowing the tiny pieces to be needle-turned. They will become wall hangings or be framed.

Janice chose the butterfly design …

… figures in all directions, and sweet little houses.

Embroidery decorates some elements and
adds fine details to others, such as fairy wings!

Miriam surrounded her centre star with lively figures …

… some of them apparently standing on their heads …

… some flying, and some upright.