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Crewel Embroideryworkshop As We Now Approach Easter, Lou and I Will Be Demonstratng a Picture Smocked Bunny Rabbit on an Egg SMOCKING ARTS GUILD of NSW INC. PO Box 5212 GREYSTANES 2145 ABN: 662550172428 Secretary President Treasurer Julie Tricket Sandra Tedesco Menna Rondel (02) 4244 0768 0417 431 387 0418 957 299 NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017 – all newsleters can be viewed at www.smockingguildnsw.com PRESIDENTS REPORT Hi ladies NEXT MEETING – Thursday 6th April- Meetng 10am and 7 pm Another month goes by and we are already 3 months through 2017. Hope you have been enjoying your smocking and sttching. Shop visit from Appleyard Cotage On 2nd April Carollyn Pearce will be doing a workshop on a crewel at both meetngs embroidered tape measure cover. Hope those ladies who atend have htps://www.appleyardcotage.com.au a great day! There is stll space in the class if you are interested. Mini lesson: Don’t forget the “Name the Newsleter” competton. I will have a box Picture smocked bunny rabbit. to put your entries in. You can have as many entries as you like, just See President’s report for lesson remember to put your name on a piece of paper with your suggested requirements ttle. There will be a prize for the winning entry. Please hand in your block for our rafe quilt to Marie at the April APRIL: meetng at the latest which will give Marie tme to put it together Sunday 2nd - Crewel Embroidery Workshop before Darling Harbour. We will take photos of the quilt and anyone who would like to take rafe tckets to sell can take a photo with it. with Carolyn Pearce see separate details We had our stall at my quiltng group last month and raised $323.00, a very successful day! To book your place contact Cheridan: Not many months lef untl Darling Harbour Craf & Quilt Fair so if you [email protected] have any spare tme it would really be appreciated if you could make a Saturday 21st April smocked item for sale. This is our major fund raiser for the year and we need to have enough items to sell for 5 days. Doesn’t have to be large, Annual sale of work stall 9.30am—3pm there is lots of nice fabric in the cupboard which you might fnd useful. I will bring fabric & lace for lingerie bags if you want to make any of those. If you would like any further informaton about what to make please see Carollyn or Sue T at the meetngs. Crewel EmbroideryWorkshop As we now approach Easter, Lou and I will be demonstratng a picture smocked bunny rabbit on an Egg. I have bought egg shapes for you so with CarolynPearce bring along your white fabric (36” x 5.75”) pleated with 11 full space Sunday 2nd April - 10.30am —3.30pm rows in white thread in the centre and we shall add a litle bunny to it. You can also bring a needle and coloured stranded thread of your This is a crewel work workshop working with- choice for the bunny. I will bring along fufy white thread for the tail. stitches that can be used to complete Pansy for a We also have Veronica from Appleyard Cotage visitng us at both Retractable Tape Measure Cover morning and evening meetngs next month. She has lovely fabrics and nice notons so bring your money with you. Our annual sale of work stall will be held on Saturday 21st April from 9.30am to 3pm. Let your friends know as we have some beautful knitng, hand towels and lots of other items for sale. Let me know if you need pleater needles as I bring them along to the meetngs. I have both Read 85c each and Sally Stanley/Amanda Jane needles $2.15 each. There are also several pleaters for sale. Welcome to new member Untl next month, happy smocking. Ruth Witcombe Regards, Sandra Trickett’s Treats” from Julie Here is a cute idea for a pot holder Wishes to everyone celebratng that will use up lots of scraps. I love a birthday in March: how it slides on to the handle! 3rd—Marg McLean http://www.sameliasmum.com/2014/02/pot- holder-pocket-week-2152.html#.WLKT3PLNFuX 6th—Robyn Hicks 7th—Sandra Tedesco 13th—Trish Stanley 14th—Onita Pollit Membership Update 15th—Marie Corney Thank you to all those who have renewed their membership for 2017. For those who have not yet done so, a reminder, 21st—Menna Rondel that if not renewed by our April meetng , you will no longer 25th—Ann Younger receive the newsleter or have access to members area on the website etc. 27th—Val Alexander Your membership of $40 can be paid by cash or cheque at meetngs, or alternatvely: post cheque to PO Box 5212 Greystanes 2145 or EFT - Smocking Arts Guild BSB 062246 A/c 10015755 This year we have requested that all members fll out a Name the Newsleter membership form (atached) which now includes a queston regarding the privacy of our membership details. We thought it would be nice for our Newsleter to have a name Do you consent to your address and contact details, being and we seek your ideas. available for inspecton by other members, for the purpose of the Guild? YES NO Write down your suggestons, include your name This queston is required by the new legislaton covering and place your entry into the suggeston box at incorporated associatons such as our Guild. The list of the next meetng. members names is available for inspecton by all members, You can have more than one suggeston. however further informaton such as addresses will only be made available for Guild purposes if the member has The closing date is April meetng . consented by answering Yes on their membership form. However as previously stated, due to privacy laws, if mem- bers wish to contact other members, please contact me and I will pass on their details to the member they wish to contact. [email protected] 0412545121 Smoked bishop for Sandra Oldis Kruger doll by Sandra O. Lou’s “Look in the Library” Greetngs Smockers, Have you been enjoying the wet weather? At least it is a good opportunity for some smocking. This month I have for your perusal the next two issues of AS&E. Thank you also for the great feedback for this segment. ISSUE 37 Those who are into dolls will enjoy the issue as it has a young girl’s drop waist dress with a matching doll’s dress. Both the paterns are included and as always the instructons are clear and easy to follow. It features some heirloom sewing, bullions and pintucks; such a wonderful combinaton of techniques for any smocked garment. Are you interested in counterchange smocking? The two sundresses on pps 4-7 are a lovely combinaton of red and navy blue. They are front opening dresses with piping and one is embel- lished with a white collar. I think they look very modern. The next outit is made from twill and is beautfully smocked around a front panel of embroidery. It is exquisite. A variety of gorgeous dresses are featured along with a boy’s outit featuring smocked panels. ISSUE 38 Featuring a beautful bishop dress , this mag is flled with lovely smocking ideas. Do you re- member Sandra talking about smocking with knit fabric? Take a look at the dress on page 4 It is quite simple but trendy and would be a good alternatve to the usual coton type dresses. Smocking provides us with the opportunity to make lovely gifs. Have a look at the coathanger and baby cushion on page 19. These paterns would suit those of us who love to embroider. Clear instructons for shadow work is also provided. Have you ever thought about smocking on knited fabric? It is very similar to smocking on a singlet. The patern is a classic style of a 1940’s cardigan with smocking and bullions. Once again clear instructons are included. A very unusual bag patern with a smocked doll applique is also featured. The doll is clothed in a smocked bishop dress and atached to the bag. Interestng concept? We are now really looking forward to our weekend away at Ferndale. Oh what joy to be away from the vexatons of life. Happy Smocking. Lou Tedesco. Donaton to Carefight In 2016 the Guild made a donaton to Carefight to purchase Intubator trainers. These are the CareFlight clinicians using the neonatal intubaton trainer during a training session. www.careflight.org Fun at “Ferndale” Weekend Wow, what a weekend we have just experienced!! UFOs emerged from craf cupboards and culminated in an Aggregaton of Aliens, Darth Va- ders, constellatons & planets for a Saturday night celebraton, which was much enjoyed by everyone present. Our resident weather girl, Ann-Maree, and her apprentce Trish, kept us well informed on the many informed on the many faces of the weekend weather: mist, showers, torrental rain and fnally, just as we were leaving Ferndale, sunshine!! We experienced a terrifc partcipaton in Maries quiltng class with 19 completely diferent quilts emerging from one identcal patern. An amazing variety of work coming from a group of su- perbly creatve women. Beautful colour variatons and a couple of space themed ones too. Many, many thanks to the Apex Alien Sue aka Darth Vader, and her trustworthy side-kick Sheridan (Obi-Wan Kenobi) who put in hours and hours of planning to make our space adventure such fun and safely returned us back to earthly reality on a sunny Sunday afernoon. New spacey informaton was learned from our quiz - did you know that Venus has a retrograde rotaton around the sun? Many beautful gifs were won and space themed fat-quarters shared.
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