Hoping for lots of dots ....

We enjoyed a super talk from Kate Wells last week about her fascinating journey to develop her work from black and white mark making with different media to intricate, large-scale gold lace hangings. Sketchbooks are an important tool in her work.

We are very much looking forward to receiving photos of members' "dots and spots" as a result of Kate's challenge to us at the end of her talk.  She encouraged us to experiment and be inventive in sampling different ways of creating dots, and we saw some very imaginative pieces at the show-and-tell session on Saturday afternoon. It will be a treat to share those ....

Meanwhile, here are a couple more super pieces from members following last month's scrap bag challenge.

Mary went for deep colours, with pieces unified with single-colour stitching and extra embellishments:

Julia O.'s background fabric is dyed with turmeric. She made use of limited resources: threads are mostly left overs from various cross stitch kits, starting with running stitch and incorporating other stitches, with colours chosen to link to the fabrics, which are part Gelli printed, furnishing samples and commercial print samples in a mix of fibre type and texture.

She says she would do the challenge again with a better choice of scraps (these tended to fray when cut small, making stitching fiddly) and sees it forming part of a book cover. 

As always, ladies, please do keep sharing photos of your work, they are a wonderful inspiration to us all.  

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