May I take this opportunity, Dear Reader to thank you for following the Textile Maids blog spot. It is great to know you are interested in our work so thank you all for your support.
We had a really lovely day on Wednesday working on our projects-Revival for some and for those up to date, organised members a fresh start on the new challenge of Textures.
We were really delighted to welcome two new members to our group and look forward to their response to our monthly challenges. So a great big Textile Maids welcome to Jill and Michelle. It is great to have you on board. We are all really getting to grips with the new subjects each month and in fact eager to rise to the challenge. So far, as you know we have had Heartlands. Close-up, Seeds, Dreams, Revival and now Textures. So, nothing too off the wall or obscure (wait 'till mine are picked out of the tin) just some good meaty ideas to stretch our minds.
At the 'Show and Tell' session looking at the Dreams challenge pieces it seems wonderful how we all approach the subjects so differently, amazing that in a group of people so in tune with the same discipline that no two pieces of work are remotely alike. This is diversity in action. In fact there is probably a scientific name for it.Or if not, there should be.
My favourite piece is Rebecca's Do Androids dream of electric sheep. It is clever and fun.
I really love the electric sheep complete with flashing LED eyes. With my work I am always aware that I need to free up but Becca is so free she floats!
I feel we are really bedding in (or should that be gelling in modern speak) as a group now and everyone is so generous with ideas and support it is becoming a real unit. Not quite as Bertie Wooster would say ' Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one' but certainly several ladies on the same wavelength having a blast once a month. The next blast is at Trebah Gardens at the end of June where we will be making the most of the facilities on offer. I have heard the restaurant highly spoken of in the cream tea department not to mention the home made quiche. Oh yes.
The challenge will be Trebah of course so I guess those of us who can will be sketching and painting and those of us who cannot will be taking photographs. Hooray for digital cameras (and posh phones)
Check in again soon for more blogs from the Maids.
Pip pip
Margaret
