American Indians, Nature, Astrology, Garden Pests and The English Countryside...

We had a super meeting in November sharing ideas for our next theme, The Written Word. Some of us had too many ideas and some of us found it hard to pick one and stick to it. However, as always the point of belonging to a group is to share thoughts and gain inspirations and views from fellow members. We talked about a wide range of themes from - messages, poetry, Beatrice Potter's nature, graffiti fonts, historic novels plus various other topics. Hopefully by the time we meet in the new year we'll have cemented some ideas to share with you.

We also continued to share and work on our Altered Books project, these books are getting more interesting and growing fatter with each alteration. You can see from the title of this post just a few of the subjects we have to tackle.

Here are our snaps to share with you...

Rosemary - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Sue - altered book

Sue - altered book

Sue - altered book

Jane - altered book

Jane - altered book

Jane - altered book

Margaret - altered book

Margaret - altered book

Margaret - altered book

Margaret - altered book

As you can see we're getting carried away and completing more than one page each month.

Until next time, Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the Maids. Thanks for joining us throughout the year.

Sue

New Theme & Altered Books...

As I mentioned in a previous post we have been thinking about our next theme. We've come up with a very exciting title - The Written Word. We've started talking through our ideas, but decided to have a little down time after our two exhibitions and enjoy working through our altered books project.

Below are a few snap to share with you...

Debbie 

Debbie 

Sue 

Jane

Jane

Margaret - book cover

Margaret

Rosemary

Rosemary

Rosemary

It's so interesting each month to see how the books are changing with fabric, stitch, collage and printing.....great show and tell sessions.

Thanks for reading, back soon.
Sue

chainREACTION at Bude...

We had a super exhibition at The Castle, an excellent venue with very welcoming staff.
Here are a few snaps to share with you...

Liz left & Jane right

Debbie

Jenni left & Chris right

Sue left & Rosemary right

table display

table display & sketchbooks

Liz

table display & sketchbooks

Margaret

Maggie left & Diana right

table display

table display

The added bonus was the beautiful sunshine, well, once the storm had blown through.

Our charity was in aid of Cancer Research UK in memory of our friend Margaret Garrood, we raised a grand total of £812.80.

Hope you enjoyed seeing our exhibition snaps, we're meeting tomorrow so I should be back soon.
Sue

Altered Books and our next Venue...

Our September meeting was a very creative affair. After perusing our altered books from last month, we exchanged titles and started altering the pages with paint, print, stitch and textiles.

Below you will see pages from our returned books...

Jane - altered book 

Margaret - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Debbie - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Rosemary - altered book

Sue - altered book

Sue - altered book

As you can see we are all thoroughly enjoying this project, completing more than one page.

Tomorrow we are off to install our chainREACTION Exhibition in the Blanchminster Room, The Castle, Bude 10th-16th October 10am-4pm. It's such a lovely venue with a super cafe and it's free. If you're in the area please pop in and say hello, we all love to talk about textiles.

Hope you enjoyed seeing the snaps of our altered books, back soon.
Sue