Wednesday Social Morning and General Meeting

The Farm House was filled almost to capacity this morning, there was such a crowd in attendance. The chatter level was so great that Kath had to bring out Margaret D's old bell to bring the midday meeting to order!

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While the rest of us were keeping our hands and mouths busy with handwork and chatter, Peter quietly got on with his work on the loom and Loma did the same on the spinning wheel.

The SWAT (Spinners, Weavers and Associated Textiles - I think I've got that correct?) Group are very active and are attracting a lot of interest. This coming Saturday morning there'll be a felting workshop. It starts at 9 am. If you want to join in and have lots of fun, bring: soap, a biscuit/baking tray, an (empty!) beer/cardboard carton, a freezer bag big enough to fit your hand in, a bucket and a spray bottle. If you have wool tops suitable for felting bring those, otherwise there will be some available to purchase at the Farm House. The Creative Group are joining in to make a wool batt suitable to work further, another time. And Carol C is coming from Cairns to teach us resist felting. (I understand that's what the cardboard's for!)

There were a lot of items at Show and Tell this week. I'd have posted more but my camera batteries went flat - wouldn't you know it! (So email me photos of your items please?) These two Polish vests were among the things and were made by Patrica S 20 years ago!

Christine and the Cross Stich and Embroidery Group got a lot of us going with their idea of sewing and then pooling some candlewicking squares from which to make a quilt. The idea was so enthusiastically embraced by so many people that there are enough squares to make two quilts! This square was sewn by Suzanne D.

Hope those of you who couldn't be there today have enjoyed this small insight into today's get together. We would love to see what you're working on or have recently completed, so please email me ( jungleburra@gmail.com ) some photos and a description so I can add them to the blog for you.