Lengths of the Earth

The Creative Group issued a challenge to all "Fiberians" (I like that word, Carol)...ie members of Fibres and Fabrics to join a scavenger hunt.

They are to be finished by the first Wednesday in December, and will be hung in Federation Place.  Here is a teaser to wet your appetites and encourage those thought processes.

Detail of Beryl's

 Detail of Kathy's.

A little bit of Carol's

Details of the Lengths of the Earth Challenge are in this post.

Suzanne's Surprise

In appreciation of the wonderful contribution made by Suzanne in making the North Queensland Show and Tell an amazing success, Kathy presented her with a box of thrinchies ("three inch squares") made by various members.  Click here to see them.

Fibres on Saturday

The Fibres on Saturday group formerly known as SWAT, have issued their members with a challenge.  Each person was given a bag of unspun wool in similar colours with the challenge being to make something.  Megan, Janet W. and Marion spun their wool.

Megan plied hers with black yarn

and Janet is weaving a double-sided beret.

Sand Workshop update

I have updated the post on Isabel's mini workshop here, with instructions for those people who were unable to attend.  Janet B.

Still Wrapt in Rope Bags!

Some of us are still wrapt in the wrapped rope baskets and bags which Annette taught us to make. Here's one by Deb P which's really nifty! And BIG.

Congratulations Gai!

Searching for Filiaria on the Fly

The river was flooding, the engine had failed and there were no oars and it was still raining.

Gai’s Painting that won the Australian College of Tropical Medicine Art Prize

Isabel's Workshop on Fabric Sand

Isabel, who has been visiting us from California, gave a workshop on how to make fabric sand.

Thank you Isabel. It has been so good to meet you and get to know you a little. We all at Fibres wish you and Bob all the best in your further travels and hope to see you again when you're back in Townsville.

Those people who attended Ruth Bloomfield's confetti workshop some years ago will recognize similar elements in Isabel's technique.  The pieces are the same "trapezoid" shape but much smaller, only 5mm at most. If your fabric has an obvious wrong side, use fusible webbing to fuse two pieces wrong side together, in this way you don't have to pick through and turn each little piece right side up.  The slivers are scattered across the area with shadows being created by slivers of the opposite colour on the colour wheel.  They are trapped beneath a layer of tulle and then free-motion stitched onto the background.

Janet's Bookmaking Workshop

Janet B recently gave a couple of bookmaking/binding workshops at the Perc Tucker Gallery while our Totems were being exhibited. These are some of the results of work done by Kathy S and Marion G at the workshop and brought to Fibres on Wednesday for show and tell.