Photos for May

Just a few photos, Fibres as a group is very busy at the moment, creating pieces for the Reef Project that we are involved in. I have included the relevant information at the bottom of this post.  There are quite a number of workshops out in the community, these too are listed below.

Weave the reef from junk

First Wednesday of every month at Fibres from 10am

we will be making reef. You can work on your own project

or I can show you what to do.  Marion

Weave the Reef - Love the Reef
Join members of Fibres and Fabrics Association Inc. with

 artist Marion Gaemers in a series of free, pop-up community

workshops throughout 2015 in the Townsville CBD.
Participants will be guided in creating coral reef structures

from marine debris, recycled clothing and crochet, including ghost nets and rubbish collected from Tangaroa Blue Foundation Beach Clean ...Ups.
Components of the community artwork resulting from the workshops will be displayed at 'ECO Fiesta', during 'Strand Ephemera', and culminating in a large installation at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Flinders Street during the major exhibition 'REEF', to be launched in December.

Dates, times and venues:
- Saturday 23 May [10am - 1pm] in Townsville Bulletin Square
- Sunday 31 May [10am - 4pm] at ECO Fiesta, Queens Gardens, Gregory St
- Saturday 27 June [10am - 1pm] in Townsville Bulletin Square
- Saturday 4 July [10am - 4pm] at The Townsville Show, Townsville Showgrounds, adjacent Ingham Rd
- Saturday 25 July [10am - 1pm] in Townsville Bulletin Square
- Monday 3 August, Wednesday 5, Friday 7 August [3 - 5pm] at Strand Ephemera, The Strand
- Saturday 8 August [10am - 3pm] at Townsville Seafood Festival, Townsville Bulletin Square
- Saturday 29 August [10am - 1pm] in Townsville Bulletin Square
- Saturday 26 September [10am - 1pm] at Museum of  Tropical Queensland

-Saturday 31 October [10am - 1pm] at Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium
- Saturday 28 November [10am - 1pm] at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

 

Field of Poppies - Anzac 100 year anniversary

Well, we've had Anzac Day  and it appears that our Field of Poppies was a great hit with local people and the TV people, there were several interviews, photo shoots, a radio interview and it seemed lots of other publicity.  All of which was wonderful if not nerve wracking for those involved.  

I'll put a few photos up and attempt to get the video of one of the interviews to work..  at this point I've been unable to get it to work here. sorry.   I'll give it a go another day.

We left a path between the poppies for people to walk through, this path had sprigs of rosemary strewn along it so that when walked on the aroma was released.  The path appeared to be popular with small children and was still visible after we had removed the poppies and rosemary.  

Thanks to all members and their friends and relatives that helped out.

25 March, Show and Tell and ATC swap

We spent the day chatting, stitching, chatting, stitching..  was lovely, if a bit hot...  did I say we were busy chatting?  We have a lot of fun at fibres, in amongst the work we do for the community.

Enjoy

ATC's swapped, Sandra B x 2, Suzanne C, Annette, Pam, Sue B, Nita, Kathy, Jane.

Quitls for nursing homes, aren't they great.

This is the back of one of the above quilts.

Quilt by Suzanne C, our esteemed President being incognito.

And again, quilt by Quilt by Suzanne C, our esteemed President being incognito, Jessica in the background.

Above and below - Knitted baby blocks by Veronica, for Deb's first grand child.

Starfish by Barb N, isn't it life like..

March is half way through and I'm trying to catch up, so photos only today.

Reef Project weavings above and below

Making stars for the 1 Million Stars project above and below

'Watch Tower' boxes on display at the Aitkenvale Library above and below.

ATC by Jan C for February.

Embroidery for February

Here's great photo of the embroidery group enjoying their monthly get together, this at Sue L's house.  I'm told a great time was had by all.

Within the group are - Robyn B, Barb N, Rhonda L, Lyn H, Janet B, Kathy S, Suzanne C, Sue L.

enjoy

Felting Fun

Hi, a long weekend of felting fun was offered by one of our members, Suzanne G.  More than a dozen of us descended on Suzanne's place on Sunday to learn how to make shibori felted shapes.  Many different colours were used for both the backing fabric and the roving side.  A number of us stayed the night (8 all up from memory), and felted again on Monday, learning about resists, four of us stayed that night and felted again on Tuesday, practicing what we had learnt, heading home late that afternoon.  A wonderful three days was had, lots of laughter, chat, eating and creating in great company.  Thankyou again Suzanne G.

enjoy
Annette

Jan C, piece made using resists, then added beads.

Suzanne G piece made using resists, then added bark and sticks.

Jan C, piece made using resists.

Shibori shapes.

Robyn B, pieces made using various methods

Deb P, piece made using resists and then stitches.

Poppies, poppies and even more poppies

In the middle of last year it was decided to create something to commemorate Rememberance day and also Anzac day using poppies created from fibres.
Dinie G., was the first one creating poppies, Annette took up the challenge and mustered help from all members of Fibres and also created the final installation.  This piece was part of the Umbrella Gallery members exhibition which was entitled 'Memory'.
Below are some photos of the final piece in situ at Umbrella Gallery and also now on the second floor of Federation Place, Townsville.
The piece is called 'we do remember them'.
There were 1450 poppies created all up, thanks to the members.

Re installed at Federation Place, second floor.