Member work

Member work

Tuesday 11 April 2017

Leamington Member's Pop-Up Gallery - postponed

Unfortunately, this event has had to be postponed to a later date.  Please keep an eye open for the artists during Warwickshire Open Studios fortnight in June.


Dear Friends
I would be delighted if you could pop in to see me and five other artists at:
Future Rabbit Studio Pop Up Gallery and Shop

at 10 Grove Street, Leamington Spa
We are open on
Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd April
from 11-4pm
Best wishes
Fiona Metcalfe
www.fionametcalfe.co.uk

JETS Creations

Over the months of February, March and April JETS have been busy making an egg and a creature that hatched out of the egg.

In the February workshop the girls and some of the helpers glued scraps of organza over a blown-up balloon.  In the following workshop the balloons were popped and the eggs were embroidered and sequins added.

Then the creatures were cut out of felt and embroidered.  These are just a few of the creations.



The original idea was for all the girls to make a bird - but some of them had other ideas -


and we had a fish, a snake and a butterfly.  


We didn't have quite enough time, and the girls will finish their creatures at home. We are looking forward to seeing their beautiful completed creatures.

Sunday 9 April 2017

Spring Members' Day

Our Members' Day continued the 'Seasons' theme that we started last autumn.  (1st April - didn't notice any April fools, though!)


Our Programme Secretaries, Gill and Lucy, demonstrated some image transfer techniques, which we tried out - with varying degrees of success - to transfer spring-related images onto fabric. It was fun, and provided useful techniques for future use.



Gill had brought in some ready-made examples to get us on track:




Then we got on with some stitching, nattering, enjoying a lovely bring-and-share lunch, and generally having a very enjoyable day.





Our thanks to Gill and Lucy for the effort they put into the demo's, gathering resources and sharing their materials so generously, and generally making the day a success.

Progress so far: one version of Spring (left), Autumn (centre) and Winter (right)