March Meeting

An interesting workshop was held by Gayle De'Angelis from Warburton.   Gayle has a business called Retied Attire were she makes wearable art out of ties and scarves.   This was a hands on workshop where we all had such fun.  Greg Carolyn's husband was on hand to video all the goings on.  This video will be available for loan from our library.
Gayle works out of 'The Sheila's Shed' 6 Ferndale Rd Wardburton Melway Map 290 F2
web site www.retiedattire.com.

Left.  Helen modelling a waistcoat

Right The back of waistcoat

left.  this a bag folded out flat.

right.  the flap folded over

Left  Sarah modelling a long coat

Right  the front of the coat.

left. A coat with a special name which I forgot the name of.

Right.   a pinny for a stitcher.

Right Rose modelling the back of a different waistcoat

 Right Rose showing the front of the waistcoat

 Left Gayle arranging a coast on Sarah

 Left more adjustment necessary

 Right.  Hands on part of the workshop.  We choose our own scarves and ties.  With the help of one of dressmaker models that Gayle had thoughtfully bought along Sarah and I worked on this cape made from 6 scarves and 2 ties.

 Right. The back of the cape Sarah and I worked on.

 Raewyn working on hers and Carolyn's masterpiece.

Left. Carolyn showing it on the model

Report from February meeting

Finally I am able to do this report only a few days until our next meeting which is on this Sunday March 26th the meeting will be held at the Oakleigh Hall Drummond St Oakleigh.  Committee at 10 a.m general members at 11a.m until 3.30p.m.


The guest speaker for March was Felicity Hopkins with a wonderful display of her work and her story through Art quilts. 
www.textileseahorse.blogspot.com  
Felicity did email me a file but I can't work out how to load it here yet.

Some photos from Show and Tell when you click on the photos to enlarge the description is at the top left of the photo.

February Meeting

The meeting for February will be held on  Sunday February 27th at 11.00am to 3.00pm at the Oakleigh Community Hall, Drummond St Oakleigh.
It is the hall adjacent to the Library.  (When standing facing the library it is the hall on the left hand side.)
Plenty of parking, short distance from Oakleigh Station, Monash Freeway of Warrigal Road.

This may change as we are trying to find a venue free on the 4th Saturday of the month, SO WATCH this SPACE.  As of today Feb 12th we have had no luck in acquiring a venue for the 4th Saturday.
I have sent invitations to those who have attended the meetings so far and left their email addresses to join our Yahoo Group, if you receive one of these invites from fairiesrme that is me Fran Cox.

Guest Speaker for February meeting is Felicity Hopkins
http://www.textileseahorse.blogspot.com
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BYO mug and lunch and we meet in the room upstairs.
$5.00 entry fee.  There will be a raffle.

January Meeting

The first meeting of ATASDA Vic will be held on SUNDAY January 23rd at Oakleigh Community Centre Drummond St. Oakleigh from 10 am.
BYO lunch and mug.  Teas and coffee provided.
See you all there.

November Meeting

We were not able to book the room at the Box Hill Arts Centre for the November meeting.
We have decided that November should be a committee and planning meeting which will be held at 2Doors Down 159 Fitzroy St St. Kilda at 1.00 pm.   Come along with ideas backed up by photos/pamphlets/webpages etc for artists who you would like to learn from.  Any member who would like to join the committee from 2.30 o'clock onwards for a Christmas drink is welcome.

October Victorian ATASDA Textile Art Meeting

The October meeting of our new Victorian ATASDA group was attended by 25 ladies.  Artist and designer Neroli Henderson gave an informative talk on the inspirations and techniques behind her unique art quilts using a slide slow and many of her original works to demonstrate.

More photos to be posted over the next few days. 

Discussion was held during the meeting reguarding what techniques members would like to see featured in workshops during 2011.  If you have any suggestions please add them to the comment section below.

We are also looking for books to add to our Victorian library for members to borrow. If anyone has any textile based books or magazines they would like to donate to our proposed library please let us know or bring them along to the next group get together in January. Any fibre or textile related books or magazines will be welcomed!

Some interesting items were shown and talked about in Show and tell:

Jenni Strachan's colourful notebook covered with paper serviettes and embellishments

QAYG bag made with scraps embellished with various stitching, ties etc. by Kristen Delandra

Linda Steele made this after a discussion on Monet with Waverley Art Quilt group. Hand dyed, variegated background fabric with strips of green layered to indicate waves and leaves overlaid with tulle and machine stitched.

Felted badge made by Cas embellished with a small flower

One of Virginia Fricker's felting test pieces with foreground created with a needle felting machine. 

 If you are a financial member of ATASDA and live in Victoria you are welcome to join our Yahoo Group by sending a request to the following link.
ATASDA_Vic-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

October Meeting finalised

 

Details of the first meeting of the Victorian Group of ATASDA.