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Helen's finished piece. Her washer has been placed in off centre which makes a wonderful shadow on the wall.

Rita experimented with strips of fabric used on the wrong side and then added some extra colour.It made for great water with a brilliant sky.

Meredith's finished piece.

And a closeup.

We kept the our pedals to the metal and accomplished quite a lot in one day.

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Last Wednesday a group of four ladies came to spend the day with me. After touring my work we decided to do some curved piecing, free motion and put a washer in a hole. To finish it off we mounted our pieces on wooden frames.

Here is Joycelyn putting dome free motion machine embroidery in her work.

A closeup of Meredith's free motion circles. A great way to enhance the fabric and create some texture.

Joyelyn and Helen with their finished pieces.They are the top on the top row and they fit in nicely with my work.

Joycelyn's finished piece.

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A beautiful fall crisp weekend found us, Wendo, Pat and Cathy running a weekend retreat " Fibre Art With The Loose Threads" at the Opinicon Resort Hotel in Chaffey's Locks.
There was much fun had by all but I would like to highlight the work accomplished by the participants.

Jo-Anne found a creative way to fill the organic shape of the hole that she cut out of her piece.

Rosemary also worked out of the box.

Francis brought some of her work done on the embellisher and then added a hole to it.

Helga's painted fabric.

Helen's work in progress.

Pam's hand painted fabric with free motion embroidery.

A lesson on embellishing for Ann.

Janet working incognito , with the embellisher.

More painted fabric.

And a lesson on how to take care of your sewing machine by Eric Simkins from Kingston.

Although we were a motley gruop with varied interests, much learning ,sharing, and fun was had by all. With dinners prepared and no dishes to do it was sewing 24/3.

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Yesterday a group of ladies came from Kemptville to take a one day workshop on the double needle tree technique. Lou, Marion, Tracy and Colleen were able to get quite a lot done in a day.
Each person's individuality was evident in their work as they free motioned their tree in place.
A lovely day was had by all including me.
Well done!!!