June 2010 – Melanie Makes Meringues

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

Teaching Needlework at the Homeless Day Centre

I have been teaching needlework at the Salvation Army Homeless Day Centre on a Wednesday afternoon for about two months now. It's quite a small group and so far I have only had four ladies at the most. We started by making felt lavendar heart-shaped sachets.I teach one technique/project per…

Violet

Meet Violet! I made her for my June facebook giveaway. She has her own bag and a lovely dolly quilt to snuggle up under. One of my friends from the Seven Sisters Quilt Group gave me the little triangle blocks when she was culling her fabric stash and I only…

Home Improvements

Our building project has come on marvellously and it is quite fantastic not to be living in a building site anymore. We are well in to the decoration phase now. The car park at the front has been slabbed with beautiful Indian stone. It's immense! I got this tin bath…

Committed to Cloth – Session 5

The month of May brought breakdown printing. We did this technique as it was a lovely, warm day and the screens need to dry before you use can use them.Screen being prepared.Dribbly screen.Demonstration of breakdown printing. Students screens drying. My breakdown printing ready for batching, rinsing and washing.Screen printing spirals.Beautiful…

Melanie Makes Meringues

Melanie Makes Meringues

Cutting + sticking + sewing + baking. My creative life.

Month: June 2010

Teaching Needlework at the Homeless Day Centre

Violet

Home Improvements

Committed to Cloth – Session 5

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