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Wet Felting workshop: August 11th

Introduction to Wet Felting

Sunday August 11 from 10:00 am – 3:00pm

Brickton Community Hall, 12062 Highway 1, Brickton

Instructor: Leslie McFarlane

In this workshop, you will learn to make great felt by implementing such fundamentals as even layout, shrinkage rates, working with a resist and adding a design layer while creating three small projects. You will learn the basic skills you need to move on to more involved projects.

Contact Leslie at lesliemcfarlane56@gmail.com to register or for more details.

Wet felting workshop
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World Embroidery day demo: July 30th

Tuesday, July 30th, is World Embroidery Day and we are going to celebrate!
From 1 to 3 pm we will be out in force to demo all kinds of stitching.

The Courtyard store at 212 St-George St in Annapolis Royal has graciously accepted to host us outside if the weather is fine.

If the weather is not fine, we will gather in the market square under the protection of the stalls.

Please bring a project to work on and some pieces for show.

If you can bring your own chair, that would be wonderful.

We would love to see you there.

World Embroidery Day began in 2011 with the Swedish Embroiderer’s guild. You can read the manifesto here with this link.

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Kay denHartog embroidery

 

 

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Saturday Snips – July 13th

This month’s member gathering will take place at the MacDonald Museum on Saturday, July 13th from 1 to 4 pm.

You will be able to show and tell your latest projects, chat with like-minded fibre enthusiasts and also visit the wonderful SOFAAR members’ exhibit on now at the Museum.

The Saturday Snips will take  place on the third floor. And yes, there IS an elevator.

Hope to see you on Saturday at the Museum!

Come and see how much more Rachael has done on her peacock…

Rachael’s stunning peacock in progress.
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Come see this exhibit!

The SOFAAR Art of Fibre exhibit held its opening on July 6th and there was a lot of beautiful work to admire.

Please come out and see for yourselves. The show is on at the MacDonald Museum in Middleton until the first week of September.

Here is enticement to come and see the exhibit in person:

Exhibit committee chair Céleste stands in front of a Penny Berens piece.
Admiring the work.
Such colours in this beautiful variation on a Drunkard’s path quilt by Kay den Hartog.
Over 183,000 fine cross stitches in this entirely stitched piece by Ray Breton.
Penny eyes the eyes thread painted by Christine Igot
Gail Robertson’s crocheted coral reef.
Over 5,000 different fabrics in this postage stamp quilt by Shirley Bent.
Ethan stands to the right of his grandmother Brenda’s felted piece.
Close up of Rachael Ryan’s work.