Canberra Brown Owls - July Meet Up

Hey Brown Owls!

Gosh it's July already (only one more month of winter to go, YAY!!) and once again all the kids are back at school.  So do you remember back in February we made little needle books to get ourselves organised?  Well, now it's time to add the next  perfect little addition to your craft kit.  Let's make scissor keepers/pouches.  A few ideas you can sew without a machine (of course, if you need to bring along a sewing machine - no problem!)

Of course, feel free to bring along some of your projects - bring along your UFOs, new projects, old projects or even something new.  

Need inspiration?   

How bring and cheerful is this cute scissor pouch from 'Feeling Stitchy'?

http://www.feelingstitchy.com/2014/08/tutorial-tuesday_26.html

 Step up your embroidery with this scissor pouch from 'Sew Little Fabric' and follow the links for the downloadable pattern xx

http://sewlittlefabric.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-felt-scissor-keeper-pattern.html

A really simple Scissors Pouch for your young ones to make from Albion Guild!

http://albiongould.com/felt-scissors-pouch-diy/

And if you have enough time, why not crochet a little Scissor Keeper so you know you'll never mix up your scissors!  (note this one is a paid pattern) xx

https://www.lovecrochet.com/strawberry-scissor-keeper-crochet-pattern-by-sandra-paul

 
 Meet Up Details:

Saturday  28 July 2018

From 1pm - 4pm

RSVP over at our Canberra Brown Owls Facebook Event page

 https://www.facebook.com/events/558999914496786/

 

Venue Details:

This month we're meeting in the Community Room located at the  Belconnen Fire Station, on Bardi Place in Macquarie (or you might know it's along Bindubi Street, Aranda (not far from Jamison shops).

 
Please park in the public parking area located on the side of the Fire Station. Apologies for stating the obvious, but please do not access the fire station from their main entry.

Access to the Community Room is by a pass which we have organised. The community room also has kitchenette and bathroom facilities.

Canberra Brown Owls - May 2018

Hey Brown Owls!

So Craft Alive came to Canberra this month and it was just fabulous!  And what I love about Craft Alive is their featured artists and this month we were awed by the wonderful Amy Kallissa and Mandy from Sew Quirky.

So let's be inspired by Amy Kallissa's gorgeous work this month (and we will be inspired by Sew Quirky later this year).  Click on their links for even more info!

Anyways, Amy Kallissa had on display gorgeous felt embroidered embellishments, from her faces to beautifully stitched flower motifs:

Source: https://www.facebook.com/amykallissa/photos/a.672028426213255.1073741827.402769733139127/1851715414911211/?type=3&theater

  All you need is a small sheet of wool felt (1mm), your favourite colours of embroidery cottons, needle, embroidery hoop and your imagination.

 

Looking for something a little bit easier (with instructions and pattern?) these flowers are just gorgeous.  

 

 

Source: http://bugsandfishes.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/3-things-to-make-with-felt-flowers.html

(Note: See https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/571069328/felt-poppies-tutorial-and-poppy for the paid pattern for these poppies)

Or for something completely different to the flowers but just as colourful and gorgeous, try an embroidered mandela.  Click on the link below for the pattern and tutorial.

https://www.thevillagehaberdashery.co.uk/blog/2018/free-rainbow-orbit-embroidery-pattern-from-mandalas-to-embroider-by-carina-envoldsen-harris

Of course, feel free to bring along some of your projects - bring along your UFOs, new projects, old projects or even something new.  

 
Need inspiration?

Meet Up Details:

Saturday  19 May 2018

From 1pm - 4pm

RSVP over at our Canberra Brown Owls Facebook Event page

 

Venue Details:

This month we're meeting in the Community Room located at the  Belconnen Fire Station, on Bardi Place in Macquarie (or you might know it's along Bindubi Street, Aranda (not far from Jamison shops).

 
Please park in the public parking area located on the side of the Fire Station. Apologies for stating the obvious, but please do not access the fire station from their main entry.

Access to the Community Room is by a pass which we have organised. The community room also has kitchenette and bathroom facilities.

Canberra Brown Owls - February 2018

Hey Brown Owls!

So it's now February, all the kids are back at school and we're all starting to settle into the year ahead and dream of next year's summer holidays!  So to get our year organised, how about making cute little needle books.  The perfect little addition to your craft kit.  Of course, feel free to bring along some of your projects - bring along your UFOs, new projects, old projects or even something new.  

Need inspiration?   

Image source: https://www.arabesque-scissors.com/2018/01/liberty-society-kantha-stitch-along-part-2/

This is the needle book I plan to make, a cute little butterfly book the perfect size for my craft kit! Click on this link:

http://wildolive.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/project-butterfly-needle-book.html

Need more details? How cute is this little  needle book from Nana Company?  Click on this link below for all the details:  

http://nanacompany.typepad.com/nanacompany/2011/10/needlebook-tutorial-by-nanacompany.html

Or this cute little needle book from the Stitch Craft Create Magazine.  Just click on this link.

http://www.sccmag.com/felt-needle-book-craft-project/

 This one is from one of my most favourite Embroidery designers - LiliPopo.  Just click on this link.

 

http://www.lilipopo.co.uk/2017/12/embroidered-butterfly-needlebook-tutorial-and-free-pattern-part-one.html

Or how about this cute little Letter Needle Book.  Just click on this link which takes you to an archived web page, but the tutorial is still there!!

 

http://kellyrachel.com/blog/2010/04/12/little-letter-needle-book-tutorial/

And if you need more inspiration, here's a whole bunch! http://thepatchsmith.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/

Meet Up Details:

Saturday  17 February 2018

From 1pm - 4pm

RSVP over at our Canberra Brown Owls Facebook Event page

Venue Details:

This month we're meeting in the Community Room located at the  Belconnen Fire Station, on Bardi Place in Macquarie (or you might know it's along Bindubi Street, Aranda (not far from Jamison shops).

 
Please park in the public parking area located on the side of the Fire Station. Apologies for stating the obvious, but please do not access the fire station from their main entry.

Access to the Community Room is by a pass which we have organised. The community room also has kitchenette and bathroom facilities.

Canberra Brown Owls - August 2016

So, here's another post.  Wow!  I'm doing great!!

So for our Canberra Brown Owls - August meet, I thought it might be a lovely idea to start thinking about Spring.  It was only a few weeks away, sure what could go wrong!!  Well, the weather to start.  It was an awful cold, wet and stormy day in Canberra. Luckily we were toasty warm inside the Magpies Club in Kippax.  Our home for the next few meet ups!

So our theme: was to flirt the flamingo and party the pineapple. This month we're going tropical. 

I had chosen two little projects using spring colours: but we only had time for the gorgeous little felt flowers from the August issue of Mollie Makes.

Flowers in the making.

Super fun and easy to make, so they soon started multiplying!!

 

Nic had show and tell.  Good luck on your 100 blocks in 100 days!

Barb made wonderful work of her hexie Christmas Tree!

See you next month!

Carolyn & Nic xx