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Sewing circle

Had a great day today sewing with two friends.   Its really inspiring and motivating working in a group, swapping ideas and looking at other peoples work.  One friend is making an apron and is using applique for the first time.  The final piece is looking really nice, fantastic for a first time.


My other sewer in arms is making a colourful background for a wall hanging and is playing with manipulating fabrics and laying pieces together with plain and pattern fabrics, some overlays and different textures.  the colours are lovely and I'm looking forward to seeing it develop.

Me - all I managed to do was cut out three elephants to embroider for the first segment of my american quilt - but not much else ha ha too busy gabbing and sticking my oar in with unsolicited advice and ideas - I will bondaweb the elephants onto some nice garish (hopefully) gold lame and then embroider them with bright Indian colours and add beads and sequins to make them very colourful and jolly.


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