Rectangles were this month’s theme. Anu started us off with some ideas she had used for garments – a lovely hat in a subtle grey and purple fair-isle, all mode with rectangles and using a drawstring to create the crown, then a stripey poncho which was widely admired.
A list of related websites:
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She then covered some ideas for bags found online – a windmill pattern and a Masa bag plus some others created specially. Margaret had tried some of these ideas and showed us the results which were very intricate looking but simply made from rectangles folded in clever origami ways to make 3-D shapes.
Various other members had brought along garments and other items made up from rectangular pieces.
Anthea showed us two jumpers she had made from strips of rectangular fair-isle together with some very thin strips to give a rolled effect to decorate the seams. These had been well used over a number of years as they were warm and cosy.
After coffee, we had great fun getting into groups and trying to construct garments and other items from some rectangular pieces that members had brought along.
It was a very creative evening and we all enjoyed ourselves.
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Here are all the ideas we came up with – we used pegs and pins to fix the garments together – just to give an idea of what is possitle.
Show and tell
Items were brought along for the show and tell from Barbara who had made several pairs of pretty baby bootees and a baby cardigan. Gill R brought a pretty hat and Gillian made a Fiddle Muff for our charity collection – more of that next time. Also see link to apattern for a chunky machine on the home page.
Show and tell – Barbara’s booties, #1 |
Show and tell – Barbara’s booties, #2 |
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