2nd Day

This is how some of the work progressed today and below we are ready to relax with a bottle of wine!

Plas Tan y Bwlch

Some of the SerenTex members have come here to Plas Tan y Bwlch for 5 whole days, each one of us doing our own 'thing'. Here are some photos of some of the things I noticed going on last night. I will keep you all updated.


Here is Sue stressing on us to wear a 'respirator' when burning synthetics, her husband has just retired from the fire service and was horrified when he saw how she burnt her fabrics. So now she does it safely using this special mask. I wear an ordianary little mask, but I think it will be worth investing in one of those.

A drawing day with Mary (Spence)

We were all delighted to see Joan's 'Poodles' framed.

SerenTex went through a rather fallow patch over the last few months, due to illness, holidays, childminding and life in general. But yesterday made us realise what a wonderful group we belong to. We are like minded, get on very well together which is so important. We are all on the same wavelength and have a great time when we meet.


In November we are having an exhibition of some of our work at the Rhuddlan Library Gallery.

Yesterday we had a drawing workshop with Mary. It was fun, but we all learnt a lot from Mary's ideas, suggestions and advice. I think we will all be able to draw much better eyes from now on. Thanks Mary! I think one important lesson we all learnt, that even an hour's practice made us better artists. So the answer is to draw 'something' each day. We are going to have another drawing day soon. Below you can see some of the drawings we made of each other.



Mary is the one standing instructing Miriam and Rosemary. By the way, Miriam wants to say 'Hello' to her relatives in Australia! Thanks for looking at our blog.



This is the drawing Joan made of Gwyneth. Joan is the one standing behind Gwyneth.

More eye candy

These are all textile cards sent to Carol on her birthday. The top one also happens to have been inspired by Ton Schulten and was made by Janine.












Ann was fortunate enough to be able to go on a short course with Kefyn Burgess where they all saw how the expert does it. He has 2 embellisher machines, one is the Janome Expression and she wasn't sure what make the other one was, but it did have 7 needles. They had the opportunity of trying out both machines and they also used a hand tool. The work below was made by Ann during the course and they look very good, considering she doesn't have a machine and it was the first time she had used one.

Lots of Eye Candy

We had a wonderful SerenTex meeting again this afternoon, especially so for myself as I've had to miss a few recently.
There were more textile pieces inspired by Ton Schulten.


Here is Gwyneth's lovely work.



A close-up of the above work.



All the above is Carol's work which she brought in to show us, not quite completed yet, but looking lovely.

Blogger is painfully slow tonight, but it's probably my internet connection that is to blame. I will show more tomorrow.

Missed meeting

I'm afraid I had to miss another SerenTex meeting and it was a really special one too. It was Carol's birthday party at a local restaurant known for it's lovely meals. She had cards from everyone and a lovely bunch of flowers as you see from the picture. I'd made her an Art Journal which she was very pleased with.


I can see all those clean plates, so the food must have been up to it's usual standards.


This is one of the sweets, doesn't it look nice?
I must thank Mary for taking the photos so I could share a little of the fun. I think there are photos of the textile cards made for Carol and I shall blog them as soon as I can. I understand there was a lovely variety.

Eye candy

Here is a photo of some of my SerenTex friends at the meeting on Tuesday.


This very beautiful and useful bag was made by Rosemary who always has some new work to show us.


This is also Rosemary's work but she doesn't know what it's going to be yet, but it was inspired by the sea and sand.


Miriam says we have to wait and see what this one is going to be. It has stitching on it already and you will have to click it to see a closeup.


Here is another one by Rosemary. It was a batik she made years ago and is now stitching into, this is only a small corner of the work, but it's going to be really something.