Harmony Hill Craft Group

Monday, 4 April 2016

Northern Ireland Embroidery Guild Exhibition

Some of us visited this exhibition, as it was at the Flowerfield Arts Centre in Portstewart and a long way to go for some of you ,I thought you might like to see some of the exhibits

for more photos go to this website

http://www.nieg.org.uk/exhibition2016/

Creative Crafty Ladies

Here is a little sample of what goes on on a Thursday morning

not just coffee and chat but some really beautiful work

Procion Dying

Today Judy has brought all her equipment for us to do some procion dying of threads

Equipment all laid out

only natural materials will take the dye successfully they need to be soaked in soda ash first as this will fix the dye

Judy showing some finished samples

Threads at various stages

Lovely messy morning with hopefully some great results
Thank you Judy, this wouldn't be possible without all your preparation.

http://prociondye.com/

this is a website that will give you more information on Procion dying

Monday, 15 February 2016

Deep Button Stool Masterclass

This Thursday we had a masterclass given by Majella

She gave us valuable hints and tips on how to deep button and pleat a footstool.

Majella, thank you it was a very professional and enjoyable demonstration I think we all learned a lot.

Tools of the trade

well finished legs and base for the foam

cutting the foam using a sharpened piece of copper piping

Placing the fabric into the holes to make the pleats

Lovely diamond pleats

Hard work on the hands using the staplegun

Nearly there

perfect finish

Here's one I did earlier.buttoned leather chair seat.

Monday, 8 February 2016

Tailor Maid

We had a very entertaining morning last Thursday with many a giggle and laugh.

Lucy Smith had brought along three glamorous models,

Bernie released by Vogue for the day , Norma from the gossip columns and Sylvia who brought a little royalty to the morning.

Lucy is an expert at creating new clothes from old. behind you can see half a plain wool coat.
Below is the other half made to look really sumptuous with the addition of a cut up cushion !!

Here we have our lovely model loaned to us for the day and Lucy is demonstrating how to change the length of an evening dress

going down ............

going down some more........

Our model ready for cocktails

Here we have the "Royal"look ably modeled by Sylvia,
Note the large sweater and tweed skirt!

Now see how much our model has changed
The jumper has given her a tabard and leg warmers and the skirt has become a cape .
She is already for the races

Thank you Sylvia

We are lucky to have Norma as she is usually
seen only on the hot gossip magazines

Lucy is converting a long tweed coat into three or four very different outfits.