February Meeting

Jane gave a wonderful class on the joys of Kumihimo. We expected to see this embellishing projects for years to come!

A few goodies off the IFF Table from the morning meeting.

Somebody finished their scissor fob from January!

Stitch In Public Day

We were extremely fortunate this year to get some inside help and arranged to have our Stitch in Public Day on February 3rd at the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Our new friend, Dwane, oops, I mean Joseph Henry, the first director of the Smithsonian, holding our sign. 

We talked to lots of people from all across the globe. School groups on tours, Japanese tourists, British tourists, museum volunteers who came to ooh and ahh for us. It was a satisfying day. Thanks to our Oatlands members who found time to come and stitch in public!

 

I found this sweet child's embroidery frame on display in the main hall. It's from the 19th century and it's called the Little Embroiderer."

Ocean City

Some familiar faces from Oatlands. We're at the hotel at Mid-Atlantic Region's Camp Wanna-Stitch. It was a lovely, long weekend with lots accomplished. 

Yes. We were the rowdy group. 

Next year, consider joining us. This was my first year attending and I'll be going every year. There even was a finish or two to share with everyone!

January Meeting

We had a lovely meeting day in January. Sunny and a bit cold, but no snow and that's always a good thing! 

Lots of clever things on the IFF Table like this sewing set:

Anne ran a quick business meeting and the new board was elected without incident.

More pretties from the IFF Table:

Donna P. was our teacher for the Mehitabel Scissor Fob. She brought some of her beading to inspire us all to greater things!

January Meeting Tomorrow

Will update tomorrow after the meeting. Look for photos of all our fun.
 

Holiday Luncheon

My apologies for getting these posted so late. My photos were on the desktop and I've only had access to the laptop. 

I'm going to do this in two parts. The next post will happen in January when I will highlight our speaker and the wonderful things she brought to show us. I would do them all right now, but apparently everyone in the neighborhood is home on Christmas night and online eating up the bandwith. 


First up - In February Jane will teaching us about the Japanese art of kumihimo. She made her cord for our hardanger ornament that Marty taught us in October.

A few of our mystery samplers from 2011. 
 

Our table full of IFFs was truly impressive at the Holiday Luncheon. Here's some of the wonderful work that was completed and shown.

Anne leading us through the business side of our meeting. 
 

Members who completed IFFs this year and were in attendance. Minus Anne and me - the photographer. Congratulations, ladies. We make some spectacular needlework!
 

Holiday ornaments from the exchange.
 

Some of our Mystery Sampler stitchers with their finished products. 

 

Agecroft Sweetbag Class

On October 8th, a very enthusiastic group of us met to begin the project that is the Agecroft Sweetbag, which was featured on the cover of the March/April 2011 Needlearts magazine. 

Betsy had volunteered to lead us in this endeavor. We diligently got down to business learned how to do the reverse chain stitch, detached buttonhole and spiral trellis. 

At lunch some of us walked down the street to Red, Hot, and Blue and had ourselves a lovely and lively lunch!

After lunch we learned how to make Barrel Buttons, a wonderful extra that Betsy taught us, and discussed the finishing including a review of hemstitching. 

Here's to seeing many of these lovely bags finished and on display at our meetings!