July Meeting - Snakes!

The morning started with a talk from Angela about her favourite animal - SNAKES (although she does like other reptiles, as well) - and their place in history, religion, culture, art and medicine.  Angela's early interest in reptiles, and photography, was clearly demonstrated in her presentation and her enthusiasm continues to this day where she has used them as inspiration for her BA.  We admired lovely printed fabrics Angela had designed, along with some snakeskins, and were able to look at some sketchbooks she had produced as part of her degree work.

After the AGM and lunch, the workshop started with Angela showing us the stitched snake she has produced some time ago, the first piece she had designed.

Angela told us several ways in which we could create our snake using stuffed fabric tubes, twisted fabric, crotchet with multiple lengths of yarn and beads, using some of her resources and those we had brought. Here are some of the early results.

An enjoyable day with some techniques that could be used elsewhere. Thank you, Angela.