Beautiful Bunting and Summer School Projects

Another Embroiderers Guild Branch 'Challenge' was to make a line of Bunting where each flag was a stitched work that represented the member's birth month.
Here a couple of flags that I managed to snap before I had to head off and grab lunch.
These Birthday Month Pennants were stitched by members of the Rochdale Branch.

A jolly Snowman with icicle beads, what a great idea! for January followed by pretty flowers in February with button centres. Who doesn't love using buttons in this way? :-)

 Here we have two pennants for May - Needle point above, beautiful colours and beautifully stitched; and below, are gorgeous butterflies. Nice work.

Quite a few people also brought in their finished projects that were  started at the recent Summer School held at Waddow Hall in Clitheroe. Again I just managed to photograph a couple as some people left after the morning business session was concluded taking their work with them as they had travelled a long way to be with us which was much appreciated.

The fish above, is on a background made in the class taught by Kim Thittichai, see post and this one,  to look at more backgrounds made with paint and a fusible textile. Fabulous embroidery and what a lovely way to use up a bit of lace as air bubbles in the water?
You may have seen another Heavenly Bluebird stitched from the same kit by Nicola Jarvis but this one had its beginnings at the Summer School, see post here.

Its a really lovely design to embroider and as you can see stitches up beautifully as does the Robin also worked in Crewel wools, below. Simply gorgeous.

To see more lovely stitched goodness look out for the next 4 posts coming up soon. Thank you to all the talented embroiderers for sharing their work with us.