[MITCHAM] Adelaide: 2nd round of Paper Gift Card

Mitcham is Adelaide's newest Brown Owl chapter. They will be repeating their Origami Secret Gift Card workshop using lovely delightful Amy Butler paper!!!To get involved in the fun here are the details:


When: Nov 7th 1:30 til 4pm
Where: Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham
Cost: $4 per person


To join in you'll need to bring:

Pencil, eraser and ruler
Scissors or paper cutter
Blu glue stick
Old plastic loyalty or credit card
Fine artline or gel pen- your choice of colour
and $3 to cover supplies (Double sided printed paper, 2 x plain card for inserts, 1m of ribbon, 1 charm, 1 sheet of printed sayings for you to use and an instruction sheet)

To RSVP add a comment to the post!

We'll see you there x
Lianne & Julie (for Gallery One)

Owl Broochs with the Adelaide Owls

Golly Gee our Adelaide meetings are good fun - They always leave me feels ever so happy and totally inspired. Last night we all met for BYO or to make owl brooches.

We used a pattern from jojoebi to make our little brooches - she's got a great tutorial that is worth a look.

On the way out a group of us spotted the most amazing bike... couldn't help but take a few photos! How cool!

Brown Owls Canberra - October report!

We had a good turnout for the Canberra Brown Owls on a cold wet Sunday, and we welcomed our newest Brown Owl - Cathy from Adelaide Brown Owls - to the nest!

The October meeting had crept up rather suddenly on the prefects (oops!) and given them a right royal fright, so they decided to hold another BYO afternoon! I love BYO afternoons - you always have a good time seeing what others are making, and that is inspiration in itself!!

Cass prettied up a little t-shirt. Bron got clever with pinwheel brooches. Michelle L worked on crocheting a sock. Cristy and Michelle W worked on dolls.

Cathy made a beautiful bead and wire brooch.

Naomi and Lea made stencilled bags and felted creations, respectively. Topped off with some lovely food, coffee and tea and the usual fantastic conversation, it was a fabulous afternoon of crafting and friendship!

Next month we are meeting on Sunday 22 November and Michelle (that's me) will be teaching us (that's you) how to applique, both needleturn and blanket stitched. More on that in a couple of weeks though.

Gocco with Sydney!

The very best thing about owls is that we learn and share and help each other. Don't you agree? Tonight, Sydney Owls were lucky to have a gocco demo by Lisa and Manu. Jen brought a third gocco along, so everyone got a chance to try some gocco printing. We printed on paper. We printed on fabric. We even printed on noodle boxes. We had an amazing night.








I was in the back room, so most of the designs show were created by Lisa of The Red Thread. But both rooms were had quite the buzz! Rockets, stars, birds and ornaments. Probably the biggest hit of the night was the gocco stamper. I heard rumours of gals planning to concoct their own!

It was another terrific one for the Sydney gals. We've got quite a few demos to round out the year and roll into the next! Start clearing your calenders --

Early November - Tatting, Leichhardt
Mid November - Softies for Mirabel, Lane Cove
Early December - Owls Christmas Party and Secret Swap
January - Design Your Own Name Badge
Coming Soon - Bookbinding with Michelle, Brown Owls field trip and more!

Adelaide Owls - Owl Brooches or BYO

Time to announce the next Adelaide Owls meeting at the Box Factory. Come join us for brooch making or BYO.

When: Oct 28th 7pm til 9:30pm
Where: Box Factory - Adelaide Community Centre, 59 Regent St South Adelaide
Cost: $2 donation to the Box Factory

Numbers: We have room for 25 Owls - the first 25 to RSVP are IN! You need to comment ONLY once when you RSVP with your name and initial (eg Cherry G!). Please only RSVP for one person on your comment to keep it fair.

Theme: We’ll be making Japanese Owl Brooches using the tutorial posted on ‘A little bit of this, a little bit of that’.


To join in the fun you need to bring:

• two pieces of different fabric 15cms x 15cms (at least -doesn't need to be exact )
• thread to match your fabric
• two small buttons for eyes
• one hand sewing needle

For $2 we will provide wool for feet (black/brown), wool needles, stuffing, sticks, brooch backs and pattern for each person.

Let us know in your comment if you’d like to join in with the project.

You might like to check out jojoebi’s esty shop for some fabric inspiration.

As always bring along your crafted creations, ‘zines and books to show off, too.

Cathy, Tracey & Cherry

Adelaide: Mitcham papercraft-ing!!!

Hello!

Adelaide launched their second chapter of Brown Owls last night in Mitcham!

We had 9 owls {was great to see some new faces too} and had an lovely time playing with the most beautiful double sided Amy Butler paper (I know! Who knew she made paper too?). With some clever origami skills, paper punches, guillotining and ribbon tying we whipped up gift card holders!


Keep your eyes peeled for the Mitcham Owl meet dates and workshops below:

* Sat Nov 7th - Secret Gift Card (repeated workshop for those who couldn't make it on Tues)
* Tues Nov 17th - Pin Cushion using vintage cup, saucer and fabric
* Sat Dec 5th - Pin Cushion (repeated workshop for those who couldn't make it on Tues)
* Tues Dec 15th - Xmas Table Decorations, nibbles & champagne!

Canberra BYO

Hello Canberra owls!

Eeeek, what happened to October???
It's already time for our next crafty get-together!

Our next meeting will be THIS Sunday October 25 from 2 pm, at the Downer Community Centre (enter from Frencham St, Downer).

We had such a blast seeing what our clever owls get up to in their own crafty time, that we are BYO-crafting again this month, so, you should bring along what ever you fancy!

In case you're stuck for Crafty Inspiration, here are links to five of our favourite cute projects that have popped up on craftzine and whip-up lately:

fabric butterfly
corner bookmark
button & wire brooch
jewelled t-shirt
pinwheel pin

You should also bring $6 for room hire, and, if you would like, something to share for afternoon tea =D

And don't forget - if there's something from a previous meeting that you've finished at home we'd love to see it too! =D

Please RSVP in the comments, and pop any questions you have there too!

Ooh, and next month the lovely Michelle is going to show us how to applique!

xo b

Brisbane Brown Owls are turnin' Japanese...

(Ningyogami by Bel and Julia)

Well...not really but we had loads of fun learning how to make Japanese Paper Dolls called Ningyogami which, once you get the knack of are surprisingly easy and quite addictive.

A big thankyou goes out to our resident expert on all things Japanese, Melanie for teaching us and for sharing all of her amazing Japanese paper with us, not to mention her vast knowledge of Japanese fertility festivals.....must get some of that candy for our next meet!!

(Craft, snacks and lots of laughter at Brisbane Brown Owls)

See you all next time.

Melbourne - Tuesday 27th October - Borders/Gloria Jean's Meet - BYO craft and book browsing

Let's meet at Borders Carlton for some book perusing and some coffee and some crafting too!

When : Tuesday 27th October
Time : 8.00pm
Where : Borders Carlton (at gloria jean's end of store)
Bring : A few dollars to buy a coffee and something to craft on with

See you there : please RSVP here if you will be coming!

xx

Brown Owls Mitcham are here!

Big news tonight! The Adelaide Brown Owls now have a second venue! Yes that means twice the craft, twice the fun, double the meetings.

To get involved here are the details:

When: Oct 20th 7pm til 9:30pm
Where: Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham
Cost: $4 per person

The project at the Mitcham meeting will be an Origami Secret Gift Card.

To join in you'll need to bring:

• Pencil, eraser and ruler
• Scissors or paper cutter
• Blu glue stick
• Old plastic loyalty or credit card
• Fine artline or gel pen- your choice of colour
• and $3 to cover supplies (Double sided printed paper, 2 x plain card for inserts, 1m of ribbon, 1 charm, 1 sheet of printed sayings for you to use and an instruction sheet)

To RSVP add a comment to the post!

Lianne & Julie (for Gallery One)

ps - Check back soon for more dates for Adelaide Brown Owl meetings at Mitcham.

Sydney Owls Meeting Next Week - Gocco Demo

Hello lovely Owls,

Our next meeting is Thursday 22nd October at our Lane Cove venue: Centre House.

Manu and I (Lisa) are bringing our Goccos and Gocco Stamper for a demo and the chance for everyone to do some printing.



We will have 4 designs to make screens from and you can choose which of them you'd like to print - there'll be something Owly, something Christmasy, and... a couple of others, yet to be designed. Any requests?

Please bring paper, cards, fabric, or whatever you'd like to print onto. Depending on how many of us there are you might get to do around 40 prints (it's pretty quick), so come prepared! We should probably all BYO some craft too, and some snacks would be good as well.

We'll also ask for a few dollars each to cover the costs of Gocco materials, and don't forget that have to pay for the venue (about $5 each, depending on the number of people).

So, RSVP on this post. Hope you can make it!

Brisbane Owls RSVP for Ningyogami!

Pretty dolls all in a row courtesy Melanie

Brisbane Owls: It's time to RSVP for Ningyogami - you don't want to miss this one!

Date: Sunday 18 October

Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm

Venue: Same as usual. Recreation Room in Building 7 of Roma Street Parklands Apartments, Parkland Blvd, Brisbane. The Rec Room is on the ground floor of building 7. Building 7 is the end apartment block furthest away from the City.

Note on parking: The Multicultural Festival is on Sunday in the Parklands so parking will be difficult. You may be able to find a park nearby in Spring Hill but it's probably best to get dropped off or get a bus or train to Roma Street (take the Parklands exit at the station). The Festival is loads of fun so if you would like to go after Brown Owls we can lock your crafting stuff in the Rec Room and you can pick it up later in the day.

Craft-along Project: Ningyogami
Melanie has kindly offered to teach us how to make ningyogami (cute little Japanese paper dolls).
What to bring: A pair of scissors and $5 for instructions and a little kit of paper.
If you would like to make your ningyogami into cards, bring your own card stock or Melanie will have some available on the day for purchase at wholesale price. You might also like to bring a cutting knife and glue to make your card.

Or BYO craft. If you need to use a sewing machine let us know in the comments section so we can have one set up ready to go (you'll need to bring your own thread and bobbin).

Tea and coffee provided. Feel free to show off your baking skills by bringing a plate for morning tea :)

The weather is heating up so if you'd like a dip in the pool bring swimming gear, towel and sunscreen.

Please RSVP by leaving a comment on this post by Thursday 15 October.

See you then!

Adelaide Craft and Fabric Swap - lucky dip style!

Come join us for Craft and Fabric Swap - lucky dip style!

Photo borrow from Fii - thanks!

When: Oct 14th 7pm til 9:30pm

Where: Box Factory - Adelaide Community Centre, 59 Regent St South Adelaide

Cost: $2 donation to the Box Factory

Numbers: We have room for 27 Owls - the first 27 to RSVP are IN! You need to comment ONLY once when you RSVP with your name and initial (eg Cherry G!). Please only RSVP for one person on your comment to keep it fair.

Fabric Swap (if you want to)!

• Bring - up to 5 (FIVE!) pieces of fabric to swap.
• Each piece of fabric must measure at least 50cm X 55cm (or 'fat quarter' size)
• Fabric needs to be of the sort of quality YOU would like to receive!
• Can be vintage or NEW! Up to you!
• You need to wrap your fabric up so we can't see it (we're doing the swap lucky dip style) - wrap it in newspaper if you please. Wrap EACH PIECE separately.

Craft! BYO current project. Don't have a project? No worries at all, just come along to the evening and be inspired!

Please bring along your crafted creations, ‘zines and books to show off too - we love to see them!

See you there,

Xx Cherry, Tracey & Cathy

Bowerbird Bazaar in Adelaide

Just a quick reminder that the Bowerbrid Bazaar is on in Adelaide this weekend.

Invitation by Naomi

Certainly worth visiting!

See you at the Queens Theatre, Playhouse Lane from 10 -5 on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free (now there is no excuse).

If you are heading along and would like to meet up with other crafty folk leave us a comment.

Launceston's Brown Owls October Meet

Last month's Brown Owls meet was an absolute corker. The lovely Isis lead us in bookbinding ... and some amazing books were constructed. A big thank you Isis xx
All right Lonnie Owls. Get your craft on and get to October's Brown Owls Meet

When: Monday 19 October @ 7.30pm
Where: Seworld, 88 Elizabeth Street, Launceston
What: BYO craft project.

If anyone is interested in running a session for November - please pop your hand up at the meet or post a comment here. Not a member yet? Please just RSVP below and come along on the night! Hoot!