Brown Owls Perth (Bayswater) 2013 Update

Firstly, sorry for not regularly updating you all on what has been happening in WA!  It is tricky to make sure every information source is updated properly for each so I thought I would do one big post on our group for 2013 nice and early...

Anyone who is interested in coming along to our Perth-based group might like to join our Facebook group .  We have found the events calendar on here very useful and its also a handy space to ask questions and show-off what you might be working on!

We are also on Instagram - #brownowlsperth

BROWN OWLS PERTH FAQs

Venue

Meeting Room at the Bayswater Family Centre - corner of Murray and Crowther streets, Bayswater.  This facility is used by other hirers too but we always stick a sign on the door for the meeting room!

Dates

Our meetings are always held on the third Sunday of each month.  Dates for up-coming meetings are:

20 January 2013

17 February 2013

17 March 2013

21 April 2013

19 May 2013

16 June 2013

21 July 2013

18 August 2013

15 September 2013

20 October 2013

17 November 2013

15 December 2013

Time

Meetings start at 2pm and finish at about 4pm.

Format

We are a pretty casual group and mostly we run BYO craft meetings.  Most people coming along find it easier to just bring something they're working on - it also gives people a chance to work on slow-burn projects that they wouldn't normally get to at home! We have knitters, crocheters, embroiders, cross-stitchers, hand quilters and we get a fair bit of paper-based crafts too.

Every now and then we will have someone from the group run a small workshop on something that they're particularly good at.  We have had crochet, knitting, pattern-making and mosaic meetings before - but those meetings are quite flexible in that there are often people working on their own things as well.

Cost

We don't have a membership fee but we do ask for a gold coin donation to help with venue hire.

Anything else I should bring?

Sometimes members will bring a plate or packet of something yummy to share but there is no obligation or scheduled food roster.  Everybody leads busy lives and we don't want to add another commitment.  If you would like to bring something along it will be welcomed but if not, no matter!

Do I need to tell anyone I am coming?

Nope!  You can just turn-up.  If you want to check-in or have questions, feel free to email - shodgson(at)westnet(dot)com(dot)au or silverthreadsofhappiness(at)gmail(dot)com

Brunswick Brown Owls Christmas Party

• Brunswick Brown Owls 

• CHRISTMAS PARTY

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  Photo by Shelly Strazis here

• Let's celebrate all our achievements, friendships and craft ships!
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• Bring a plate of goodies if you wish, and come and see our friendly folk off for the year. Bring your crafty fun if you can do more than one thing at once! 
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• This will be our last meet until next year, so come along and bring a friend!
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• We will be at the Sporting Club in Weston St, Brunswick, opposite Barkly Square or Sparkly Bear as my friends call it, from 7pm. 
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• Come and have a drink or a tapa or a ginger snap!
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• If you haven't been for a while because you are so busy, now is the time to come back and say hi!
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• Hope to see you soon, from Stacy.
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• You can join our
facebook group here if you want more details or if you just want to talk with us, online, in the ether!

MY APOLOGIES FOR THE FORMATTING

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Brisbane Owls: Christmas Meet Up

 

Paper flowers

It's our last meet up of the year! 

Before you start wrapping up those Christmas presents pop in to Brown Owls on Saturday morning to make some sweet eco gift toppers including paper flowers, origami bows and tiny pom poms! 

How About Orange origami bows

Meet up details

When: Saturday 15 December, 10:30am-12:30pm

Where:  Brisbane Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane CBD

What to bring:
1. Old magazines, junk mail, any paper you would like to recycle into sweet gift toppers.

2. Scissors

3. Craft glue

4. Yarn, string or wool for pom pom making

5. Any other paper craft or pom pom making bits and bobs you have on hand.

If you don't have some of these things we will have some extras available on the day for you to use.

RSVP: As soon as possible by emailing brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com

 

Pom poms from Bugs and Fishes

See you then!

Mitcham Brown Owls

Hi There Owlies,

Here is the bog for our last meeting of this year. So bring along any finished projects to show off, a small plate of something to share, and something vintage to show every one, as well a your current work.

 Mandy's amazing crocodile stitch slippers!

I hope you can all make it on Saturday!

Kind regards,

Lianne.

The Details:

Where:  Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham ph:8272 4504
When :   Saturday 15th December 1.30 to 4.00 pm
Cost :  $7. per person.

Southside Owls ~ Thursday 13th December ~ Christmas Cheer!

Hello ladies!!

This will be our last meet for 2012! We will be making it a social meet again with food and wine and fun times!

And some great news, Michelle and I will be doing it again in 2013! Exactly the same format as this year: running from March - December, every second Thursday of the month, flipping between our two venues. Yay!!

Date: Thursday 13th December
Time: 7pm onwards

Venue: Miss Jackson, 2/19 Grey Street St. Kilda (through the big rusty gate)

Close to the #16, #96 and #112 trams, and nearby parking below

Craft: Christmas decorations, BYO, anything you like really, or even nothing at all!

I'm sure many of you already have plans for your crafty Christmas decorations, and are probably well under way, which is why we thought we'd leave this one open so you can bring along any Christmassy UFOs and get them finished off before the big day.

Here is a Pinterest board with some links to great tutorials and inspiration for crafty Christmas decorations! http://pinterest.com/ladygrey7/southside-owls-festive/

What to bring: a plate of food to share ~ a mix of sweet and savoury would be nice, so pop the details of what you are bringing along in the comments

Miss Jackson will provide wine for all! And I'll be bringing along something sweet made by Matt of course!

RSVP: Pop a comment to let us know you are coming along, and please add in the plate of food you would like to bring to share!

Feel free to email me or tweet me with any questions.

Looking forward to seeing you all before the Christmas break!

Shannon xx

{Next Meeting} Bayside Brown Owls, Mornington

We are meeting this coming Monday 10th December in Mornington at Bargain Box Fabrics located at Shop 6/1 Mornington-Tyabb Road, Mornington so if you live in the Frankston area please come along! You can join the meeting by RSVPing to the Event Invitation on our Facebook page. Meeting details are below.

Bargain Box Fabrics is a beautiful fabric store that I'm sure you'll all love! We are paying for the venue and for a sewing tutor to be present so cost is $10pp. Good news is that this includes tea and coffee plus assistance where needed!

Because this is our Christmas Party please bring along a $10-$15 Secret Santa gift - handmade or purchased depending on how much time you have on your hands this week!

We have also been offered a fantastic 10% off STORE WIDE so if you are a quilter, bag maker, or anything to do with beautiful fabrics you're going to LOVE this place! BYO project and we look forward to seeing you for a lovely night out crafting with friends.

REMINDER: A Very Brown Owls Christmas Next Sunday

Our last meeting in November was excellent:

Peta finished her awesome cross stitch:

Larissa was working on a beautiful crocheted blanket:

Katie had an amazing rainbow granny square blanket:

Alyce was doing some sneaky cross stitching:

And I added some yellow to my slowly growing rainbow blanket:

I can't wait for our CHRISTMAS PARTY next Sunday: 

Sunday 9th December 2012

2pm - 5pm

Address: Larissa's Place next to the Hazelhurst Gallery in Gymea

(email me for the exact address)

Bring a plate to share and a gift if you want to join in the Secret Santa Lucky Dip - Craft Notions and/or Handmade Gifts to the value of $20

It's totally optional of course - but if you put a pressie in the basket, you can take another one out!

New and Old Folks Welcome!

Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 - some LASTS

Howdy!

I have some 'lasts' to let you know about:

1. Us Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 CBD'ers had our LAST gathering of the year on tuesday - we had a super pom-pom-tastic time, see below for some nice pics

2. This pom-pom-tastic gathering was my LAST gathering as Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 Convenor - its time for me to hang up my Brown Owls hat, at least from an organising point of view. Brown Owls is still very close to my heart and I shall look forward to continuing to attend the city and other groups. Hence....... I'm hoping that one of you would like to put your hand up for me to hand the Melbourne CBD group reins over to. Who would like to volunteer? I'm happy to hand over contacts for Madame Brussels and give you the low down on what to do etc, though I'm sure a new person will bring new ideas and I'm all for that. Please contact me (leave a comment here, or Facebook / email me - find details in the column on the right) if you are interested. The city group is a lovely group and its been a pleasure to be part of it and see such lovely peeps.

Check out these Pom-pom-tastic pics:

Brenda was a dab hand with the sharp scissors and produced this beaut bronze pom pom

its me! the pom with the pom pom - most of the silver from this pom pom came off on my hand - i looked a little like the tin man from the wizard of oz

Sally - proper posing with her pom

Alex had the best selection of tissue paper - in super patterns and colours and everything, she's right arty

Bec managed to make her pom pom single handed, she just didn't want to be separated from that mojito!

As ever, Kimmy excelled - she's very very clever you know - check out that little cheery red beaut of a pom pom.

Ahh, original brown owl friend Shannon - so glad to have met you at that first one Shan

Super teacher Donna - she did us proud and was a super good teach.

We did a spot of pom-pom bombing and left some little pom pom gifts for Madame Brussels 

- thanks to Bec for being safety monitor and ensuring i didn't fall off the chair!

It's been great you Brown Owls 3000 CBD'ers - thanks for all the fun times. I very very much hope that someone puts their hands up to continuing this group, so I can still come and visit.

Hope to see you soon

Wishing you all crafty good health

Over and out

Sue x

Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 - November Gathering: pom-pom-tastic!

Hello!

So for our November gathering, and the last of 2012, we have a special treat.

Super Brown Owl Donna will show us how to make beautiful paper pom poms. I was very fortunate that Donna made me some pom poms for my wedding - look there they are above with some crochet bunting. Don't they look great!

If you'd like to join in with pom pom making here is what you will need to bring: tissue paper - at least 10 sheets (check out your local $2 store), super sharp scissors, framing or floristry wire (the thin stuff), string.

Or if you'd rather BYO project thats fine too.

Here's some more details:

when:    Tuesday 27th November, 6.30-9pm
where:   The Parlour Room, Madame Brussels, level 3, 59-63 Bourke Street, Melb 3000
cost:      no fee for attendance, but you may like to purchase a drink or a delight from the Madame Brussels menu, by way of a thank you for room usage
RSVP:   in the comments section below please - indicating your name eg. Sue H 

We welcome all - old friends, new faces - come along and say hi and get pom-pom-tastic.

Look forward to seeing you.

Sue x

Brisbane: Recycled t-shirt craft

DIY t-shirt yarn

Hello Brisbane Owls and BrisStylers!

The combined meet up of two fab Brisbane crafty groups you've been waiting for! It's time to raid your wardrobe or the local op shop to give new life to old t-shirts!

rosettes from matsutake

There are three options for re-cycling your old t-shirts this time! We'll show you how to quickly whip up some t-shirt yarn to be used for anything you can crochet, knit, macrame weave or plait OR use your old t-shirts to make sweet little rosettes in a matter of minutes OR create a fabulous new infinity scarf! The options for re-purposeing your old t-shirts are only limited by your imagination!

infinity scarf

As always if recycling t-shirts isn't your thing bring along your own craft to work on. It's all about taking time out for some crafty fun, a chat and laugh and a cuppa :)

Meet up details

When: Sunday 18 November, 10:30am-12:30pm

Where:  Carindale Library, Westfield Carindale, 1151 Creek Road, Carindale

What to bring:
1. Old t-shirts: The more the merrier! Note that if making t-shirt yarn or infinity scarves printed t-shirts don't work as well as un-printed, the ink on printed sections don't curl up to make a nice tube.
2. Scissors or even better a rotary cutter
3. Needle and thread, fabric glue and fabric scraps: If making rosettes
4. Cutting board

If you don't have some of these things we will have some extras available on the day for you to use (other than t-shirts, definitely bring at least one of those).

RSVP: As soon as possible by emailing brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com

See you then!

November Brown Owls...Christmas is coming!

October Brown Owls was mistakenly booked for Show weekend in Hobart, so we moved it to the the first weekend in November.

Most people were making Christmas decorations; some for themselves, some for our Christmas decoration swap.

I was making felt matroyshka doll decorations (courtesy of instructions here) in jewel colours:

Lis was making reindeer from a pattern she is making up:

sorry for this terrible photo...

 My daughter beat us all and finished a decoration (though I was browbeaten into a lot of helping):

 Josie and Hillary had coincidentally both found the same pattern on Etsy and were making felt gnomes:

While Rachel bucked the trend and worked on an embroidery for her mum:

Next meet is scheduled for 24th November but is likely to move back to the 1st December, just to give us a better balance of meetings.  Then we need to decide on meetings for the New Year!

St George and Sutherland Brown Owls

November Meet and Christmas Party

Some photos from our fun October gathering:

NOVEMBER MEETING

Sunday 18th November 2012

2pm - 5pm

Address: Buzzbar Mortdale

22 Morts Road

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Sunday 9th December 2012

2pm - 5pm

Address: Larissa's Place next to the Hazelhurst Gallery in Gymea

(email me for the exact address)

Bring a plate and if you want to join in a Lucky Dip for the Secret Santa Swap - Craft Notions and/or Handmade Gifts to the value of $20

It's totally optional of course - but if you put a pressie in the basket, you can take another one out!

New and Old Folks Welcome!

I hope to see you at our last 2 meetings of 2012!

Southside November Brown Owls!

Brown Owls time again!  Next Thursday 8th November, join us all for a very good cause – this month we’re going to be making softies – Softies for Mirabel.

Pip from Meet Me at Mikes has been running Softies for Mirabel for 6 years now – head over to Mikes for more information about this great cause.

“Mirabel Foundation does important work, supporting kids who are affected by parental substance abuse. They also support family members who might be caring for those kids.

Did you know that lots of kids move from the care of their parents to grandparents or aunties and uncles? Mirabel provides support to these children and their extended family, making sure that they all know how special they are, and that they are not alone.

Each year we run Softies For Mirabel with The Mirabel Foundation. We encourage you to make a soft toy (a softie!) for a Mirabel child. We think that it's really important to show these kids that they are in our thoughts and that we care about them. A handmade buddy can be a loyal companion to a child who may have the weight of the world on their shoulders at times.”
(excerpt from Meet Me at Mikes)

Date: Thursday 8th November

Time: 7:30pm onwards

Venue: Frankie and Swiss, Ground Floor, 199 Toorak Road, South Yarra. It’s the building on the corner of Toorak and Claremont Street. Right on the #8 tram or a 2 second walk from South Yarra station. I’ll also have parking available underneath the building. You’ll need to call me (9826 4261) to buzz you under:)

Craft: Fabric, sewing machine or hand sewing bits and pieces, trims and anything else to make softies!

Goodies: We will have tea and baked goodies, please feel free to bring something along if you would like to show off your baking skills!

RSVP: Please do leave a comment to let us know you are coming along! Feel free to email me or tweet me with any questions.

See you all next week!

Michelle
x

Brisbane: Make your own gift packaging

Image from How About Orange

We're gearing up big time for a handmade Christmas! At our next meet up we'll be making sweet boxes and bags for Christmas gifting (or for those of you having stalls at all the pre-Christmas markets these bags would be perfect!!)

Date: Thursday 8 November, 2012

Time: 6-8pm

Where: Wynnum Library, 66 Bay Tce, Wynnum Central

 

Image from Pinecone Camp

 

What to bring:

- Upcycled is always best in our books so bring along some old paper or any type of plain or patterned card you have, you could use anything, junk mail, magazines, newspaper, cereal boxes, the list is endless!

- Scissors and glue

- A ruler

- String or twine

- As always if you're unable to bring any of these things we will have some bits and pieces available on the day.

If packaging isn't your thing that's no problem, as always you can bring along your own craft to work on :)

RSVP as soon as you can by emailing brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com.

See you then!

P.S. Missed out on rubber stamp making or embroidered cards? We'll have the gear with us at this meet up, check out this post for what to bring for rubber stamps  http://brownowls-members.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/brisbane-rubber-stamp-making.html

and this one for embroidered cards http://brownowls-members.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/brisbane-owls-and-brisstylers.html

MICHAM BROWN OWLS

Hi There Owlies,

For those of you who took part in the Knitting Nancys, its on again!  For those of you who haven't heard of them,  Trenna Oelshink, who runs the retro and crafts store,  Irving baby has twice organised and curated a knitting and crochet themed exstravaganza at her store for the Adelaide festival fringe.  In the past we have had a food themed exhibit and an under the sea themed exhibit.

For next year, the theme is Aviary, and in honor of all the little Olwets out there, I have created this little fellow, join in the fun!

http://knittingnancyexhibition.blogspot.com.au/

Our next meeting is this Saturday, bring along your own work and anything you've finished so we can all have a look!

Looking forward to seeing you!

The Details: Where Gallery One, 1 Torrens Road Mitcham PH: 8272 4504
When;  Saturday 27th October, 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Cost;  $7. pp room hire.
 

Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 - October Gathering

 Hi lovely Melb 3000'ers and friends.

Very look forward to seeing you next tuesday, do come along and join us whether you are a regular or a newbie:

when: Tuesday 30th October 2012
at: 6.30 - 9pm
where: The Parlour, Madame Brussels, level 3, 59-63 Bourke St, Melbourne 3000
bring: BYO project of your choice
cost: no fee for attendance but you may like to purchase a drink or a delight from the Madame Brussels menu, by way of a thankyou for room usage
RSVP: in the comments section below please - indicating your name eg. Sue H

see you in 6 sleeps!

sue

 

Brisbane Owls and BrisStylers: Embroidered Cards

'Tis the time to think about Christmas cards! We have a sweet project lined up for our next meet up, it's all about embroidered cards! Plus we'll be joining forces with BrisStyle for a combined catch up!

Date: Saturday 27 October, 2012 

Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm

Where: Brisbane Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane CBD

 

What to bring:

- Upcycled is always best in our books so bring along some old postcards or any type of plain or patterned card you have, the ones on this post were made from old exhibition invites but you could use anything from junk mail to cereal boxes.

- A simple design or bring along some pencil and paper and make one on the day (designs pictured here will be available for you to use too)

- Embroidery thread

- Needle and a pin with a head

- Blank card, paper or gift tags depending on what you want to make. If you're not sure just bring along what you have and we can have a chat about what might work best and how to finish it off at home.

- Scissors and glue

- A dish sponge or piece of thick cardboard to help push your pin through the card. 

- As always if you're unable to bring any of these things we will have some bits and pieces available on the day.

If embroidered cards isn't your thing that's no problem, as always you can bring along your own craft to work on :)

RSVP by Friday 26 October by emailing brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com.

See you then!

P.S. Missed out on rubber stamp making last time? We'll have the gear with us at this meet up, check out this post for what to bring http://brownowls-members.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/brisbane-rubber-stamp-making.html