Brisbane: embroidery with edward & lilly

It's time for some drawing with thread! Bring along your own design or select from some on the day to create your own beautiful stitched work. 

Learn the basics of embroidery including transferring designs onto fabric, using traditional stitches in new and interesting ways and brainstorming ideas for how to finish and present your completed embroidery.

This is not a meet up for those looking to learn traditional embroidery but rather an opportunity to experiment with stitches in your own way! 

Meet up details

When: Saturday 26 October, 10:30am-12:30pm

Where:  West End Library, 178-180 Boundary Street, West End (the meeting room is upstairs)

What to bring:
1. Fabric to embroider onto

2. Embroidery thread

3. Needle

4. Scissors

5. A water soluble pen (only if you have one, there will be some available to use on the day)

6. A design to embroider (this could be anything from a picture through to text)

7. A notebook, pencil or eraser if you'd like to do your own design on the day. 

There will be extra supplies on the day if you don't have time to find everything to bring.

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

ALL HALLOWS EVE PUMPKIN CARVING with Allanagh, Wednesday, 23rd October 2013

Brunswick Brown Owls celebrate the festival ALL HALLOWS EVE this Wednesday! We will celebrate with carving a big old pumpkin. Never done it before? Me neither, but don’t worry, our champion pumpkin carver Allanagh will be sharing her experience and skills (I'll share my lino cutting tools with you). 

Come and join us, Wednesday 23^rd October at 7pm at the Sporting Club, Weston St, Brunswick, Victoria for a Halloween pumpkin carving fiesta! 

You'll need to pick up a pumpkin from a local grocer.

We may not live in the northern hemisphere, and we’re not preparing for the long winter ahead, but we love to celebrate all sorts of festivals! 

It's not just about American teen horror films, thankfully.

Image sourced: http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardmiller/1705678779/in/photostream

 Allanagh says:

Ok folks, the time to get your scare on is fast approaching! If you want to carve a pumpkin you should get your thinking cap on because as the old saying goes, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

From experience, it takes a lot longer than most people realise, so if possible, have your pumpkin already hollowed out (this can take between half to 1.5hrs depending on the size of your pumpkin).

The simplest designs are often the most successful, so you might want to print out a design. A good investment is a set of lino cutting tools with which to carve, is at http://www.silkcutlino.ashop.com.au/ and they have them with free delivery.

Check out our Halloween Pinterest page! http://www.pinterest.com/cailinbeag/all-hallows-eve/

If you’re not into pumpkins or sharp knives, feel free to bring your own crafty project and carry on with that, there will be lots happening in the fine Ladies Lounge.

We’d love you to come and say HIDEE HI to the Brunswick Brown Owls! If you can’t make it, we’ll pop up photos of the evening on our Brunswick Brown Owls Facebook page so you can join in the fun too.  We have over 170 members (no spambots luckily!), and you can be a part of our crafty community too! Come along and learn some new skills with us!

The Sporting Club still has delicious tapas and discounted cider jugs! Tasty. 

Bring your friends! We like your friends! We like you!

Brisbane: Paper flowers and garlands

It's time to up-cycle some paper! Bring along your old magazines or any paper you would like to use for paper flowers! There will be two flowers to learn, Rebecca's above and Raye's fab flowers below! Plus we'll squeeze in some paper garland ideas too :)

Meet up details

When: Sunday 20 October, 10:30am-12:30pm

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

What to bring:
1. Old magazines or any paper you would like to recycle.

2. Scissors

3. Craft glue

4. Paper clips

5. A stick to attach your flower to (or you can do this later at home)

6. A pen or pencil

7. A ruler may come in handy.

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

Mitcham Brown Owls

Hi there Owlies,

Our next class is this Saturday, so dig out your crafting goodies and get ready. 

Bring along your own work and what ever you have finished to show off and we are having a repeat of the Crochet afghan squares for any one who is interested,  So, be there or be square!

Looking forward to seeing you,  Lianne.

The details:

Where:  Gallery One, 1 Torrens Road Mitcham PH 0431 297 258

When:  Saturday 19th October 2013,  1.30 to 4.00 pm.

Cost :  $7. room hire

What to bring :  whatever you are currently working on.

Parramatta Brown Owls Ongoing

Up in the western suburbs of Sydney, a small but pretty regular group has been meeting at Mars Hill Cafe on the last Saturday of the month. It's a BYOCraft group that has brought spinning, patchwork, cross stitch, knitting, crochet, and other needlework to the table.

Mars Hill has wonderful breakfasts and if we might have been shy the first few months, now we all seem to order up a hearty breakfast and lovely drinks upon arrival. Then, just as though we are sitting around grandma's kitchen table, the needles and pins, hooks and wools, fabrics ands fibers appear and the real neighborly chatting begins.

This is a lovely group of women (and their children) who share resources, ideas, patterns, and assistance. If you live anywhere just north of Sydney, or up in the Blue Mountains, you'll feel drawn to visit our little group.

Next meet:

Saturday, 26 October at 11 am
Mars Hill Cafe
331 Church Street, Parramatta

We've booked the large room upstairs. You can order drink and/or food on your way up or bring your own. If you order, they'll bring it up to you. If you bring kids, there's a small room full of board games just next to the large upstairs room.

There is no fee and you do not have to buy anything from the cafe to attend.

We look forward to meeting you!

BRUNSWICK BROWN OWLS MAKE HAT STUFF!

BRUNSWICK BROWN OWLS 

MAKE HAT STUFF!

Hello lovely crafty types! 

Our regular Brown Owl millinery expert extraordinaire, Kimmy, will be sharing her skills and experience for the lead up to Spring Racing time and is running a low key workshop to make a sinamay lily 

tomorrow, Wednesday 9th October, 2013 at 7pm.

The lily will be suitable to put on a hat, make a headpiece or could be used to make brooch.

You will need to bring a basic sewing kit eg. needles, thread and pins and $3 to cover the cost of sinamay that Kimmy will kindly supply.

We are a crafty group that is free to join and very welcoming to new members. We meet every fortnight on a Wednesday at 7pm in the Ladies Lounge in the Sporting Club Hotel in Weston St, Brunswick ,Vic. 

We usually bring in a crafty project we are working on, or once every couple of months we have a project or tutorial from a guest teacher where we learn new skills or make something new, like this one! Either way, we have a drink or some tasty tapas to show our affection for our lovely hosts, we have a chat, and we meet new people into the cool stuff you're into and have more chats and laughs and fun. 

That's it! Come! Bring a friend! Join our group on facebook! Share! Tweet tweet!

Preston Brown Owls October Meeting

Dear Prestonites,

It is cafe time again! Please join us for a couple of delightful hours of conviviality and stitching-however-you-care-to at 

CHESHIRE

20 October, 2013

583 Gilbert Road, West Preston
2 - 4pm

cost is free but please buy something delicious from our lovely hosts

Everyone is welcome - we like new folks! Just bring some handwork.

Southside Owls ~ Thursday 10th October ~ BYO at Miss Jackson!

Hello lovely ladies!!

The lovely Michelle is going to be drinking pina coladas in Bali next week and visiting some of the places I went to just a few weeks ago! So we'll be at Miss Jackson for our October meet.

The year seems to be flying by! We have had a few topics on lately, so we thought a good old BYO night was in order! Hopefully it will be warm enough that we won't need to light the open fire! Come on spring!!

Date: Thursday 10th October

Time: 7:30pm 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: BYO!

       

Goodies: We will have tea a plenty. Please feel free to bring something along if you would like to show off your baking skills! 

RSVP: Leave a comment here, on facebook, email me or tweet me!

See you all next week! Looking forward to catching up with you all!!

Shan x

Bayside Brown Owls Term 4 Meeting Dates

Term 4 Dates for Bayside Brown Owls have been confirmed! We will be meeting at The Sewing Bee Cafe every 3 weeks starting on Monday 7th October. Cost is still $10pp with Tea and Coffee provided. Please RSVP to the meeting request next week if you will be coming along! Our next meeting for the year will be from 7:30PM - 9:30PM on Monday 7th October at our new venue The Sewing Bee Cafe in Baxter located at 80 Baxter-Tooradin Road. 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. 

Brisbane: Catch up on a craft

Did you miss out on a craft this year that you would love to learn?

There have been a number of requests lately for some of our 2013 crafts to be repeated so we'll be having a little meet up next week to catch you all up on the crafts you may have missed!

For anyone interested in a demo and some guidance on rag rugs, loom weaving, sashiko, kantha, basket weaving with fabric, a quick crochet lesson or you can bring along your own craft to work on!

Meet up details

When: Thursday 10 October, 6-8pm

Where: Indooroopilly Library, Westfield Indooroopilly, 322 Moggill Road, Indooroopilly

What to bring: This will depend on which craft you would like to learn, when you RSVP a link to the materials list will be provided or you can check out the 2013 crafts here

RSVP: ASAP to brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com, let me know which craft you would like to do when you email so I can be prepared :)

See you there!

Parramatta Brown Owls September Meet-up

It's almost the last Saturday of the month again? Then the Parramatta Brown Owls will be meeting!

11 am

Mars Hill Cafe

331 Church Street, Parramatta

We'll be upstairs as usual in their events room. Big plank floors, wood tables, and natural light streaming in through the windows. Bring your own craft!

And you can bring your kids if you want to. There's plenty of space for them to play, craft, and a game room full of board games as well.

Order food and drinks if you want downstairs and come on up. They'll bring it up to you. Mars Hill Cafe serves delicious drinks and breakfasts.

MITCHAM BROWN OWLS Make an Owl Afghan Square.

Hi there Owlies,

This month we are having a "Bring along your own work" group, and don't forget to bring along
any finished pieces to show off!

A very clever lady showed me a photo of an Owl granny square, so I'll bring the pattern for making them.




http://www.repeatcrafterme.com/2012/11/owl-granny-square-crochet-pattern.html
(Here is the pattern link for those of you unable to come along)


Of course, there will also be knitting and crochet support!

For those of you who are needing to buy (or to get rid of) craft supplies, Gallery One is having its annual Crafty De-stash sale on the 13th of October - its a great opportunity to do some trading!
 Phone the Gallery on 8272 4504 for more info.

The details:

Where:  Gallery One. 1 Torrens Road Mitcham (Behind the Mitcham Institute)  PH 8272 4504
When:  Saturday 21st September 1.30 - 4.00 pm.
Cost:  $7. per person room hire.

Brown Owls Spring Clean Out Swap Meet

St George and Sutherland Brown Owls

Time to get ready for out next meeting in October!

We are having a SPRING SWAP MEET!

Bring along any crafty materials you want to get rid of or don't use and swap them with other crafters!

I will be bringing along some Frankie Mags, Fabric, Wool and other bits!

Time to clean up, clear out and get inspired!

Meeting Details:

Sunday 13th October 2013 2pm - 5pm

Buzzbar, Mortdale

Brown Owls at The Pub

St George and Sutherland Brown Owls is on THIS SUNDAY!

Get ready for a nice relaxing drink and craft at the pub:

Sunday 15th September 2013 2pm - 5pm

The Oatley Hotel

We will be upstairs...come along and join us!

Southside Brown Owls - Thurs 12th September

Hello everyone!

Michelle here and it's time for September Brown Owls. How fast is this year moving along! 

Recently Shannon and I were approached by a charity to see whether the Southside ladies would want to help them make finger puppets. And we thought this was a great idea! Here is the google link to a whole bunch or patterns. 

So bring some felt, a needle and thread (and we'll have some in the studio as well for you to use) and let's make some puppets:) 

"Ardoch Youth Foundation in St Kilda runs ‘Play, Learn, Read’, a specialist

reading program for young children in disadvantaged areas of Melbourne. We

have a team of fantastic volunteers who read and play with the children in

kindergartens each week to help develop their reading and oral language. We

have a range of picture books and some general finger puppets but would

really like our volunteers to be able to use finger puppets that reflect

the animals in the stories they are reading with the children such as

Possum Magic and Wombat Stew."

Date: Thursday 12th September 2013

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: Finger Puppets! 
Goodies: We will have the usuals, like tea and biscuits. Feel free to bring something along if you would like to show off your baking skills!

RSVP: You can leave a comment here or email michelle[at]frankieandswiss.com.au or call me:)

See you all on Thursday!
xx Michelle