Welcome to the world baby Poppy!

YAY!!!

With much patient waiting Melissa delivered Adelaide Brown Owl's first owlet.....

Poppy Margaret Williams

11/12/09

@ 4:10am

What a cutie, and what a beautiful name.

We all cannot wait to meet her in January Melissa!

x hugs x

Cathy, Cherry & Tracey

Introducing Brown Owls Finland

Hi everyone! The Finnish Brown Owls are a very faraway, very small chapter of Brown Owls. Actually it is just me so far. I'm Ulla, and I have been a Faraway member since 2008. That is when I made my uniform:

I have been learning new skills through the links provided by Pip, like crocheting potholders

 

and lots of Granny Squares in May and during the months of our summer.

 

The biggest project of Finnish Brown Owls was a challenge to make quilts, blankets and sheets for orphanages in Tanzania. This challenge was organized by the church, and they ended up with 177 quilts or blankets, 441 sheets and 24 pillow cases. This was my contribution:

 

plus this one:

Three quilts, two granny blankets (plus knitted squares for one!), and eight sheets. I called this my "local" community project, and I hope to find more suitable charity projects for next year. It would also be fun to find more members for this chapter, from Finland or from Scandinavia or even from Europe. We wouldn't have to be able to physically meet; I have enjoyed my virtual membership in Brown Owls and made it more real through the things I have made. Making Softies for Mirabel, a quilt top for the Bushfire quilts project, or restashing crafters in Victoria were also more Brown Owl than just me.  - I promise to make it shorter next time!

Brown Owls 2010

Hello!

Hi! I just wanted to check in and let you know about Brown Owls for next year - and thank you all for your input and participation and enthusiasm and crafty hard work. Brown Owls is all about you guys - and you all helped spread a really awesome Craft Is Good message this year!

Next year, Brown Owls will be more widespread and more inclusive. Where ever you may be in the world, you can start your own local chapter. Maybe your chapter has 4 members... or 40! Some cities will have a few chapters. Others will only have one.

You just need to adhere to the Brown Owls Code Of Conduct... and complete an application to register your chapter. Your appointed leader or leaders can write on this blog to post meeting updates and project ideas. And you can manage your own members (including membership fees and membership packs if you choose to have them) and meetings in the way that suits you. You might even have your own satellite blog or google group. Up to you!

Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Existing chapters will run as is, in the way they choose (if they choose to!) next year!

MELBOURNE people - the big chapter will not run in the same way next year. You are free to start your own Brown Owls in your suburb -to keep it convenient for you - and ensure that you get what YOU want to get from Brown Owls. And if you want to cross town and join a non-local chapter, of course you can!

Thank you so much to everyone for supporting our Owly efforts - mucho looking forward to the THIRD YEAR of Owling in 2010. All chapters will be linked to on this blog in the sidebar - by state or country - so you can see if you want to join a nearby group or start your own!

So have a think and see if you want to be a Brown Owls leader in your neck of the woods. Or hang tight and wait a month or two-and see where the chapters are forming, before you decide! Applications will be ongoing - there is no deadline or cut off date.

xx Pip

Mitcham Owls - Teacup Pin Cushions and Christmas Cheer

Mitcham Brown Owls final meeting for 2009

Come and join us at our next meeting - we're making darling teacup pin cushions and celebrating the Christmas Season!

When: Dec 12th 1:30pm til 4pm
Where: Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham
Cost: $4 per person

Materials List to bring:

• Tea cup and saucer (or other chinaware to make into a pin cushion)
• Scissors
• Sewing needle
• Own fabric and embroidery thread (if preferred)

We will supply a variety of fabrics, vintage ric rac, some embroidery threads, as well as the necessities. The charge will be $3 for materials.

We are also having Christmas drinks so feel free to bring food or drinks.

To RSVP add a comment to the post! We look forward to seeing you there!

Lianne & Julie

ps - don't forget Christmas dinner on the 9th - Check here for details and to RSVP

Canberra:: 'Tis the Season!

Photo from here. Tutorial over at Sadie and Lance!

Hohoho Canberra Brown Owls - it's time for our last meet of the year! Because everyone suffers a bit from the seasonal craziness this time of year, we're keeping it simple.

Sunday December 13th, 2 - 4 pm (not the 15th!!)
Tilley's Divine Cafe, Lyneham

BYO craft - but keep it small-ish please! We'll book a table of course, but it can get a bit squeezy. So maybe no hand-pieced quilts, hmmmm? (yes, Im looking at you Michelle L!!) And of course Tilley's has lots of yummy snacks and drinks available.

If you'd like to get into the Christmas spirit, bring along a Secrst Santa pressie of crafty notions up to $10 value. Adding a little something handmade would be extra lovely, don't you think? It's totally optional of course - but if you put a pressie in the basket, you can take another one out!

Please rsvp as usual so we can book a table with enough room for all the Owls.

See you there!

George xo

Melbourne :: Brown Owls Picnic :: POSTPONED :: This Sunday

Hi owly peeps,

Just dropping by to let you know that the final Owly picnic will not be on this weekend. There weren't many RSVPs anyway. I can't attend, unfortunately, but hopefully we can reschedule this event - and maybe we'll get a few more takers too!

If you have any queries - please send me an email via the Mike's blog.

xx Pip

Brown Owls Christmas Dinner

Come celebrate the start of the Christmas season and a sensational first year of Adelaide Brown Owls with us!

When: 9th of Dec @ 7pm
Where: T-Chow 68 Moonta St, Adelaide
RSVP: by adding a comment by the 7th Dec (to give us time to confirm numbers)

We will be having a lucky dip present swap on the night. If you’d like to participate please bring along a handmade gift wrapped and ready to swap. The gift can be from one of the 287 ideas Pip has post on her blog here, or something you have created from your own ideas.

(Photo borrowed from Meet me at Mikes)

If you haven’t checked Meet me at Mikes this week (thought we are sure you all have!) you really should because it’s a happy place this week, celebrating 3 years of blogging creative things to inspire us all.

Thanks Pip for being such a clever craft girl – without you our little group wouldn’t exist! X

PS – this will be our last meeting for the year. Brown Owls will be back on the 13th of Jan, refreshed and ready for 2010.

Sydney Brown Owls meetup

This Saturday Prints Charming are having a Market Day at their Annandale store.

Hopefully some Sydney owly types can make it!

Adelaide Owls: Afternoon Tea Stand DIY

Adelaide Brown Owls come and join us at our next meeting - we're making Vintage Crockery Afternoon Tea Stands, just like these made by one clever Adelaide owl Donna of redwrennyrambles.

** You can BYO craft if you don't wish to make the afternoon tea stand

When: Wednesday the 25th November 7-9:30pm

Where: The Box Factory, 59 Regent St, Adelaide

Cost: $2 for room hire per person PLUS $1 for a tube of superglue

Numbers: We have room for 25 owls

Materials List to bring:
2 teacups

1 large plate

1 medium sized plate

1 small saucer

To RSVP just add a comment to this post (Please let us know if you will be making the stand so we know how many glue tubes we need to buy. Ta!)

We look forward to seeing you there!
xx
Donna, Tracey, Cherry & Cathy

PS: Wednesday the 9th of December is our last meeting for 2009, we’ll be having a Christmas dinner at T-Chow, on Gouget Street in the city. Keep it free, we’ll ask for RSVP’s soon so keep checking the board!

Brisbane Brown Owls - How do YUDU!!

(the amazing YUDU machine)

The Brisbane Brown Owls spent another Sunday crafting away in our sweet, sunny nest. This Sunday we were lucky enough to get to try out the fabulous, new YUDU machine. Big thanks to Katy for carting not only the machine but vinyl, inks, screens, fabric, cards and lot and lots of other bits and pieces in for us to try.


(getting ready to print)

We had a crafty swap which was lots of fun too and ate lots of yummy treats!

Sunday was our last meet for 2009. Thanks to everyone who's come along this year and made it such a fun group and a special thanks goes to our craftin' Prefect, Rebecca for organising our crafty nest every month!!

(Brisbane Brown Owls - 2009)

Stay tuned for 2010 details!!

Canberra Brown Owls - Appliquing in November

string of hearts, originally uploaded by jude hill.

Hi Canberra Brown Owls!

Our next meeting is on Sunday 22 November at Downer Community Centre, from 2 pm to 4.30 pm.

Michelle is going to teach us all to applique two ways - blanket stitch and needleturn with freezer paper! We'll be learning on scrap pieces of fabric, mainly because it's the easiest way to learn. Once you're mastered the techniques, you can applique on and with anything you like - skirts, tea towels, bags - you name it!

Kits will be provided on the day free of charge and they will include the sticky papers we need, fabric, thread, floss and needles. Just bring along some sharp pins, a pencil and your scissors, and we'll be right to go!

Don't forget your $6 for the room hire and bring something to share for afternoon tea if you like. Tea and coffee are provided, as usual.

This is the last formal meeting for the year - but at the meeting we will be discussing where and when to have our Christmas gathering in December, so come along.

Don't forget to RSVP so we know how many chairs and tables to put out! See you all then!

Launceston Owls Get Christmassy!

Bring along a Christmas project - decorations, wrapping paper printing, cards, toy making, other gifts you are making, whatever you fancy.

Monday 30th November  7.30pm at Seworld, 88 Elizabeth Street.

RSVP by leaving a comment below.

Sydney Owls Meeting Cancelled

It seems that all the Sydney owls are very busy this time of year and we have no takers for our meeting this week.
We are going to have to cancel this time. Stay tuned for details of our Christmas party coming soon.....

Teacup Pincushions at Mitcham

Adelaide Brown Owls come and join us at our next Mitcham meeting - we're making super cute teacup pin cushions!

When: Nov 17th 7pm til 9:30pm
Where: Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham
Cost: $4 per person

Materials List to bring:

• Tea cup and saucer (or other chinaware to make into a pin cushion)
• Scissors
• Sewing needle
• Own fabric and embroidery thread (if preferred)

We will supply a variety of fabrics, vintage ric rac, some embroidery threads, as well as the necessities. The charge will be $3 for materials

To RSVP add a comment to the post!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Lianne & Julie

Sydney Brown Owl meeting This Thursday - Softie for Mirabel making

Hello Owls,
Our next owl meeting is this Thursday at the Centrehouse in Lane Cove.

We are going to try and make some softies for Mirabel which we will either send to Melbourne to join with all the softie loveliness at Meet Me at Mikes or we will give them to Mirabel in Sydney to help local children.

Either way Mirabel is a really worthy cause and anything we can contribute to them is fantastic.

Amy has put on the sydney google group a list of the kinds of things that we could bring along on Thursday.

I am going to bring along presewn sofites that need stuffing and handsewing, maybe some people will be crocheting?

Please let us know in the comments if you are going to be joining in the fun - don't forget to bring a mug for tea or coffee.

::Correction:: Adelaide Mitcham Meeting

Adelaide Owls - We've noticed a typo in the post for the next Mitcham meeting.

The meeting is in the afternoon, 1:30pm til 4pm at Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham

Sorry about that.

We will email all the members that have left a comment so that they know.

Sydney Owls: Email Group

image from skubach

Hello lovely Sydney Owls.

Are you on our email distribution list??

We have had a Google group and email distribution list set up for a while now but I have a feeling there are a few of you that aren’t on this email list.

If you attend the meetings and would like to be included on the email list, please send me a request via an email to honidesign @ gmail.com (without the spaces). Please include your name and your blog URL if you have one.

The email list and Google group is used for communications between the Sydney Owls, for general information such as upcoming market details, hints, tips, sales, sewing shop locations and more.

Also, we are trying to organise a Christmas catch up and present swap, and want to make sure all our regular attendees are included!

Adelaide Owls - BYO craftin'

Time to announce the next Adelaide Owls meeting at the Box Factory!

It's a BYO - so come join us for some craftin', embroiderin', cochetin', knittin', feltin', tattin', paintin', sewin', ... ok running out of crafty verbs now... oh eatin' and sippin' of course!

Image credit: Busstop

When: Wednesday Nov 11th 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.

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

Xx
Cathy, Tracey & Cherry

Final Melbourne Swap Meet and Picnic : All Welcome!

The final Brown Owls for this year will be an all in affair! Please do come, even if you haven't been to any meetings this year!! Please bring a swap with you - just a package of things that you like but you don't need anymore - crafty, gifty, foodie, bookie or otherwise!

Sunday 29th November
Carlton Gardens
(Near the children's play equipment - Rathdowne St side)
3pm onwards
Bring a picnic and blanket to sit on!
Kids welcome!
Bring your craft if you like!

RSVP here if you will come - and tell us who you will bring!!!

It's easy to get to on public transport - or if you drive there is parking around the perimeter, in nearby streets, and pay parking at the Museum.

IF IT RAINS :: We will meet at 3pm at the Museum Entrance - it's in the Carlton Gardens. We won't need a picnic then! But bring your swap! We'll go inside and head to the cafe for a bit of a sip together - and then we can wander around too! It's about $6 to get into the Museum for adults. Free for kids. But only go to the Museum if the weather is wet! I will post here on the day to confirm too.

:: Melbourne Meet : Wednesday 11 November : Borders/Gloria Jeans Carlton

Hi guys! We shall meet again, at Borders Carlton! We shall sip lattes and chai and crochet and stitch and chat and stuff! We shall!

Wednesday 11 November
7.30pm at Gloria Jeans!

Bring your own crafting or just come and chat and look at the books!
We're making it a bit earlier so we don't run out of time like we did last time!


RSVP here, so we know how many seats to (try and) save!

Brisbane Brown Owls goes out with a bang! RSVP NOW!

Brisbane Owls: It's time to RSVP for our last meet of the year and it's going to be a good one!

Date: Sunday 15 November

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.

Yudu Screen-printing demonstration: Katy has very kindly agreed to provide us with a demonstration with her super amazing yudu screen-printing machine!!!

Katy's yudu in action

This will be a demonstration only so make sure you BYO craft or you can...

Craft-along Project: Ningyogami
Melanie will be bringing her supplies and beautiful paper for those who missed out on ningyogami (cute little Japanese paper dolls) last time.
What to bring for Ningyogami: 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.

Ningyogami by Bel and Julia photo by Sam

Crafty Swap - This is not compulsory but for those who would like to celebrate our last meet of the year by taking part in a crafty swap bring along a small wrapped gift to the value of $10. This doesn't need to be something handmade by you, it could be some crafty supplies or a purchased handmade item.

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

Please RSVP by leaving a comment on this post by Thursday 12 November.

See you then!

Sydney date change.

Hello owls! Hoot Hoot!

Just a quick one to let you know of a date change for the Lane Cove November meeting. It has been moved up one week to November 12th because of a conflict. The November 12th meeting is still our "let's make softies for those who need them" meeting. Formal post with more details later this week!

Tonight's meeting is on at Leichhardt! See you there!

Sydney Meeting 4th November

Hello Lovely Owls.

We were meant to be doing tatting this week, but the lovely lady who was going to teach us has had something personal to deal with, and so is unsure if she can attend - but she will do her best.

Just to be safe, we will make this weeks meeting a BYO craft night.

Where: Berkelouw Books - 70 Norton st Leichhardt
When: 4th November, 7pm to 10pm

Please RSVP by commenting to this post.
There's a great little bar acorss the road for any Owls who would like to meet up for a pre-craft wine!

Tatting will be formally re-booked for early next year.

For those wanting to know a bit more about tatting, you can see this website for the Tatters Guild Australia

[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