Brown Owls Melbourne 3000, February 2012 gathering

Well its that time again - arent we lucky! Next Tuesday and we get to hang out at Madame Brussels for a fabulous BYO crafty catch up.

when: Tuesday 7th February 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

Will be lovely to see you, especially those newbies out there that have been emailing me recently, we cant wait to say hi!

5 more sleeps!

Hoorah!

Sue

Brisbane Owls: Crochet Washcloths and Granny Squares

Brisbane Owls: It's time to RSVP for our first meet up of 2012! 

Date: Saturday 25 February 2012

Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm

Venue: Meeting Room, New Farm Library, 135 Sydney Street, New Farm.

Craft-along Project: Crochet Washcloths and Granny Squares

Crochet Washcloths for Beginners

Sam holds the record of being able to teach anyone to crochet in under 2 hours so if you've never picked up a crochet hook before and have always wanted to this is your chance to kick off your crochet addiction with a sweet little washcloth.

Bring a new size 4.5 or old size 7 crochet hook and some 8ply crochet cotton (Lincraft usually has a good supply of this for cheap) or yarn of choice, just make sure it's washable so you can suds it up and enjoy the end result! We will have a limited supply of crochet hooks and yarn available if you prefer to practice first before investing in your own yarn and hook.


Crochet Granny Squares

Already know the basics of crochet but yet to master the infamous granny square? Rebecca will guide you through a basic granny square, once you get the hang of it you won't believe how easy it is!

Bring the yarn of your choice and crochet hook to suit your yarn, you can work in one colour or as many colours as you like. Check the label on your yarn for the hook size required. If you're not sure ask your local craft store or email us at brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com. We will have a limited supply of crochet hooks and yarn available if you prefer to practice first before investing in your own yarn and hook.

Please leave a comment to let us know if you will be taking part in the project.

OR you can also BYO craft to work on.

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 this Thursday 23rd February or email brisbanebrownowls@gmail.com. If you do need access to a crochet hook on the day please let us know when you rsvp :)

Brown Owls Sydney February meeting

Hi Owls, 

After a bit of discussion and emails, we're having a coffee and a yarn for this month's meeting.

Where: A Coffee and a Yarn, 413 King St, Newtown

When: Sunday February 19, 10:00-13:00

Image from here.

Hope you can make it! 

Jess 

Next month's meeting is going to be on Tuesday March 20, so make sure to send your ideas for venues our way!

Hobart Brown Owls - January gathering pictures

Hobart Brown Owls kicked off the year in the usual lovely clubhouse in Taroona:

with the beautiful playground for the Owlets outside:

The Tassie weather gods were smiling (very!) brightly - so Sarah and Megan started off the meeting with some knitting work outside in the shade: 

There was happy sewing; making of skirts by Lauren and a bag by Chloe

Liz did some beautiful goddess inspired beading:

Virginia cut up some felt to make this gorgeous crochet rug:

And once Sarah and Megan had enough sunshine and hot weather, they came inside to use the magical ball winding machine (a first for many of us), with a happy result:

 Next meeting is February 25th - hoping to see existing and new Brown Owlers there!

The brownish nearly-owl in the playground...

St George and Sutherland Brown Owls THIS SUNDAY

HURRAH!

I hope to see you there if you can make it!

Sunday 5th February

2pm - 5pm

Buzzbar 22 Morts Road, Mortdale

Calling all Sydney crafters!

Have you made a New Years Resolution to craft more in 2012? Do you live in Sydney?

If you would like to become a Sydney Brown Owl then please head over to the Brown Owls Sydney Facebook page or email me at brownowlssydney (at) gmail (dot) com to get yourself added to the mailing list.

Image from here.

We (usually) meet on the 20th of each month where we craft, chat, have a cheeky wine and a laugh. This month's meeting was at Cockatoo Island where we had an amazing crafty cocktail session. Go here and here to see a write-up of the meeting!

Alternately, there is also a Sutherland and St George Brown Owls for those that live in the South. Check out the lovely Thouraya's details in the sidebar if you would like to attend their meetings.

Brunswick Brown Owls make Pomtastic Paper Pom Poms with ZOE

Wednesday, 1^st February, 2012

Brunswick Brown Owls make

Pomtastic Paper Pom Poms with ZOE

The delightful Zoe, who has been practicing her paper pom pom craft skills, will be taking us through a workshop on Wednesday 1^st November at 7pm at the Sporting Club, Weston St, Brunswick, Victoria.

You will need:

1. 8 – 10 sheets of tissue paper -

a. to make large size this will be using 8-10 standard sized full sheets of tissue paper, to make smaller ones you can cut the standard size up

b. Thicker tissue paper is easier to work with if you can get it

2. Wire (I will bring a whole heap of wire so people will not need to bring if they don’t want)

3. Sharp scissors

Zoe says, “They are incredibly easy to make so they certainly won't take a whole session to make depending on how many people want to make. So if you do want to go ahead with it I would suggest that people bring other stuff as well.”

“My friend has a market and she took these photos of ones I made for her market. Her market is called the Little Village Market Elwood.”

Welcome back to the Brunswick Brown Owls for 2012! Please note the change of fortnight; we’ll be rotating from here. If you can’t make it, we’ll pop up photos of the evening on our Brunswick Brown Owls facebook page so you can watch the fun too. We have almost 100 members, and you can be a part of our crafty community too! Come along and learn some new skills with us, and feel free to bring some materials to share!

The Sporting Club still has delicious tapas (4 for the price of 3, bargain!) and they even have discount price cocktails! Bonza! What a night! Bring your friends!

Adelaide Owls Update

Hi there Adelaide Owls - Hope you've all had a relaxing Christmas and New Year. Nearly time for school to go back so we can all get in to the routine of term time.

We've decided to take Adelaide Owls a little more informal this year and will be posting up details of a cafe/pub meeting in the next few weeks. We are thinking maybe weekend too, maybe even a visit to the park where the kids can play too.

If you have any ideas for meeting spots or would like to coordinate a meeting let us know via the email. In the mean time happy crafting!

Canberra Owls - New Year get together

Hello and happy New Year Canberra Owls!

We'll be starting our crafty meetings proper in February (the 18th we think - we have something super exciting planned, so pencil it in your diary!), but would like to invite everyone to join us for a drink and some afternoon tea on Saturday. Bring some crafting to do too, if you like!

Date: Saturday 21 January
Time: 2 pm
Place: Tilley's Devine Cafe at Lyneham shops

It would be lovely to see you! Come and enjoy a relaxing arvo chat - we'd love to hear what you've been up to over the summer, and whether you have any suggestions for things you'd like to try at our meetings this year!
We are also hoping to be able to confirm dates for the year by next week!

Please RSVP in the comments so we know how many people we should snaffle a table for.
See you there!

Love Naomi, Bron and Georgie

Southside Owls 2012!

Hello and happy new year!

Southside Owls will be on again in 2012!! As most of you know superwoman Kat is about to have her first baby very soon! So, I'm very excited to announce that the lovely Michelle from Frankie and Swiss will be co-hosting with me this year!

Photo taken by Michelle

We will switch between our two venues each month - Miss Jackson Cafe in St. Kilda, and Frankie and Swiss Print Studio in South Yarra.

We'll be meeting on the second Thursday of each month, starting in March.

Here's a list of dates and locations for 2012 (also in the sidebar calendar):

Thu 8th March - Miss Jackson

Thu 12th April - Frankie & Swiss

Thu 10th May - Miss Jackson

Thu 14th June - Frankie & Swiss

Thu 12th July - Miss Jackson

Thu 9th August - Frankie & Swiss

Thu 13th September - Miss Jackson

Thu 11th October - Frankie & Swiss

Thu 8th November - Miss Jackson

Thu 13th December - Frankie & Swiss

We will continue with a mixture of topic and BYO nights, and of course BYO is always welcome!

If you're a newbie and would like to get an idea of what we did last year have a look here

If you've got a particular yearning to do a particular topic, new or a repeat, please let us know in the comments below!

We'll post the meetings here on the blog roughly a week before. All you need to do to come along is RSVP by adding a comment to the blog post when it goes up for each meet!

Please feel free to contact me via email or twitter, or Michelle via email or twitter if you have any questions.

Really looking forward to seeing you all in March!

Brown Owls Melbourne 3000, January gathering

Happy New Year Melburnians (and beyond)!

Lets get on and do some crarfting, lets do that next tuesday, yes lets. Here are some details:

when: Tuesday 17th January 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

Will be lovely to see you, come along, come one, come all, and bring friends and nice people and new people, we like new people and old people as well and lets just all have a jolly january good time.

Sue

REMINDER: St George and Sutherland Brown Owls THIS SUNDAY!!

Come along for craft, coffee, and a catch up in sweet sweet air-conditioning!

See you there:

Sunday 8th January 2012 

2pm - 5pm

Buzzbar 22 Morts Road, Mortdale

Perth 2012

I thought it was about time we posted a Bayswater (Perth) update for 2012. 

Our group continues to grow but we still welcome new faces so if you have been thinking of coming, please do!

January

Our January meeting is happening on the 21st. We are heading to Knit the Beach as part of the Summerset Festival. This workshop will be held by the City of Stirling in order to produce crocheted and knitted items to cover parts of Scarborough Beach (aka yarn bomb the beach!). Knitting and crochet skills are not needed- there will be teachers. All you need to bring is a hook or needles. If you have any spare yarn laying around- bring that too!

If you are in Perth and cannot attend, you can still contribute by donating any spare yarn to any City of Stirling Library.

More info on this event can be found here.

Remainder of 2012

Dates

The remainder of our meetings will be held on the 3rd Sunday of the month.

February 19

March 18

April 15

May 20

June 17

July 15

August 19

September 16

October 21

November 18

December 16

Time

Meetings start at 2pm. You can hang around for as long or as short (?) as you wish. 

Bring

Usually meetings are BYO but we will always notify you if a meeting will have a certain theme. We also ask for a gold coin donation to contribute to the hire of the meeting room.

We will update here again leading up to Feb, but at the moment, it looks like we will have Carolyn (our resident experienced dressmaker) showing us how to re-create an old favourite item of clothing by creating a pattern.

Please contact either Sarah or Megan if you are thinking of joining. We welcome all types of crafting experience (from zero to pro).

Our Facebook group is also a great way of receiving updates (and checkout what everyone is making). If you are not a bloggy person, but are on FB. Join the group!

Preston Brown Owls January Meeting

Happy New Year Preston Owlers,

Here's a pic from our Christmas meeting. We celebrated a graduation, an engagement and a new baby. Congratulations to Keti, our chapter founder, who gave birth to baby Calvin in mid December.

From left to right: Belinda (welcome!), Elizabeth, Rebecca (me), Shanaugh, Aisha, Ann Margaret and Kathryn

Our first meeting of the year is

January 22nd

Pearl Oyster

114 Miller Street Preston

2 - 4pm

bring some handheld craft and have a cuppa and something delicious from the Pearl

By popular request our Februrary meeting will be on Saturday the 18th in the afternoon at GJs Discount Fabrics in their lovely upstairs room. But more about that next post.

Brown Owls Melbourne 3000, Movember in December pics

Well, didnt we have a super night! Last tuesday, 13th Dec, the Brown Owls Melbourne 3000 group caught up for a fabulous 'Movember in December' fundraiser.

We had a super raffle and some super winners:
Kate was the fine winner of a Madame Brussesls gift voucher for a Garden Party for two.
Gina won a copy of Pip's lovely book: Make Hey While the Sun Shines
Nadia was thrilled to take home a beautiful teahouse brooch and accessories, kindly donated by Tess.
Initially, I (thats me, Sue) won the Crafting Health gift voucher for a one hour luxurious massage, but given I was the one donating this prize (what are the chances of that!) I re-donated it and Kim, a Madame Brussels patron, was the very excited winner. All up we raised $240 - weyhey! - now donated to our official Movember page, which you can find here.

Thank you very very much to all those involved - prize donaters and attendees alike.

As promised, here is some pictorial evidence.













Look forward to the next gathering - tues 17th january - a BYO night, pop it in your diary.

Wishing you all a very super enjoyable festive season.

Sue x