At the West Country Quilt Show

The group had a stand at the West Country Quilt Show in Bristol at the end of August.

Bampton

Linda's beautiful piece called, A walk through the Palmerie, is on display at West Ox Arts, Bampton.

Linda Babb

Bampton exhibition

Our altered postcards look great in the window.

Bampton exhibition

Setting up exhibition, we had the help of a lovely man called John.

Bampton exhibition

Carolyn has made new books

Carolyn Sibbald

Exhibition in Bampton, Oxford

Exhibition is open, come and see what we have done.

Carla has added to her hive .

Exhibition set up

Yesterday we set up the exhibition at West Ox Arts, Bampton.
Grateful thanks to the helpful people at the gallery
It is on until 23rd June  
There is an official opening and "meet the artist" on Saturday 2nd June.
Do come along.
If you can't make it then two of the artists will be at the gallery each weekend.

Thank you to West Ox Art Gallery who have made us posters and flyers. 

Waggle dance quilt

Making up the quilt, I started to look at the back. Decided to make a label describing the waggle dance and the effect that pesticides have on the bees navigational skills.

Carla Mines

Liz, still stitching away.

Colours of a sunny period

Vortex

Taking a stitch for a walk

|Liz Harding

Carla continuing with her bees

Carla  has found a lovely poem by Norman Rowland Gale that describes bees beautifully.

You voluble, velvety fellows

That play on your flying and musical cellos

All golden girdled you serenade clover

Each artist in bass but a bibulous rover

Your passionate powdery pastoral bandits

Who gave you your roaming 

Rollicking mandate

Come out of my foxglove;

Come out of my roses

You bees with the plushy plausible noses.

Carla has been looking at the bees waggle dance. The bees do this dance within the hive to show the other foragers where the best food is located. They do a short zigzag when food is near and a longer one for further away. This dance was first decoded by the Austrian Scientist Karl con Frisch. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1973 for this discovery.

Brunel broderers working towards Bampton

Christmas over, Carolyn cutting small houses for exhibition at Bampton.

Corinne has brought some sewing that she had started before. A lovely appliqué inspired by Elaine Pamphilion, to hang in her house.