April's Trillium Guild Meeting.

At our April meeting, Kim brought a guest, Doris Kidd. Doris is an avid knitter and embroiderer. She came to show us a special piece Kim had framed for her, and tell us the story of its inception.

She began it as an 11 year-old child in England in 1939, just as WWII was starting.

"This embroidery started as a linen tablecloth as a motif with Victorian ladies in a garden with over 50 coloured silks".

It was put away for decades and accompanied her and her husband when they immigrated to Canada in 1953. Recently, Doris gave each daughter a framed piece of the tablecloth.

For show and share, Jeanette showed us her red rose thread painting that was designed by Carol Arsenault.

Marion made this Hardanger square that had been designed by Judy Chen of the Toronto guild.

She also stitched this Trish Burr whitework design, modifying the colours to varying shades of taupe.

Sharon's stitched piece was mounted on a box that had been custom made by her friend, John.

Jeanette also showed us her finished whitework piece she had started last summer at the EAC Seminar in PEI. The class taught by Jenny Adin-Christie, a freelance specialist embroiderer who trained at the Royal School of Needlework in England where she resides.

"Jenny specializes in traditional whitework techniques and her latest commission included work as part of the RSN team, on the wedding dress for the marriage of Catherine Middle to Prince William."

This is one of Jenny's designs. Jeanette spent a lot of time at Elim and last week getting it finished up. She admitted that she did a significant amount of ripping out and re-stitching before it was completed.

Jeanette designed and stitched this canvaswork piece and mounted it on a pocket of a canvas tote bag. 

Meagan stitched this "Hen and her Llama".

She used variegated threads and a button on this cute, kitty cat sampler.

Sylvia showed us her completed miniature that she had started at last month's meeting.

She also showed us this 'windows' piece which had been a themed project with another guild a couple of years ago.

Shelley's daughter , Gillian, stitched this as a wedding gifts for friends for their upcoming wedding.

Jen got a shot of me in action while I was going over the steps to make needle minders.

After only a few minutes and a minimum of confusion, our little make-and-take project was completed.

Here are some of the finished needle minders.

Next month, Rosemary Oliver will bring in many of her fibre art pieces and talk to us about her process to create them.