24th October 2020: Quarto by Zoom

Our autumn meeting date was Saturday October 24th and once again technology came to our rescue with  a Zoom-based workshop organised by Janet Barnett and Margaret Beech and facilitated by Susan Moor's Zoom account!  This time we were more ambitious, with a project in the morning, and another for the afternoon. Sadly, I don't have as many photos as usual but hopefully these give some idea of what we spent the day doing!

Janet began with 'Flexagons' - clever little mathematical folds of which appear to defy the basic laws of paper.  We made two, following her on-line demonstration and excellent powerpoint which kept us right and also gave lots of other ideas for developing the basic idea further.

In the afternoon, Margaret introduced us to a super-simple 'Triple Whammy' card and demonstrated how to make an envelope to fit it.  These are the ones Margaret had produced to inspire us along with the versions Pat and I made (we're in a support bubble so we were able to work together!) 

If anyone else has photos of the things they made on Saturday, please send them to me - it would be great to see what everyone created!

Finally, instead of our usual bookswap we had a quick 'show and tell' of projects we'd completed during Lockdown, with Janet showing how she'd used the stunning photos from her cruise to create an inspirational thoughts book and Pat demonstrating the different structures she'd used in a holiday scrapbook, most of which were taken from Shrushti Patil's Youtube tutorials which can be found here... 

It was really lovely to see and talk to everyone (not to mention getting a little peek inside some people's crafty HQs and seeing Susan's gorgeous cat!) and the Zoom approach is a really good one - hopefully we'll be able to do the same again in January when Margaret might be persuaded to show us how she made this stunning flexagon birthday card incorporating some tiny envelopes!

Wishing you all a crafty lead-up to Christmas!