Today was the monthly meeting of the Embroiderers' Guild World Embroidery Study Group. There were ten of us there, which is pretty much a pre-Covid attendance. We are still socially distancing, sanitising our hands on arrival and wiping all surfaces before we leave.
Barbara Mullan, who has spent a lot of time in, and taken tour groups to, Gujarat, talked to us about the various embroideries of that region. Several members of the group have visited the area and there is a lot of interest.
In the absence of the light pointer, Maureen's walking stick proved useful!
Barbara has a substantial collection of embroidery collected on her trips and brought along a large selection to illustrate her talk.
Barbara provided a demonstration of shisha mirror embroidery. There was a lot of informal discussion and people stayed around talking for quite a while.
We also discussed our next year's program and some textile exhibitions coming up or already on in Adelaide.
I took another Jacaranda photo on the way home. It's interesting to see so many at such different stages of flowering in the same town. The temperature was much lower today but there are asthma warnings as a result of the thunderstorms last night.
It's taken me several hours this afternoon to write up the summary of our meeting to send out to members. I'd been hoping to progress my shawl - so now's the time to get on with it.
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