Just some of the pieces members made at the workshop.
At October 19th's meeting Diane K will lead the workshop and show how to make shoes with no cutters. If time permits, a small purse will also be done. A list of tools and ingredients will be emailed. 
It was a good start to our new season and members were pleased that most meetings will be in the form of a workshop and will be hands-on.
The yoke is coming along too. I still have a few seams to do and a thistle to embroider somewhere for our Scottish heritage.
Isn't it just the best feeling when you have finished something and it is finally framed. I made this Under the Sea block for my friend and he did a really nice job framing it with a piece of door frame edging. It will hang in his living room in Florida, a very appropriate home for it!
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We can decide at the meeting if there are any other positions to be filled, and hopefully fill them. For example, should we have a Vice President? And perhaps two people might like to share one position. 
Membership dues of $25 for the 2008/09 year are due at this meeting. It was decided that “pay as you go” $5 per meeting will not be offered. It will be $25. for the year. 
***There will be a Show and Tell from what you have done this summer, so please bring in whatever you have made over the summer (our summer challenge was to do whatever we wanted to bring for show and tell) and any photos of cakes you have made during the summer. ***Diane Kingston will bring in the certificates for the winners of the contest.
***We’re going to have Lovingly Used table for anyone to bring in things they want to sell. The items should be priced and ready to go. The club will get 10% of the sales. Whatever is not bought can be taken home and brought back for another try, if so desired, or given to the raffle, or anything else short of leaving it for someone else to take care of.
WORKSHOP: At this first meeting we are holding a workshop on Quilling. Quilling is normally a paper craft, but can be adapted to cake decorating using narrow strips of gumpaste.
Please bring to this workshop:
A small amount of gumpaste (There will be some available at nominal cost.)
Basic tools: board, rolling pin, cornstarch puff, water, paintbrush, toothpicks, etc.
Strip cutters, if you have a set.
Piece of Styrofoam about 8” square, or a Styrofoam cake dummy, long pins.
P.S. Formatting in this programme is difficult, it runs everything together, so that's why there are dots in between the executive positions, and flowers between the paragraphs.
P.P.S If anyone knows Bibi Mohamed, could you let her know about the meeting. Her e-mail bounced back.
I managed to finally figure out how to the up and down buttonhole stitch in a feather stitch way. This is Detail 39. 
And this is Detail 46 
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After that we decided to try making a flower that neither of us had tried before. It was pictured on a wedding cake in one of our books, no name, no instructions. We thought it was a gardenia, but it turned out to be frangipani.
Here's a quick tutorial on how to make this flower:
I used an orchid petal cutter. The petals are quite waxy, so roll the gum paste out fairly thickly. Tool the edge just slightly.
Brush a little water on the bottom on each petal and layer them, one on top of the other. Fold the two outside petals around to join.
Adjust petals, and pinch off any excess paste from bottom. At this point you can push a moistened hooked wire into the bottom of the flower. 
Here are our first attempts. When they have dried, we'll dust the middles cream and steam them to give a nice sheen. These are without wire so will be attached to a cake with royal icing.
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