London Polymer Clay Group The last two places have been reserved for Melanie’s Rocks workshop on 10th June. So this workshops is now full, subject these reservations becoming confirmed bookings. Places are still avalable for the Cuffs workshop on 9th June. To reserve a place on Cuffs, or to go on a wiaitng list for Rocks, please contact me on ann@lpcg.co.uk Or if you are going to the Birthday meeting on Sunday, see me there.
Ann
We hope you are all busy thinking about your canes for the May Clay Day on 27th May. Remember it is also our 5th Birthday Party and we have some surprises planned.
Places are going fast so book online now by clicking here
Hats off to our very own Nadege Honey. She is todays ‘star’ on Polymer Clay Daily. It’s lovely that one of our London people (ok, I know she’s French!) is featured. It’s an honour to be on PCD, so it would be nice if you go on and send her a greeting.
Well done Nadege. Carol xxx
You can now register for our 5th Birthday Meeting on Sunday 27th May!
Carol has already posted a message about the flower ‘tangle’ cane we want to create, so bring your flower or leaf cane (and/or make one during the day – Carol will show us how); we’ll bundle them together and divide up the resulting mega cane so that we can all take a piece away with us as a memento of the day. Click here for Carol’s Post and full details about the project.
As usual the meeting will be at the Hugh Cubitt Community Centre in Islington (full details of the exact location can be found by clicking here), and we will start at 10.30 and finish at about 4.30. The cost will be £15, please pay by Paypal when you register, or bring cash/cheque on the day – sorry but we can’t process bank cards. The café will be open for drinks and refreshments, or of course you can bring your own snack with you.
We are only taking bookings online so click here to register but don’t delay as our recent events have been full to capacity
We really do hope you’ll be able to join us for this extra special clay day!
Attention, typo on my contact Email address on previous message re workshops. This has now been corrected, if you have tried to contact me and not had a response, please try again on ann@lpcg.co.uk.
Latest on numbers for the Rocks workshop, is 3 places left, one of which is reserved, awaiting confirmation.
During the South of the River group meeting on Sunday, I was able measure up the hall and plan out where the tables would go. I can now confirm we have another 5 places available on the Rocks/Sunday workshop. We still have plenty of space on the Cuffs/Saturday workshop. This is mainly due to the fact that a number of us where at Melanie’s Cuffs workshop in March.
For more information contact me on ann@lpcg.co.uk
On Sunday 27th May we will be celebrating LPCG’s 5th birthday and we’re hoping you’ll be there to enjoy this extra special clay day. And yes, we’ll have a specially made birthday cake and lots of other eats and treats too!
Registration will open very soon but meanwhile we thought you might like to know some of our plans for the day
For those who were with us a year ago at our 4th birthday party we made Zentangle canes (see photos). Everyone made a small cane that we joined together to make huge cane, which we reduced back to a small cane, with everyone taking home a piece. This year, as summer will be about to begin, we hope, we would like you to all join in making 3 large canes with a summer flower garden theme.
We are going to make flower and leaf canes which will be put together to make giant canes. We’ll reduce them and slice them up so that everyone who takes part can take home a piece of cane to use in brooches, beads or whatever.
Make your flower or leaf canes in either Kato, Fimo or Premo but please don’t mix clay types in a cane as they bake at different temperatures. Everyone will take home a piece of the flower garden cane that they contributed to. You can even make a cane in each of the three brands of clay and get back a piece of the 3 flower garden canes. Label your cane(s) with your name and the clay brand name.
You can use any colours you like and bear in mind that the flower pattern you choose will be reduced in size and may therefore loose some detail in the reduction process.
Please make them about 4 inches (100mm) long and 1 inch (25mm) in diameter. You could make several small canes to fill the spaces in the main canes but together these must add up to the same amount of clay as a 4 x 1 inch cane – equivalent to a 56 gram block.
If you’d like to participate but are unable to make the cane beforehand there will be time on the day to make one. For inspiration and free tutorials on making a flower or leaf cane just Google ‘flower cane tutorials’ as there are many online tutorials on making these pretty canes. On the day I’ll demo making a simple flower or leaf cane so you can join in and take home pieces of the flower garden canes.
Think of all the colours you see in gardens during early summer, bright or pastel – it’s a chance to let your imagination go wild and blossom just like a flower garden!
So to sum up:
· Flower and leaf canes
· Any flower colours including white.
· Size – about 4 inches ( 100mm) long and 1 inch (25mm) in diameter – approx a 56 gram block
· Kato, Fimo or Premo –but please don’t mix clay brands in a cane.
· Label the cane with your name and clay brand
I can’t wait to see all the polymer flower and leaf canes we’ll make – a wonderful garden bouquet.
See you on 27th May.
Carol
It is clay ordering time again! For anyone who doesn’t know, here is the deal. We have an arrangement with www.clayaround.com to place bulk orders and receive a discount of 15% off all the clays they stock, with free postage. No discount off accessories. This offer is only available to our members. For more info Email me on; ann@lpcg.co.uk and I will send you a blank order form and an information sheet.
The short version is all orders and monies are sent to me, I order and pay Clayaround, the clay is sent to me, which I sort out and bring along to the next London meeting.
The deadline for orders is Tuesday 1st May, to be ready for collection at our next meeting on 27th May, or at either of the Melanie Muir workshops.
In less than a week, all the places for Melanie’s Rocks workshop have been reserved. I will now start a waiting list, contact me on ann@lpcg.co.uk if you want to be added to this list. Nearly half of the places for her Cuffs workshop have been reserved too.
We may be able to add another 5 places to each workshop, after we have assessed the hall at our meeting there on the 29th April. The hall has a number of bulky chairs, set out in bays, we manage to set our tables up in the largest bay. This time, however we plan to move enough of the chairs to be able to assess the space better and make a table plan. Watch this space for an update.
The next meeting of the ‘South of the River Group’ will be on Sunday 29th April from 10.00am to 5.00pm, you are welcome to come and join us. We use the same hall as will be used for the Melanie Muir workshops, if you are booked on one of these and are not too far away, why not come and check out your journey or the venue.
Andria will be doing a demo on wire working. Our show and tell table is to be on the theme of ‘trees’, we have not had a theme before, it will be interesting to see what turns up.
There is a charge of £10 per person to cover the cost of the hall and refreshments (tea, coffee and biscuits). Please let me know if you want to join us, on ann@lpcg.co.uk.