WELL TRAVELLED BOOKS AND FOLIOS

Best wishes to everyone for a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Our first meeting of 2016 is on Saturday 2nd January.
Please bring along your travelling books for everyone to have a good look at.

Those of you who are going to carry on "travelling" even if you can't make
it on Saturday please pass it on to another member to bring to the meeting.

Carole Hood

These are some of the examples from our Travelling Books

Betty Ditcher

Heather Waring

We will also have some of the Guild Folios for members to enjoy.

Interesting video...

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2015

Our Christmas got off to a really pleasant start on Saturday afternoon.  We had our very lively Branch get together.
Lynda Jamieson organized a Christmas tree making workshop which was enjoyed by all of us.  It's always surprising you all start off with the same materials and how different they are by the end.

We also had a lucky ticket draw with prizes of a Christmas flower arrangement and a pretty bag.   Kindly donated by Christine Hoggarth and Bridget Lowe.  Thank you to everyone for the prizes and the fun workshop.  Of course we finished with afternoon tea all brought by the members, as always it was absolutely delicious.
Merry Christmas everyone and a very Happy New Year.

Fashion Felt Design - J Hill Felt

Fashion Felt Design - J Hill Felt
What is Felt Art? Watch how J Hill Artisan Felt fuses fashion and art together through an ancient textile known as felting. By fusing wool and silk together by hand, Jenny creates wearable art fashion. Bryce Johnson Visuals did an amazing job capturing my art!
Posted by J Hill Artisan Felt on Thursday, 3 December 2015

YSL Style is Eternal

I went to see this exhibition at Bowes Museum last week. The embroidery, especially the bead work on the dresses was amazing. The exhibition has been so popular it has been extended until November 8th, so there is still time to visit.

Interesting video - The disappearing art of making scissors by hand....

The first Monday Workshop of 2016

The first Monday Workshop in 2016 is on Monday 11th January has two elements.

One will focus on the Travelling Books that lots of our members have been working on.  Even if you've not been taking part they are very interesting to look though.  You can read more about our Travelling Books project here...


Some other travelling books from around the 'web' world...

Treads Across the Web  is written by someone in Oxford, also an Embroidery Guild member, she tells of her adventure with Travelling Books...

The image about is from the  South Cheshire Embroiderers' Guild blog Travelling Book Challenge.

The second element of the January Monday Workshop is to be directed by you...  please bring along anything that you are working on that you would like to share or maybe have a mini 'show & tell'.  Just like at school, what did you do in the holidays..?  but with an embroidery twist.  

Looking forward to see lots of you & your work there....

Digital Magazine

Another digital magazine for you to drool over...

Two copies of the digital magazine 'Through Our Hands are also been added over here....

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS SATURDAY 5TH DECEMBER

We will be having our Christmas Celebration meeting on Saturday.
A pleasant get together with a buffet tea.
This year our light hearted Christmas workshop will be twig Christmas trees made with 6 inch pieces of twig and plenty of ribbons tied around the trunk and a string hanging loop.