December 11th  Meeting 2014

There was sadness in the air as Margaret Brown , a long standing and highly valued member had passed away.

The main business of the meeting today was a talk by the national Chairman of the Embroiderers' Guild, Christine Poole.

I was unable to attend this meeting but was sent the photographs and have heard comments on the meeting from various members  all of whom had thoroughly enjoyed Christine's talk and illustrations. She took along various samples of her work over the years, some finished and some not. We all have those!

The Christmas trees mentioned in the previous post were brought along so all members could have a close view.

Thank you Christine

We know what a busy schedule you have!

May I wish everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year.

The Christmas Tree Event 

Early December 2014

Rochdale Parish Church

As mentioned in the previous post, many of the members had decorated rings in any way they chose and those were taken by Daphne Abbott and Laura Brown, two very talented ladies.
This is what they produced !!!!!!!!

Aren't they absolutely stunning?
What an original idea!

Thank you so much ladies for your inspiration and hard work.

 Meeting on November 20th 2014 November

Everyone was busy today as we had two workshops going
There was also a busy sales table.

Many of us were bust having snowflakes from plastic canvas This workshop was led by Kathryn Butterworth with help from Muriel Hardy.

Some of the other members were busy doing smocked Christmas baubles. This workshop was led by Hilary Wilson, who is an active ember of the smocking guild. They are charming aren't they?

At this meeting we also brought back our contributions for the Christmas tree event at Rochdale Parish church in early December.

Here are some of the contributions lined up in the church.

We had been asked to decorate rings of three different sizes in any way we wanted but using mainly green.

These will then be used to make up two trees for the event.
More of this later.

Branch meeting Oct 16th 2014

The members  work table

Two of our members brought in the tassels with Ribbon embroidery that they had made at the workshop with Nicola Hulme, 

As usual with creative people there is a variation in interpretation but both are lovely.
Our talk today was by Wynn Ingam who knows a lot about Casalguidi embroidery.

Her talk, however, ranged across many skills and outlined her journey in stitching

Wynne brought along a lot of samples of different things she does workshops in and was soon signed up for a workshop in the New Year

That will be eagerly anticipated