Happy New year to all our followers.
The first matter to be dealt with was the presentation of a welcome pack to new member Beverley and a warm welcome for visitors Jackie and Wendy.
After the business of the meeting which included reminders and some dates for diaries Hilary introduced our speaker, Katie Duxbury who spoke about her dressmaking journey into costume design.
Since her degree at Nottingham Trent Katie has pursued her career with stints at many different theatres including the Coliseum at Oldham
She showed us numerous slides of her costumes and resposibilies at her various posts
We were quickly made aware of a passion for repeating small shapes to make a whole such as is illustrated in this dress
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Katie also has an interest in the durability of clothing and she intends to wear this dress while walking hundreds of miles, to see the effect on the fabric.
This is another example of Katie's work
Unfortunately my i phone picked this day to take inferior photographs
