Day school March 17th 2016

Crewel work--- Nicola Hulme

Nicola is no stranger to some of our members and fairly recently run a workshop on tassel making.

We quickly learned the definition of crewel work and were given to choice of two sample to work.




Nicola advised the left hand one for we beginners and the right hand one for the more ambitious.
Nicola had transferred the pattern on to the Linen fabric using Frixion pens and she explained about them to the uninitiated.

This board had some other examples of crewel work done by Nicola


Our first task was to select the colours for our work and that was a joy faced with such a rainbow of options.  Nicola advised on tone and variation.

As a real beginner to crewel work I was grateful for the step by step tuition we were given.

All instructions and demonstrations were helpful and instructive.

By the end of the day we had all been guided through the stitches needed to complete our projects and all went home with a work in progress.

A really enjoyable day!!

Branch meetings February and March 2016

The  last two branch  meetings have been mainly concerned with Workshops

One of these was an Introduction Yubinuki ( Japanese ring thimbles) which are illustrated above.
Kathryn Thompson visited us to teach the technique which required a lot of time and patience and kept her group very focused.

The other workshop was an Introduction to Hardanger, run by Hilary Small,

This also proved very engrossing and results were developing by the end of the sessions

I am hoping that the members worktable at the next meeting will furnish me with the opportunity to
photograph  the results of the workshops.