Last Meeting Of Our Year

Last meeting of our year

June 15th 2017

We had another chance to see the bunting. It is effective from any view but certainly bears close inspection. The imagination and skills of our members are well displayed. This bunting can be added to at any time and maybe new members will choose to do so.

The inspiration is to work something that represents the month of your birth.

After the monthly business when we found out that the Cream tea had really boosted the coffers and heard that the NW Chair, Val Coleshaw, had been very complimentary about both the branch and the skill of its members, there was an open show and tell when members were invited to talk about their unfinished objects.

Hilary Small gave an amusing account of failing to finish her elephant book cover because of "missing" pieces. The piece at the back of the photo is a yet to be finished tree done in a workshop led by Pat Blincoe.

Looks good to me !

She also related the tale of a tapestry work which had ben given to her and which she was unable to work for a while until she visited the Quaker tapestry at Kendal

and learned what the Bayeux stitch is!

Daphne Abbott spoke of her frustration at losing her piece of fabric with a Nicola Jarvis design on. However she now has a design printed an a bag and ready to be worked---- so time for her to stitch!

Margaret Andrews showed us her unfinished heart shaped Hardanger, made to celebrate her diamond wedding. She asked for advice as to where to get the diamonds to finish her lovely work!

Joyce Bargh took a blackwork design of a man's face from a RSN book and confessed to being a bit stuck with the shading. 

Joyce also showed a partly finished silk shading cloth. She has worked two corners using three strands and now wished she had used two! She is wondering whether to work the other two corners with two strands and put the cloth over a table with the three strand corners to the wall! Clever idea!

Barbara Bauckham brought her very detailed cross stitch of a work room. She said that only by modifying the design and changing some of the contents could she get it completed.

As you can see there are hours of work in it.

I always admire the work on our members work table and i was particularly taken with Laura Brown's sea horse which I thought was quite lovely!

                                                

I'm only sorry my photo doesn't do it justice!

The Nicola Jarvis workshop is on Wed 5th July and a

the trip to Stoneyhurst college on the 6th July

Our day of stitch is to be a week early at St Andrew's church on Sat 29th July

There is a national theme of butterflies.