January 2016 meeting

Lots of people here today to start the New Year off well.  We have now filled our next workshop with Ruth Brown doing cyanotype printing so we are all looking forward to that.  Jackie has got a workshop sorted for next month doing printing on paper similar to the work she did at a workshop last year.  There was a lot of work going on with everyone's 'Blue' piece ready for the next exhibition.  Some have already started on their main pieces looking at ideas and samples.  A real buzz today and everyone seemed glad to be back to normal.


This is Maureen's Blue piece coming along nicely.

Ann has been working with leaf skeletons and painting them with gold and incorporating them into designs.  She was working on these two pieces this week.

Here are some more of her leaves.

Liz has done this lovely delicate piece using transfoils over stitching and covering with chiffon before she stitches into it further.

Colleen brought these lovely dolls that she makes from all the fabrics she used in her City and Guilds course many years ago.  It means that all the work gets a new lease of life and the old files can be disposed of, making more room in the loft for newer work!

December Meeting

Most of this meeting was spent in the restaurant having a lovely christmas lunch.  Most of the members present in the morning are also members of the Embroiderers Guild and they were busy finishing their birds for the exhibition next year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who looks at this site.

November meeting

A big sigh now the exhibition is over, although we are trying to get it displayed in another venue, as all that work deserves to be seen for more than two days.

Everyone was keen to know what the next topic will be so I had put together three choices for everyone to choose from, the most votes was the winner.  Choices were - 'A Foreign Affair', 'Under the Canopy', and 'Home Sweet Home'.  Barbara had put in a late suggestion of using a single colour to work from.  After some thought and discussion, everyone liked the idea of working with a single colour but didn't feel that it would be easy to display along with workbooks and also with the type of boards that we use to hang work on.  In the end, 'Under the Canopy' was the choice for the main topic, postcards will be done again starting now with your personal choice of card and also we are doing a small piece of work each in the colour blue.  So more work than I was originally asking!
Jackie has been on an interesting workshop painting papers in black and grey, to which she has added a dash of red.  She is going to source some paper and give us a workshop next year.

Moira brought in some of her sketchbooks with some lovely work inside them.

We seemed to have a busy day and everyone had completed the work they brought in well before the end of the day so that was very satisfying.

October Meeting and Exhibition

We had all the postcards together at the meeting on Thursday last week, all mounted onto canvas strips with two hanging options and they look wonderful.  Many different interpretations of each card were produced.

Here are just a few of them.

I think there are about 50 of them altogether, I haven't actually counted them.  Everyone has enjoyed this activity so we will be doing it again next year.

The exhibition went really well.  We didn't have quite as many exhibits as last time and neither did we have as many visitors but those who came were very appreciative of the work.  I have had a few enquiries from people wanting to join us so that is good as a couple are leaving this year. So here are some photographs of the work that you missed if you couldn't make the exhibition.  Remember, these were all based on the topic 'Warriors'.

September Meeting

Having just told you last month that our exhibition will be on the 10th and 11th October, I have now to inform you that I have made a real **** up of it all and I have actually booked the hall for the 24th & 25th October.  So that is when our exhibition will be, 24th and 25th October at Ayton Village Hall, admission free but there will be tea and cake available.
We brought most of the postcards to today's meeting and of course I forgot my camera.  I am going to photograph them at home when I lay them all out ready to be put onto tapes for displaying but I can assure you that they are amazing.  Lots of ideas from everybody and what is even better, everybody enjoyed doing it and they all want to do it again next year.
Will add to the post when I have got the photographs done.

August meeting

I have used the picture shown last month of Christine's embroidery on our flyer for the exhibition in October.  For those of you reading this blog that don't know yet, we are having our exhibition on the 'Warriors' topic on the 10th and 11th of October at Ayton Village Hall, Scarborough, YO13 9HY from 10am to 4pm.  Hope you can all join us.

There weren't very many of us this month but that was an advantage in a way as two people were felting, Moira was cutting large amounts of fabric and Liz had her sewing machine out so we had room to spread out.  Most people have now finished their postcards and we are getting them all together next month to see the best way of displaying them.  I think they are going to look really good.

Only a couple of photographs this month.  The first is Ann's lutradur with a markel stick design shaded onto it.  The second is Christina's designs taken from the elephant armour at the Royal Armouries.

July Meeting

A few people missing today as it is the start of the holidays for many.  However we still had an interesting day with nearly everyone doing work towards their Warrior pieces. Christina and Anita reported on the Summer Schools they had attended and showed the work they had done.  Here is some more of the work in progress at Ayton.

Christine's Aztec warrior is looking amazing.

Jackie is doing a reliquary box which would have been carried by the troops to bring good luck.

Jane is also working on Aztec's and these Angelina feathers will be going into an Aztec head-dress.

I have to choose a picture to go on our flyer for the exhibition and these are some of the ones I have got to choose from.  Would like to make it an embroidery if possible.