Friday 18th March

 Can't believe we are already half way through March but spring is certainly on its way.  Another quiet session this month, everyone who started the Stitch Camp challenge is still working on it and enjoying it.  Just want to say congratulations to the people of Gillamoor and Fadmoor the surrounding area who held a village sale and raised over £3000 for aid to Ukraine.

I managed to remember to take some photographs of peoples work this week so here we are.

This is Roma's piece from a workshop with Gwen Heddley, using an everyday object.

Cath is working on this lovely dyed fabric

Moira is felting this lovely piece of work. There is a fairy to be attached yet and you can see it at Hutton Buscel art exhibition.

Christina has started on her medieval work and this is a character from the Canterbury Tales.

This lovely little quilted piece is by Susan.

Saturday 19th February

 Not a lot to tell you this month.  I have booked Jessica Grady for a workshop in September so we now have two really good classes to look forward to.  Several members are still working on the Stitch Camp pieces they produced from the TextileArtists.org free workshops with Gwen Hedley.  It has produced some stunning work from around the world.  People are starting to think about their medieval pieces and I need to make a start too.

Unfortunately I forgot to take some photographs this week and I am really annoyed because there was some lovely work being done.  Hope to catch up with it next time with the finished pieces.

Sunday 23rd January

 Had a good meeting on Thursday with the majority of members present, everyone keen to get out and keep in touch with their friends.  We didn't have any demonstrations this time as I think everyone had been busy over Christmas and hadn't had time to do any preparation, I know I haven't.  A number of the members had joined the 'Stitch Camp' workshops run by TextileArtists.org which gave five free video sessions run by Gwen Hedley.  I joined and have really enjoyed getting back into just sitting and stitching.

I am attaching a link to a website about a red dress that has travelled 29 countries and been stitched on by 264 people and it looks amazing. The link is reddressembroidery.com and I have put a picture of it below.

If you look on the website you can see some of the embroideries that have been attached in close up.

Some of the groups work now.

Anne has been collecting recycled items and adding them to this piece of furnishing fabric

Diane is adding some bling to this piece

Moyra has been doing the stitch camp and has produced this interesting piece to work on

New member Glynis is stitching aliums in a variety of colours

I too have been doing stitch camp and this is the first area I have started stitching on. Long way to go yet.

Tuesday 21st December

 We had our Christmas meeting last Thursday with 15 members present.  We had a quiet stitching morning followed by a buffet lunch in the village hall and then we finished early as some members needed to be away.  It was good to see so many out and about with all the covid going around and we were all very careful to test before coming.  Decisions were made for some of the projects to start on in the new year in preparation for our next exhibition in 2023.

Merry Christmas to all who follow our blog and a happy and prosperous New Year.

New member Joan was doing this lovely piece of felting using the picture above as a guide.

Christina was stitching on some indigo tie dye she had done some time ago.

Lis was doing this beautiful piece of stitch work.  It's not very clear in this photo but it is really good.

Monday 22nd November

How lovely it was to get back to the Knitting and Stitching Show this weekend.  I took a coach on Friday and then went again on Sunday with my daughter.  Not as many stands as usual but I still seemed to spend plenty of money.  The gallery of exhibitors work was as good as ever but where have all the embroidery thread people gone?  There was hardly any stalls selling thread and it is so difficult to buy online and get the colours right.  

Our meeting last Thursday was buzzing.  With four new members we nearly had a full house and thanks to Lesley, Susan, Roma and Ann who demonstrated deconstructing a piece of work and reassembling it and also how to use tyvek.  Everyone was certainly interested and our new topic of the next exhibition in eighteen months time, Medieval - 1285 to 1485, got people making notes and discussing what to do.

Here is some of the work under way this month.

This was Lesley's painted fabric ready for cutting up

This is some of the work in her sketchbook

This is the picture that she originally brought to show us.  She has cut the work into four sections and reassembled them

Here Lesley has started to cut the painted fabric and is working on the best way of reassembling it 

This is Ann N's work

Roma is doing a collage

Susan has been experimenting with weaving

Sunday 7th November

 Sorry about the delay in posting but I have been really busy these last two weeks.  We had a wonderful exhibition, the Africa topic was really well thought of and we have a number of lovely comments in our book.  The sales table nearly cleared out, people are hungry for new bits and pieces. Having lost a few members due to the breaks over the covid lockdowns, we now have a number of people eager to join us so there will be some new members next week when we meet.

The Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate next week looks promising although there won't be as many stalls as usual and they are reducing the numbers going in so it should be comfortable for everyone.  We have a coach going but I have now closed the bookings as it will be difficult to get the tickets here in time.

Thought you might like to see a few of the photographs I took of the exhibition.  I haven't tidied them up yet so there may be some background that shouldn't be there but I am not a great photographer.

A lovely canvas work map of Africa

Can you spot the lion in Christine's beautiful fabric and stitch collage

Liz used her computerized sewing machine to make these stunning bags

This quilt by Ann was made up of 1172 squares from 72 fabrics

Lis's Red House of Madagascar is lovely, and the background of sequin waste just sets it off.

This is just a few of the pieces that eighteen members submitted and this was only part of the whole show, we also had pieces from workshops, our postcard challenge, our six stitch challenge and other things we had done during lockdown for various charities.

Thursday 16th September

 Another good meeting, nice to see people I haven't seen for some time.  Everyone is busy finishing off items for the exhibition on October 23rd and 24th. I am busy organising where to hang the work and collect it all in ready to display.

Susan sent me these two pictures of some work she has been doing.

Some lovely cyanotype printing here.

Here is some of the work done during the meeting.

Liz is putting some humour into her African pieces with this lovely child's banner.

Diane is doing this lovely image of zebra

Moyra worked on some wet felting

Helen is combining her stitch samples with her African theme

Christina has made this lovely mask

Everyone is really enjoying being back together again, let's hope nothing happens now to stop that.