Embroiderers’
Guild – Bolton Branch April 2018
Our next workshop at Bank Top Chapel is on
12 May when Colourcraft will be coming to show us their products and how we can
use them to enhance our embroidery. The
cost is £20. Please give your names and
payment to Clare.
Our Summer meal will
take place at the Ridgmont in Horwich, as before, on 17th July. More details next month.
The NW region journal should be available next month, price
£1.
Exchange Visit.
We
will be visiting Merseyside branch on Saturday 16th June in the
afternoon. We have our three members who will
speak for about 20 minutes each about their embroidery
experience and show
examples of their work. All members are
invited to go along in support
and to meet Merseyside branch members and see what they do. We don’t get many
opportunities to meet with EG members of other branches or see how they run their
meetings, so this should be an enjoyable occasion. They hope to visit us in
2019
Exhibitions
If you hear of any exhibitions or events that you think may
be of interest to us, please let Sheelagh know.
In the meantime:
Ten
Plus Textiles are having exhibition in the Atkinson Gallery, Lord St, Southport
from
7th
April – 15th July. Open Mon –
Sat 10am to 4pm.
Blackburn Festival
of Makers will take place 12 & 13 May.
Lots of events around the town centre.
Our speaker last month, Bella May Leonard, had
an installation last year in the Cathedral and
showed
us some slides of this work during her talk.
“Slaves of Fashion”, work by the Singh Twins at the Walker
Art gallery, Liverpool explores the history of Indian textiles, Empire,
enslavement and luxury consumerism and the contemporary relevance of these
issues today. Until 20 May.
The Lowry has an innovative exhibition called Edit.02 Thread
using digital techniques to turn biodata into a large quilt!
Our
Bolton blog: begstitchers.blogspot.com
We
now have Facebook pages for Bolton
and NW Region. Please ‘like us’ to help publicise the Guild
and
our activities.
If
you have any spare hand made cards for birthdays, please give to Ann.
Raffle prizes are always
welcome. Please see Janet if you have
anything.
If there are any library books you
think would be suitable for us, please tell Linda. (An ISBN would be
helpful). Anything for the sales table
please give to Karen.
