Liz ezplained how the design we were to work could be used to make so many other items, pencil case, cushion or bag for instance. All we had to do was to count, one three or five. Easy!!!No, the TENSION was palpable. Very little chatter, just one three and five over and over again. I unpicked mine so many times that I only managed the inner square. Liz suggested that Aida fabric might make it easier and I intend to try. I can say that I will not be making a tablecloth!!!
It was a pleasant evening, though and i will work at my technoque.
Embroiderers’
Guild – Bolton Branch February 2019
News
This
Saturday is our Saturday stitch Day at Bank Top Chapel. We will be trying out different activities
and products and you can bring your own projects.
Our next workshop is on March 23 with Liz Cooksey, who came to our May 2017
meeting. Please pay the balance of the workshop fee tonight if you have not
already done so.
Following on from the successful Capability
Brown and 100 Hearts projects, the Guild’s project for 2019 is HOME -what does it mean to you? Details of how to take part are on the
noticeboard and the EG website. Last date for Registration is 28 February.
The
national AGM is in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 6 April. Details and booking form are on the
Guild website.
During
this evening’s meeting we are going to have a fund raising auction of some magnifiers, other items and some lace, all of which have been donated to us. Listen out!!
Competitions
The national members’ challenge for 2018/19 is “Life’s Rich Pattern”. Details are on the member’s section of the
Guild website, you will need to log in.
The subject for the Rosebowl competition for NW region next year is “Twist it, Turn
it”. There will be a joint regional
day/AGM for 2019 on 28 September at the Crofters Hotel in Garstang.
Exhibitions
This
weekend Preston EG have an
exhibition, “Shorelines and Seascsapes”
22,23 and 24 February at the Green Room, Barton Grange Garden Centre,
near Garstang. Glossop branch are having
an exhibition at Chatsworth in March and April, see the poster on the
noticeboard.
Ten
Plus have an exhibition “Beneath the Layers” at Warrington Museum and Gallery,
WA1 1JB
Sorrell
Kerrison’s display at Bolton Art Gallery
continues until 24 February 2019. Also
from 24 Jan -23 Feb, there will be an exhibition showcasing the work of staff
and students from the BA(Hons) Textiles and Surface Design course at the
University of Bolton, inspired by Bolton’s textile heritage.
Alice
Kettle has work at the Whitworth
Gallery, Manchester until 24 Feb 2019. ‘Thread
Bearing
Witness’ contains large textile works that consider the subject of migration
and how individuals, groups and communities respond to it. Also at the Whitworth – an exhibition of
textiles from the Islamic world “Four Corners of One Cloth”.
If you hear of any exhibitions or events that you think may
be of interest to us, please tell Sheelagh.
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.
