Sorry for a bit of a delay in posting this. Will explain later. Rachel Nettles came to entertain us with a talk called intriguingly "Cabbages and Nettles".It soon became apparent. Racel brought along a wide range of vegetables that she had created , using a dissolvable fabric, lots of thread and loads of patience. These pieces were all life sized and took several looks to realise that they were not real. Rachel brought along sewing machines so that we could have a try too.She explained how she marketed her work, all over the worls , but directed towards the horticultural rather than craft market.Check her out at cabbagesandnettles.com
Embroiderers’ Guild – Bolton Branch January 2018
Happy New Year and
welcome to the first meeting of 2018.
This Saturday we have
our Jacob’s Feast at Bank Top Church, Ashworth Lane starting at 10 am. We will
be playing with Paisley shapes so please bring a selection of threads and
embellishments -beads, sequins, buttons, etc and a sewing kit.
Our Regional Day this year is 21st
April at the Wellington Park Hotel, Leyland.
The tickets are £26 including lunch.
If you wish to attend, please give your names to Sheelagh. There are two competitions of interest at regional day: the Rose Bowl competition on the theme of
“Our Beautiful North West”, and the Aurofil Award for “Excellence in
Embroidery”. Members may enter one piece
of work into either or both competitions.
The work must be entirely your own and completed in the last two
years. There are no size
restrictions. More details of the
conditions and judging criteria are on the notice board. Both competitions
will be judged at the regional day.
Our branch has done
well in regional competitions in the last few years so hopefully we will have
some good entries this year.
The national Members’ challenge for 2017/18 is
“Underfoot” and the closing date for entries is 28 February 2018. Details are on the noticeboard and they are
also on the EG website, but you need to
log into the members’ section.
100 Hearts
As part of the EG’s
plan to bring stitch and textile art to a wider public, they are inviting
members to take part in a commemoration of the ending of WW1 100 years ago by
embroidering a heart inspired by the “sweethearts” made by wounded WW1 soldiers
while recuperating from their injuries. You
should have received all the details of this project by e-mail in December. Full details are also on the noticeboard and
on the EG website – log into the members’ section. If you wish to take part you must complete a
registration form and post it so the project team receive it by 5 February
2018. Hearts to be completed by 31 July.
Details of the
regional Summer School, 1-3 June, are
on the notice board. The two tutors are
Julia Triston who came to our regional day at Haigh Hall and Valerie Wartelle
who came to our June 17 meeting.
Textile
21 group are exhibiting new work at Ordsall Hall until 4 Feb 2018, in an
exhibition titled “Shaped by Time”. This
is their response to stories of people
who have lived at Ordsall and made it their home and to the changes in the
building over time.
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.
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.
If you hear of any interesting exhibitions or
events that you think may be of interest to us, please let Sheelagh know and
details can go in the newsletter; smtmadden@talktalk.net
