Hark the Chelford Angels Sing

The competition for the Christmas meeting was to design an make an 'original ' angel. When the committee came up with title they meant that it was not to come out of a kit but some of the entries were decidedly 'original' and not at all angelic ( especially those Carol Stow and Jenny Rydell!!!)
The angelic winner was created by Linda Towse and she was awarded the rose bowl which was handed over to Linda by last year's winner Bernadette and Chairperson Scilla.
The evening was spent making christmas cards and trying our hand at at Christmas Quiz.

Putting on the Ritz November 2010

I am really sorry that I wasn't able to get to this meeting as everyone I have spoken to has told me that I missed a wonderful evening. Notty Hornblower from Hope House Museum brought some of her collection of vintage costumes and as you can see from this photograph it really was a visual treat for members.

"Coming up Roses'

The Young Embroiderers are continuing with the theme of flowers and are working together to create a floral wall hanging using many different techniques. At this meeting we made a selection of flowers from suffolk puffs, gathering and layering techniques. We also made some with faces!. The idea is that we will continue this theme for the next couple of meetings and that the hanging we make will be exhibited and them donated to a worthy cause. If any 'grown up' members have any flower making techniques they would like to share with us please let Maria Walker know as you are welcome to come along to out next meeting on the 15th Feb 2011

Maggie Smith - October 2010

Maggie Smith treated us to an interesting and informative talk entitled' Still Life as an Inspiration for Embroidery". Maggie is a very talented textile artist and experienced tutor and all learned a lot from it and felt very inspired.
Maggie , of 'Get plastered fame' has a couple of websites where you can see more of her work, namely Stitch and Print and Haversham Dolls which showcases her new body of work, art dolls.

September 2010 Sarah Burgess

For our september 2010 meeting we were honoured to have a talk by Sarah Burgess entitled '"Glove Stories". Sarah is a member of the Practical Study Group and has had her work exhibited in ' Art of the Stitch".
Her talk and slideshow took us back to how she began her career in textiles, her work with the Practical Study Group, her detailed research into the history of glove making and her artistic interpretation of this work.
We were all really impressed by the professionalism of Sarah's work.

Young Embroiderers August 2010 Blooming Marvellous!!

The members of Chelford and North Cheshire's Young Embroiderers Guild had a ' blooming' good time at their August meeting. In the morning the young embroiderers learned how to make fabric flowers out of their old jeans and other fabrics. They then attached the flowers to hair clips and head bands. In the afternoon they had another go at making button jewellery and could add the flowers to their jewellery creations

Nicky Dillerstone July 2010

Nicky Dillerstone, who came all the way from Grimsby to talk at our meeting, treated us to an interesting talk about her work. Her enthusiasm about her work, and her wonderfully sumptuous surfaces, book and boxes, left us all really inspired.