Jubilee Red White and Blue 6th June 2012

 We had a joint meeting with the South Cheshire Embroiderers' Group on the patriotic theme of red, white and blue. There were a number of activities for the young people to chose from such as button bracelets, needlefelting, stencilling and dissolvable embroidery.

Margaret Steeden "Moving On' May 2012

Margaret Steeden

Margaret Steeden gave us a really interesting talk on Wednesday entitled' Moving On' , in which she described how she had personally moved on after being forced to take early retirement due to ill health and also how she has moved her work on through a process of experimentation and evaluation.
Margaret is a member of Textile 21.

News from Regional Day

Carol Stow has won 1st Prize in the Regional Competition ' Two peas in a Pod"with her felt sculpture "Happiness in Togetherness'.

Carol Stow

Well Done Carol!

Images from the exhibition 24th March 2012

My thanks go to Viv Cash for taking these wonderful photographs- they have certainly captured the day!

Susan Briscoe April 2012

Susan Briscoe came to our April meeting and delighted us with her many beautiful quilts, All of the quilts have been inspired by her time in Japan and each quilt had a story attached to it,

Quilt by Susan Biscoe

Susan Briscoe talking to Chelford Embroiderers' Guild April 2012

Young Embroiderers 10th April 2012

Young designers at work

We had a brilliant time at the Young Embroiderers meeting on Tuesday  as Jordan Hargreaves and Michele Friswell who are  embroidery students from MMU came to our meeting to show us contemporary hand stitching techniques.. We started off by creating an unique surface to stitch into using 'Di- Stix' fabric crayons. These can be used either by drawing a design onto paper and transferring it to the fabric by ironing or cna be used directly onto the fabric.

The finished results- some lovely cushions

 We then used a variety of hand- stitching techniques to decorate the work which we later made into cushions .

We got some lovely results

As you can see the the results were stunning!

Exhibition 24th March

Our exhibition this very was very successful with visitors coming from far and wide.

The winner of our competition was Jean Webb with 'Box of Delights'

Jean Webb 'Box of Delights'

Box of Delight Detail

Box of Delights detail

Second place was Carol Stow with 'A Pint, a Pie and a Pal'

Carol Stow 'A pint, a Pie and a Pal'

Carol Stow 9 Detail)

 And last but not least , third place was Leila Sutcliffe with 'Annomites'

Leila Sutcliffe " Anomites' (detail)

Well done to all our winners and a big  thank you to everyone who took part.

Marion Anniss March 2012

Marion Anniss came to speak to us this month. She delighted us with detail about her awe and wonder series which was inspired by Norwich Cathedral.

Marion Anniss Awe and Wonder series

History is usually the starting point for Marion's research -" the architecture, artefacts, wall and floor decorations of old buildings - get me sketching or photographing, and I take these images into designs. I review my observational drawings, sketches and experiments looking for patterns and shapes which I manipulate digitally. I am searching for images that will work as backgrounds for my textile pieces."History is usually the starting point for Marion's research -" the architecture, artefacts, wall and floor decorations of old buildings - get me sketching or photographing, and I take these images into designs. I review my observational drawings, sketches and experiments looking for patterns and shapes which I manipulate digitally. I am searching for images that will work as backgrounds for my textile pieces."

Marion Anniss at Chelford Embroiderers' Guild March 2012