Take a Line – August 2018
Last year at a Guild meeting, Lindsay Sherwood came up with a great idea for showing the talents of members at the West Country Quilt and Textile Show held at […]
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Main Meetings, Uncategorized
Dr Susan Kay-Williams – July 2018
The speaker for our July meeting was Dr Susan Kay-Williams who is the Chief Executive of the Royal School of Needlework based at Hampton Court Palace. Her talk was entitled
Exhibitions, Uncategorized
Summer Exhibition – June 2018
Photos of the hall during our exhibition Members during the exhibition Members individual work A big thank you to everyone who came to our exhibition and made it such a
Main Meetings, Textile Artists, Uncategorized
Christine Chester – June 2018
Christine Chester’s talk this month was entitled “Afterwards”. Born and brought up in Eastbourne her father was an “in shore” fisherman and so beaches and the sea played a great
Textile Artists, Uncategorized, Workshops
Kathleen Murphy – “Thread Salad” workshop
As I love hand stitching I was particularly looking forward to this workshop with Kathleen. She started by showing us work from four different textile artists who used hand stitching.
Main Meetings, Textile Artists, Uncategorized
Heather Everitt – May 2018
I was curious about the title of today’s talk “Butterflies and Banners” so it was interesting to hear the story. Born in Derbyshire Heather Everitt spent a lot of her
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Working with soluble fabrics and silk fibres workshop – Cherrilyn Tyler
Cherrilyn started her workshop by showing us how to make silk paper using silk fibres. We were then asked to draw a design on soluble fleece, place it on net
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Cherrilyn Tyler – March 2018
The speaker at our well attended annual Branch Open Day was textile artist Cherrilyn Tyler whose talk was entitled “Journey Cloths”. She works on net and water soluble fabrics which
Textile Artists, Uncategorized, Workshops
Exploring Print on Fabric – Ann Smith – January 2018
On Monday we had an “in house” printing workshop led by Ann Smith. Ann started the day with a demonstration of preparing acetate sheets and gelli plates with acrylic
Main Meetings, Textile Artists, Uncategorized
Harriet Riddell – December 2017
What a great treat to welcome our surprise speaker Harriet Riddell to our Christmas meeting this week. I first saw Harriet at Art in Action when she had just left