Jane O’Brien started her working life as an interior designer after studying the History of Art. She became interested in damask, a fabric which she explained originated from the city […]
A group of 15 members were led by Helen on her last ever workshop, and we all enjoyed learning how to use plastic-covered rope wound with a variety of textiles and
Our speaker this month was Helen Deighan and her talk was entitled “Going Potty”. Helen studied textiles at College and then went on to teach. She had to invent a
Our exhibition was open to the public from Friday 22 April until Monday 25 April. The Committee and members of the Guild took turns in helping Yvonne with the catering,
We started planning for our Ruby Celebration Exhibition of Textile Art & Embroidery in the autumn of 2015. A sub committee was formed with Ann Smith in overall charge and
On Monday we had our annual Ploughman’s lunch which was enjoyable and delicious as ever. We nearly always have a speaker at our monthly meetings so when we have an
On behalf of the Marlborough & District Embroiderers Guild we would like to pass on our congratulations to three of our members, Lorrain Lockwood, Linda Wells and Lindsay Sherwood who have
After an enjoyable talk the previous day (see report below) Cas Holmes lead a workshop on sketchbooks. She started off by asking the group how many of us regularly kept
Magpie of the Mind Our inspirational speaker this month was Cas Holmes. Cas has a Fine Arts degree in painting and photography which she uses with good effect in her work which is
Apart from when you are dyeing fabric, science is rarely mentioned alongside stitch and certainly one does not think of it when designing work but our speaker this month, Anne
