We had a delightful hour listening to Claire explain why and how she takes a Defiant Approach to Hand Embroidery. Claire explained that her Art teacher at school told her […]
I have just returned from a long weekend in the New Forest with my walking group. Currently I am only able to do short walks but it did give me
Congratulations to Lindsay and Nikki who entered the recent inspiring Madeira Embroidery Competition at the NEC. Vernice kindly took them up in her car and it sounds like they all
The day after Wendy Lloyd’s inspiring talk she led a workshop entitled, Stitch, Slash & Stitch. We were asked to bring a selection of fabrics together with our sewing machine.
It was so exciting to get back together again after months of Zoom meetings and textile artist and printmaker, Wendy Lloyd from Newbury spoke to a group of 40 members
Last weekend I visited the Chertsey Museum where they hold the Olive Matthews Collection of Dress and Textiles. This collection is described as “A spectacular collection featuring many items of
There have been some positive things about the last couple of years and some negative. One of the positive has been the use of Zoom to enable us to link
We had accepted places on the Jenny Adin-Christie workshop before Christmas so were looking forward to having to sit down and have a good reason for not dashing around anymore.
The weather outside was dreadful but inside Kennet Valley Hall there was a festive atmosphere. This was the first Christmas meeting of our new Textile Group and after a convivial
Textile Artist, Alison Hulme first visited our group to give a talk in June 2019 and we were keen for her to return to organise a workshop but Covid arrived
