Aunties – Sheila Davies shares her memorable childhood Sheila arrived with her husband, Rob from Wales for a two day visit to Marlborough with a car loaded with colourful, exciting […]
THE RED DRESS with inspiring Kirstie Macleod I have been following The Red Dress on social media for many years now. Last November, several days before my birthday, I noticed
Angela Knapp – creating vibrant lifelike birds through stitch Angela started our new season off with an inspirational talk about her distinctive machine and hand stitch birds. She explained she
Memorable July lunch with display of members’ work. Thanks to Vernice for taking these photos of the July lunch, our members and a selection of their work. Hopefully they will
Exciting batik & textile artist, Jenny O’Leary Jenny was our guest speaker for our June meeting.  She explained that she had studied ceramics at Wolverhampton and then gone on to
Felt making & dyeing – Bailey Curtis Bailey Curtis, our May speaker, has studied many skills over the years but two stand out, felt making and dyeing. She first saw
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
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
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
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
