Main Meetings

Helen Colling was introduced to needlework at an early age and was encouraged by her City & Guilds tutor to apply for a 3 year Stitched Textile Diploma with Jan […]

Caroline Kirton’s talk on Monday was entitled “Telling Tales” and after a while it became clear as to why she had chosen this title.  As a mature student after the

After our summer break we welcomed Isabelle Jourdan to speak about her great interest in spinning and weaving.   It started when she and her husband were running an olive

Lisa opened her talk by speaking about her 15 year background as a textile designer for the fashion industry, as well as teaching Sixth Form and University students.  After completing

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

Emily Jo Gibbs started the New Year off with a fascinating talk about her work and techniques.  She got her knowledge of sewing from her mother rather than from studying

Unusually for a textile artist Ruth did not study for a degree in textiles but Medieval History. Having been fascinated in fabrics since childhood Ruth took a special interest in

Kirsty Whitlock was the speaker at our open meeting this month and her talk was entitled “My journey through stitch”.    Her interest in stitch started when she followed an NVQ