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
Unfortunately our scheduled speaker, Meike Laurenson was not able to attend our November meeting so members were shown exerts from the Colouricious Talking Threads Christmas DVD. Textile Artist, Gilda Barron
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
We had to change the plans for our May meeting as unfortunately our speaker Helen Deighan could not attend due to ill health. Instead we all enjoyed an informal afternoon
For our March meeting the Textile Artist, Lynda Monk talked about creating surface textures using varying techniques and materials. Thirty years ago Lynda enrolled on a C & G machine
For our first meeting of 2015 Helen Thomas’ talk was entitled “Papers are textiles too”. She studied art and sewing at school and quilting and patchwork in her spare time
