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 […]
Eight of us enjoyed this month’s workshop with Caroline Marriott. It was a lovely relaxing and stress free day. At times the concentration was so intense you could have heard
The speaker after our AGM this month was textile conservator, Alison Lister. Alison runs a private company, Textile Conservation Ltd, based in Bristol. She explained that most conservators hold an undergraduate
At our AGM on Monday Yvonne Miles stood down as Chairman after 7 years prior to that she was Secretary and speaker finder, making a total of 11 years. Shirley Watson
We had a lovely day. Carol was a great teacher with a relaxed manner. She talked to us for about an hour about tools, fabric and methods. We all had our own ideas
Carol Naylor applied initially for an art course at Goldsmiths, University of London, but was rejected. She was then offered a place on a new textile art course and Constance Howard
On Monday two of our members were awarded a certificate to commemorate 25 years as members of the Marlborough & District Embroiderers Guild. Ann Hampton, our Regional Chairman, presented the awards to
To celebrate “National Stitch Day” three members of our Guild spent a couple of hours in the library at Royal Wootten Bassett – Susan Pierce, Brenda Evans and Ann Kingdon. There was some
To celebrate the National Day of Stitch a group of Guild members visited Caf̩ Nero in Devizes and demonstrated a variety of techniques. From the left РRobina Orchard, Margaret Heath,
On Thursday we had our annual outing and this year Susanne S kindly organised a coach to take us to the Quilt Show at the NEC in Birmingham. For the
