Next Meeting: February 5th. Talk with Julia Triston, "Identity and Intimacy"

 Julia Triston is a designer-maker and educator in stitched textiles and contemporary art and design techniques. This will be a fascinating zoom talk starting at 1:00.

Stitching in the Dales, a three day stitching event in Grassington has been lucky enough to secure two more fabulous tutors this year. 

The event takes place May 7,8,9 at Grassington Town Hall and is open to any individual interested in enjoying three days of creative textile work. Please contact GTAG by the Blog contact form to receive further information and details.

The tutors are:

Laura Edgar, 

 "Coastal Northumbrian Castles Textile Workshop" . An example shown below, creating a coastal scene focussing on colour, texture, movement and light and all hand stitched.

 and

James Owen Thomas,

"Creating Collages from Recycled Materials", 

In our first session of 2025 our members exchanged their White-Intricate-Calm pieces of work. A selection illustrated below:

Red-Patterned-Daring will be the guide to the next piece of work!

It was a day of working on our own pieces

 

Next Meeting: January 15th. This will be a Stitch Day , and a chance to begin all those 2025 new projects. There is NOT a meeting on January 1st!

 What a fabulous end of year meeting.

The day began with a talk from Barbara Brown, “Journey as a Dress Maker”. Barbara gave an illustrated talk with a power point presentation and a huge number of examples of her work.

What a talented and prolific seamstress we have as a part of our group. The attention to detail, the lavish embellishments and the variety of garments that Barbara has produced was overwhelming and she is an inspiration to us all. From bridal wear to jackets and coats,

to bags and textile items, her talent is never ending. Thank you for sharing your amazing story and for the time you put in preparing such a fabulous presentation.

  

We did our Christmas card exchange

and finished the day with a superb Christmas buffet lunch prepared by our Chair Lady Judith. A big Thank you to Judith for providing such a great feast to finish off our year.

A  quick note to let you know that the December prompts for our Year of Colour project are:-

White - Intricate - Calm

Please bring your piece of work on Wednesday 15th January 2025 to swap (no meeting on 1st January!). Thanks.