Next Meeting: Wednesday October 5th - Workshop with Donna Cheshire

A wild flower mini hoop workshop with Donna Cheshire and inspired by wild flowers, applique and free style machine embroidery, lace, hand stitch, buttons, and vintage fabrics.

Next Meeting: Wednesday Sept 21st- Stitch Day

This is a day to work on your own pieces and to share ideas and inspiration. Please contact the secretary if you would like to be included for the workshop with Donna Cheshire on Oct 5th. I am sure this will be a superb day working on a machine embroidered wild flower piece.

Sept 7th - Alison Larkin - Tudor Needlework

Our guest speaker at the AGM was Alison Larkin, an embroiderer, author and teacher, specialising in hand embroidery and traditional stitching. She gave a wonderfully researched and illustrated talk about "Tudor Needlework" to our members in Grassington at our first meeting of our 2022/23 programme. Alison explained that she loved historical work, especially the embroidery worked on costume and accessories. Using paintings of the Tudor period she explained and pointed out the designs, materials and needlework techniques of this era and has worked to redevelop those skills and ideas for modern stitchers. She explained that she had been embroidering and dressmaking for as long as she could remember and has made several period costumes to wear as an illustration of various periods in history. Her work extends from museum quality replicas to items which bring the techniques of the past to modern life. Below are some of the samples sewn by Alison.