Thursday, January 16, 2025

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