Next Meeting: September 20th, Using an Embellisher

 Christine Stanford's talk, "A Stitch Back in Time" after our AGM at the last meeting,  was a superb start to our new 2023-2024 Textile Art Programme in Grassington. Christine described her journey in stitching and illustrated it with some wonderful photographs of her work as it developed through time. She also brought with her a selection of her pieces for us to handle and admire. Christine's enthusiasm for her passion in stitching and textiles was highly infectious and just what we needed to start our own autumn journeys in needlework. 

We are looking forward to a varied and exciting year with this dynamic textile group in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

The photos below are just a small selection of Christine's work illustrating her amazing talent.

At our next meeting, there will be a workshop on using the Embellisher.

Next Meeting: September 6th, AGM and talk by Christine Stanford

 Where has August gone!

This Wednesday, August 16th, our Tutor was Judith Barlass who introduced a number of us to our sewing machine's hem stitch  and twin needles. 

We had a wonderful day on Wednesday, 3rd August, when Kate Slaughter followed up last month's talk about her crafting career with a playful session on preparing backgrounds for future projects.

A pleasant, friendly, helpful and generous tutor, Karen brought with her an enticing array of materials and tools and showed us how to use wax crayons, transfer paints, textile medium, stencils, threads, etc to colour natural and synthetic fabrics to use in time to come.

We all went home full of ideas and inspiration.