Meeting 10th August 2024- 'Celtic Completion' with Sue

We will learn how to complete our Celtic vessels etc in readiness for the NW Textile Open Day 21st Sept.

Please bring your partially completed items with your sewing kits. If you have already completed it at home please bring it along.

Sue will be bringing additional items for you to use.

If you are not involved in this project just bring your own pieces of work & sewing kit to work on.

We will be holding our additional hour so the the meeting will start at 12.45pm again to work on your own pieces from home.

The colour raffle is - please bring your donations

We will be holding our pop up shop with plenty of opportunity to buy goodies- dont forget your cash.

Workshop with Joy - 27th July

 This workshop was brilliant, nice and relaxed and inspirational- plus my machine did not play up this time my sewing machine did not play up!!

Here are some photos from the day- such variety and most are not fully completed.

Parbold Village Festival 13th July 2024

 We had a great time this year, as the weather was a bit kinder to us then in 2023. We shared the show tent with WI and U3A so the footfall was a lot better.

As you can see from the photos below - taken kindly by Derek  that we had a good laugh, spoke to some lovely people about the group and sold a few items.

'Water Colour and Mark Making with free stitching and embellishments' with Joy Kilpatrick 27th July 2024

 Our next day workshop will be held on Saturday 27th July 'Water Colour and Mark Making with free stitching and embellishments' with Joy Kilpatrick-

The cost will be £23.00 for members & £28.00 for visitors

Requirements for ‘Water Colour with Stitch’ workshop with Joy Kilpatrick

27^th July 10.00am to 4.00pm

·               Sewing machine capable to able to free machine stitch/ foot pedal & leads/spare bobbins/needles/extension leads*/machine manual if possible

·               Machine sewing threads in your chosen colourways

·               If you prefer to only hand stitch or would like to include some hand stitch 

bring embroidery threads & needles

·               Paper & fabric scissors/water pot/

·               Embellishments eg beads/sequins etc*

·               Apron/ gloves if you do not want to get paint on your hands.

·               Water colour paints & brushes (optional)  

NB Joy will bring table coverings, watercolour paper, paints & brushes.She will also bring 2 sewing machines.

*Sue will also bring table coverings/extension leads/beads, sequins & embellishments.

Contact Sue to book - douglasvalleycs@gmail.com 

'Celtic Colours' with Sue Mini workshop 8th June

 We will develop our printed pieces of work from the April meeting, by adding stitch and embellishments.

For those that have already done this at home I will bring examples on construction.

NB There will be an opportunity for those who missed the April printing Meeting to make some more bases using Kunin Felt etc.

Please bring your bases made at the April meeting, along with a sewing kit and threads etc

Sue will bring all other materials including beads, sequins etc.

If you want to do some more base fabrics I would suggest you bring an apron. as it can get very mucky.

The colour raffle is Neutral- please bring your donations

We will also be holding our bumper raffle with loads of goodies.

We will try out for one more time the additional hour, so please try to attend from 12.45pm as if numbers are low we will have to cease the extra hour.

We will also be holding our sales table.

'Time & Tide' exhibition 31st May to 16th June at Astley Hall Coach House, Chorley- Natural Progression Textile Group & Douglas Valley Creative Stitchers

 The exhibition looks brilliant and we have had some really great feedback. One being this is art! a very rare comment that someone who is a painter recognises that textile pieces are in fact ART and not craft alone.

We have had quite a few visitors and the children have enjoyed the making table- cross stitch book marks, printed fabric and so on- in fact so did the adults!!

Below are some photos taken just after it was installed.

                                                                       The play area

Fantastic Fans a workshop with Nikki Parmenter 18th May

 Our numbers attending were low but the members really enjoyed making our fans.

Below are some photos taken on the day.

                                                              Examples of Nikki's work

                                                               Members at work

                                                        Some nearly there pieces