Douglas Valley Creative Stitchers: August 2023

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Workshop 'Crewel work & Beading' with Mel Charters 21st October 2023 10.00am to 4.00pm

Mel will show us how she does her beautiful crewelwork and beaded pieces on a full day workshop on Sat 21st October 10.00am to 4.00pm at Parbold Village Hall, The Green, Parbold WN8 7DN

£20.00 pp members and £23.00 pp visitors

Requirements list-

NB -Mel likes to keep to one colour palette for all materials eg fabric, threads and beads-

but you can use a variety of colours if you so wish

·       Plain cotton or linen fabric in colour you like (preferable not to use white) this can be dyed or purchased fabric and it will need to be larger than your hoop.

·       Embroidery Floss or cotton Perle threads in a range of shades the same colour as your fabric.

·       A range of small beads in different shades of your chosen fabric and thread colour – seed & bugle beads etc would be good. NB Mel will have small amounts of beads for sale.

·       Sewing Kit which includes a beading needle as well as standard needles, pencil, sewing and beading threads, small scissors etc.

·       5” to 7” hoop.

·       A lightbox if you have one. NB Mel and Sue will bring theirs.

Please contact Sue on douglasvalleycs@gmail.com to book a place

Meeting 9th September - A.G.M. & Show & Tell

Another year has flown by and we will be starting our 3rd year as Douglas Valley Creative Stitchers.

Our A.G.M. is upon us when we can look back on the last year and forward to another exciting year.

As well as a business meeting, we will have Kay Kellaway talking and showing us some samplers, and Nicky Robertson displaying the James Webb Quilted wall hanging and explaining details of each embroidery etc.

Our Colour raffle is RED, so donations are welcome in that colourway.

We would also like you to bring in donations of fabric. threads, beads etc for out bumper Christmas raffle- please pass them to Donna.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Meeting August 12th

Well we are already ack to our last meeting for this current programme, and it should be a relaxing and enjoyable one. Doesn't time fly?

Please bring your UFOs to finish, sit and stitch, socialise.

Entry is free this month for members, and the committee will be serving you a special thankyou treat for all your hard work and support..

We will be having our shop, so please bring any fabrics. threads etc you wish to sell. Just ensure they are suitably packaged, show your name & the price. You would also be advised to bring a container marked with your name for any monies from sales. 15% of sales monies go to the group.

We will also be selling surplus books from the library & raffle donations at really reasonable prices.

This months Colour Raffle is Pink, please bring your donations.

Next month is our annual AGM which will hopefully be a short as possible, to allow time to hear our two show & tell talks from Nicky and Kay- more to follow on that in the next newsletter.

Parbold Festival report & photos

This year we had a couple of tables in the big marquee, and thank goodness!!

We set up in sunshine and finished early in a thunderstorm and gales.- but we kept dry!

Many of the outside stalls were in a bad way. with tents blowing away and gazebos collapsing.

The downside of being in the main tents was poor footfall, however I have suggested that stalls selling textiles/crafts be in the main tent next year, with better signage.

Here are a few photos taken on the day before the big storm hit.