Kath is running a day workshop 10.00am to 4.00pm 'Tyvek Flowers' on Saturday 24th February 2024 at Parbold Village Hall.
The cost will be £20.00 for Douglas Valley Creative Stitchers members and £23.00 for visitors.
You must be fairly familiar with free machine embroidery and own a sewing machine capable of this.
Please contact Sue on douglasvalleycs@gmail.com for further details on booking.
We will be holding a zoom talk on Saturday 13th January and this will be open to members at £4.00 and visitors at £5.00.
Anne is well known to be a great speaker and will tell us about her journey to discover her love and passion for stitch- something we can all relate to.
Anne & I will co-host this session which will start at 2.00pm for 2.15 start & finish around 4.00pm
please contact Sue at douglasvalleycs@gmail.com to book onto this talk.
We had a really great meeting and a good attendance, considering the rather blustery & wet weather. However at least we did not have to cancel it this time. Last year snow & ice which is not a good combination for some of our older members.
We had a good array of food for our Jacobs Join, and although some of the quizzes were challenging I know the ladies enjoyed themselves.
We even had a visit from Santa who handed out some lovely presents-
The bumper raffle was very exciting and a huge thanks to Donna for sorting out three lovely bags of goodies- I didn't win anything - however that's a blessing as I am trying to get rid of my enormous stash!!!
The colour raffle- brown & Gold was beautiful and I think won by our new member Jackie.
The stitch project went down well, and the members produced some lovely snowmen - some were not quite finished but I'm sure they will be at home.
Paula Madill won first prize with her lovely complete Santa Snowman, and as one member pointed out this was only possible if you did not make the food your priority- its a good job I didn't attempt to make one!!!
As you can see below we had a huge selection of rather diverse snowmen- wonderful!
Brilliant talk from Liz with a huge amount of samples of her work and examples of Sacred Geometry in readiness for her workshop Nov 2024.
She gave us an insight into her inspiration for the subject which included travel to far flung countries and included descriptions of mosque interiors which brought it to light.
Here are a few of my photos taken on the day with Liz's permission.
We will be meeting earlier than usual - 12.00 as we have a full programme today, with a Jacob's Join, colour raffle, bumper raffle, quizzes, games and a fun stitch project.
In addition we will still have a sales table.
NB I will be advertising our Jan 13th Zoom meeting, and I will post the details later.
Please remember to bring the basic requirements, along with your Jacobs Join food, any further donations for the bumper raffle & colour raffle- Browns & Golds (see Donna)
Requirement list for 9th
Dec meeting (start 12.00 noon)
General sewing kit incl fabric scissors/ embroidery scissors/paper
scissors
Embroidery threads eg stranded/ perle
Pencil/pen or similar to mark coloured felt eg tailors chalk or fabric
marker
Tracing paper or baking parchment
Small scraps of felt (preferably wool mix not acrylic) *
Beads/buttons/sequins *
Small embellishments eg lace, ribbons etc*
We will provide you with patterns, instructions, white felt, toy stuffing etc.
Sue will also have items * so please do not go out and buy
anything.
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| Dec colour raffle |
We had a brilliant time with Mel showing us how to stitch designs using thread and beads. This was based on traditional crewel work techniques but with a contemporary twist.
Here are a few of the pieces of work from our members- most of them were not yet complete - spot the finished ones!!!
We are having a talk by Liz Almond on 'Sacred Geometry' and she will be bringing a huge amount of samples to show us (4 tables worth!!!)
We will learn how to complete our Celtic vessels etc in readiness for the NW Textile Open Day 21st Sept. Please bring your partially complet...
