Meeting 13th April 'Celtic Connections' with Sue

 Hi our meeting tomorrow will be all about connecting with our Celtic theme.

I will be demonstrating mixed media techniques and how these can be used to make unique bases for vessels, book covers etc.

I will be supplying the materials, so you do not need to bring any stuff.

You may however wish to bring an apron & gloves.

I have plenty of table covers and I will set up stations for you to experiment on.

If you don't fancy playing with mucky stuff- I will be bringing my lightbox and Celtic design books and you will have the opportunity to trace designs off onto cream cotton fabric which I will supply. In that case you may wish to bring a selection of threads, a 6-8" hoop, beads etc

Margaret is not attending the meeting as still recovering from her recent hip operation, but she has sent me some pre traced fabric for you to use.

We will be holding our additional stitch hour, so please bring anything you are working on and your sewing kit.

The hall will be open from 12.30pm and I would appreciate some help in setting up.

The colour raffle is purple so please bring your donations.

Donna still requires general raffle donations for our bumper June raffle. Stitch related items only.

We will also be holding our sales table, so please bring plenty of cash.

I will also be taking bookings for Nikki Parmenter workshop which will be held on Sat 18th May, you can pay by BACS and I have printed off the details on how to pay.

For those exhibiting their Time & Tide pieces of work, please bring them to the meeting and pass them to me.

Amendments to our 2023-2024 programme

 

  13th April 2024- Mini Workshop 'Celtic Connections' with Sue

  11th May 2024- Talk with Janet Gleaves 'A Good Way to Unwind'

   8th June 2024- Mini workshop 'Celtic Colours' with Sue & Margaret   

   13th July 2024- Parbold Festival 

   10th August 2024- Mini Workshop 'Celtic Completion' with Sue and Margaret

   We have currently extended our meetings to include a sit and stitch session in the hall from

   12.30pm to 1.30pm. After which our normal meeting will start at 2.00pm for 2.15pm

   Full Day workshops 10.00am to 4.00pm

   18th May 2024- 'Fantastic Fans' with Nikki Parmenter

   27th July 2024- 'Water Colour and Mark making with Free Stitching and Embellishment' 

   with Joy Kilpatrick

          

Mini Workshop 'Celtic Design' with Sue

 Unfortunately Margaret is unable to run this mini workshop due to her operation - which I am pleased to say has gone well.

So you are stuck with me, and Caroline who will assist.

We will be stencilling, stitching and using mixed media eg. Kunin felt, Tyvek and Lutrador, along with distressing agents and paint.

A short list of requirements will be available in the next few days

But members are advised to bring aprons, sewing kits etc.

Sue will provide most of the materials.

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'Wax Lyrical' a talk by Joy Kilpatrick 9th March

 This talk was brilliant and went down well with the group members.

Joy gave a presentation of her wide range of art work, which is predominately ceramics, but incorporates stitch on watercolour paper and batik.

  She has agreed to run a workshop 'Watercolour and Mark Making with free machine stitching and Embellishment' on 27th July instead of Batik.

'Celtic Design' a talk with Margaret Wilkinson 10th February 2024

 We are now in a new year and looking forward to a full and exciting programme.

January's zoom talk ' For the Love of Stitch' with Anne Brooke went really well, with no hic-ups on the technical side, and a really inspiring talk with Anne.

We are now back to our live meetings with Margaret's talk on 10th, which is a taster for our three mini workshops during this year.

Margaret will talk about the history of Celtic Art and how it affects aspects of our lives today.

She will have examples of current pieces of jewellery, ornaments and textiles.

Our colour raffle is 'Peaches and Oranges' - please bring your donations of textile goodies.

We will also be holding an additional 'Stitching Hour' and the hall will be open from 12.15pm- please bring your sewing kits and any piece of work you wish to complete/ start/ show.

Also we will be having a shop table, so please bring any items you wish to sell. Please ensure they are suitably packaged, labelled with your name & price and you bring a container for the money.

We also have a few places left on Kath Roberts workshop 'Tyvek Flowers' on sat 24th February- £20.00 for members/visitors £23.00-please see Sue re booking a place.

Workshop 'Tyvek Flowers' with Kath Roberts 24th February 2024

 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.

Zoom Talk 13th January 2024-'For the Love of Stitch'- with Anne Brooke

 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.