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.

Christmas party 9th December

 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!