2024 Notice board - 

Connected Threads -Stitch together

Meets twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Monday from 9.30 - 12.30, at St Annes Community Hub Nantwich . Open to all members, £3.00 fee payable at each meeting, bring your own stitching/knitting etc.

Tea/Coffee Rota

16th May  - Sue B, Stevie N,

New co ordinator for tea/coffee  is Lynn

Exhibition 1st May to 6th July 2024 at Nantwich Museum 'The Seasons'

Please submit you work for the exhibition at the meeting on 18th of April or asap after that date to Trisha.

NB All work should have a label including:  the name of the contributor, description of piece, value for insurance,whether it is for sale or not.

List for volunteers to sign up for any of the 4 Saturday's identified, 11th and 25th May, 8th and 22nd June .

Hoping to have 2 volunteers present to talk to visitors about the group, work and pieces in the exhibition.

Opening time is 10.00 to 15.00 divided up into 2 sessions eg 10.00 - 12.00 and 12.00 - 15.00.

If insufficient numbers of volunteers available idea will be abandoned.

 

16th March 2023

'A layered story'  presentation by Suzette Smart

 

Suzette has always stitched and created starting at a young age, using kits, weaving , sewing etc and this is what she always wanted to do. She did a B Tech in Art and Design which involved collage and wire and then went on to a degree in Fashion and Textile design.

Whilst her children were young Suzette bought a machine which she used for free embroidery, creating stories and thread pictures (no fabric used). This constrained the size of her pieces of work so she included fabric, this has also involved repurposing of pieces of existing work into her new work through the process of collage.

 
Piece created for Exhibition in 2016 - used a vintage dress as the base /foundation which Suzette cut up and re put together - it is based on a map of where she lives with journeys depicted in thread.

For this Suzette used a dress that she had as a child as a template and then included ideas from nature. She uses pieces of fabric with memories, paint, mixed media to recreate the dress shape and decorates it with birds, flowers, fruits and words.

This was inspired from the garden during the 'lockdown' period, with the darker flowers reflecting the mood. The background was created using fabric crayons for the rubbings with the story being told in the top layers (flowers/words etc)

This piece is worked on a old tablecloth and features hexagons, windows, (open fabric to reveal image) animals which are created through stitch and then applied and images transfered onto fabric which is cut up and collaged onto the background.

 16th February 2023

'World Textiles' presented by Sue Simper 

Sue is a teacher with a passion for textiles, she has taught creative textiles and been involved with the Quilters Guild. Throughout she has collected a wide variety of textiles from around the world to provide inspiration, record traditional making techniques as well as patterns/decoration, identify lifestyles and cultures of the people who made them.

 

We enjoyed looking at and handling the textiles and were encouraged to think about and discuss, how they were made, what they were used for , where they originated, what they told us about where people lived, their beliefs etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Mini Workshop from 1pm 

Print and Stitch Rolls  (first of two mini workshops)

First workshop session will be printing