Next meeting is 18^th November 2021 with a presentation by Victoria Riley on ‘The Art of Batik’

Following the meeting is a mini workshop guided by one of our members.

21^st October 2021

This was our second meeting of Connected Threads , with two visitors joining members for our first face to face speaker in 20 months.

We are arranging a Christmas Celebration with a surprise speaker and for the months ahead also have a selection of mini workshops planned.

Our speaker was Judith Rowley with ‘A Journey through Time’ outlining her journey to date. This started with an early love of making things, then  becoming a Primary teacher and progressing via a diploma in stitch textiles to being a textile artist with a focus on fabric manipulation, hand and machine stitch. Judith has always been interested in history and the past so uses this to inform her textile art as can be seen from the selection of her work.

Turquoise bag inspired by the
Tessellated mosaic at
 Chedworth National Trust

Poppies 1914/18,
 inspired by the lady who picked
 and placed the poppies 
 where a soldier  died. 

 

Mail bags on wheels which linked to form
 a train inspired by the suffragettes
who placed explosive devices into mail boxes.

  

Childs dress embroidered with
faces of babies who were
 left behind when the
 suffragettes were jailed.

 

Scarf created for fashion icon
Wallace Simpson which was inspired 
by finding the 1930's black bag.

'On the Box' people would pay into a
 'Friendly Society' putting money into
the box weekly to support the
 family in times of need 

Inspired by a piece of William Morris
 fabric which was cut up and then inlaid
 into apiece of work which
incorporated the colours and idea
 of strawberries from the original fabric.