Connected Threads

On 16^th September 2021 we held the inaugural meeting of our newly independent stitch group at Audlem Town Hall.

It was exciting to be able to meet together, after 19 months, to celebrate the new group, catch up with friends, look at and discuss the work members had produced. Throughout the enforced break we had, via ‘Zoom’, enjoyed talks and presentations delivered by a variety of speakers, attended virtually the Connected Threads 2 stitching group, for a stitch and chat, and participated in 3 online workshop sessions delivered by Ann Kelly. Other practical stitch projects undertaken were the postcard swap, with 40 cards being created and the ‘hearts’ which were exhibited virtually by Nantwich Museum in lieu of the postponement of our exhibition.

At the meeting which featured the AGM we also had a sales table providing the opportunity to ‘restock’, a raffle and to finish cake and tea/coffee.

The programme for the coming year 2021/22 includes a selection of speakers, various workshops, our exhibition in November and December at Nantwich Museum as well as the sales table and monthly raffle.

The next meeting on the 21^st October 2021 is ‘A Journey through Time’ by Judith Rowley.

 

News Update

At last we are able to meet again in person, I hope you all have September 16th in your diaries.  As before the doors will open at 10.00am and the meeting will start at 10.30.  Please feel free to wear masks if you want, we will have sanitizer available and doors and windows open, so please wear extra layers if you think you will need them. 

This first meeting will be our opening AGM.  It will give you all a chance to meet and chat, we will bring you up to date with our plans and our financial situation, you will all receive a programme for 2021-2022 and we would love it if you have ideas and suggestions for our future activities and speakers.

We would also like to have a display of work that you have done over the last twelve months.  In particular we would love you to bring in your stitched hearts, your postcards, your work from the Anne Kelly workshop but we would love to see anything you have made. 

There will have the sales table open but we are not able to accept anymore donations of goods at the moment as we do have rather a lot in our cupboard.

We also will be having a raffle for a bag of goodies.  This month the colour is Blue, so if you have any blue items that you would like to donate to the raffle then please bring them along.

What a year!

It's been a long time since the last post and how the world has changed! Hopefully we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel now. 

The news from Guild headquarters is not good but we intend to carry on as an independent stitching group.

We will know more after Thursday's meeting and will move forward from there.  Emails, Facebook announcements and posts on here will keep you up to date until we can meet again.

November and December

In November Joanne Frankel brought her colourful, ebullient work for us to admire. Many were inspired by her talk.

The December meeting was our Christmas lunch.

The speaker was Ruth Lowe on all things Mary Quant. A nostalgic trip down memory lane for many of us.

A very sociable lunch finished off another good year for the branch.

                                                 

                                                 

The table gifts were pincushion mice

                                       

The swap was a Christmas decoration

                                      

Catch up

In July the first Maggie Phillips lecture was delivered by Sarah Burgess. She gave an excellent talk and brought really interesting work for us to look at.

September was our AGM, Chair’s challenge and stitching activity

Daphne Ashby won the Chair’s challenge ‘inspired by’

The blue project was displayed for the first time and much admired

The October meeting is 'Journey Cloths' by Cherrilyn Tyler

July meeting

The first Maggie Phillips Memorial Lecture will take place on July 18th.
The speaker is Sarah Burgess and the title of her lecture is

'DIS/rupting Influences'

This should be a great way to end another successful year for the branch.

May and June meetings

In May Brenda Scarman showed us examples of her many textile talents

Witty captions too!

In May there was also a day workshop with Jane Fairweather  - Oak trees in teacups

These are Jane's, look out for ours at next year's exhibition

In June Alice Fox gave us a fascinating talk on  'Findings'.  

We displayed our beautiful new bunting 

Also in June, Connected Threads 2 presented a banner to Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre