November meeting our planned speaker was unable to visit, fortunately a new speaker was found. Susannah Midwinter a specialist in Antique Textiles and Embroidery gave an excellent presentation which she illustrated with a wonderful collection of artefacts ranging from 16th century Blackwork, 17th Century Raisedwork (stumpwork)including a box dated 1660, 18th century samplers, clothing including an embroidered Edwardian dress, Chinese jackets and Japanese Kamino.
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| Blackwork from 16th Century |
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| Stumpwork box 1660 |
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| Embroidery on Kamino |
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| Edwardian dress with chainstitch decoration |
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| Chinese jackets with embroidered decoration and sleeve bands |
Next meeting is 18th 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.
21st 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.
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Turquoise bag inspired by the Tessellated mosaic at Chedworth National Trust |
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Poppies 1914/18, inspired by the lady who picked and placed the poppies where a soldier died. |
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Mail bags on wheels which linked to form a train inspired by the suffragettes who placed explosive devices into mail boxes. |
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| 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.
Connected Threads
On 16th 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 21st October 2021 is ‘A Journey through Time’ by Judith Rowley.
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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.
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.
