Saturday, 23 July 2016

Nantwich Societies' Spectacular

Our enthusiasm was not dampened by the weather!

Our colourful stand attracted a lot of interest.




Friday, 1 July 2016

'bijoux birds'

Nicola Jarvis's workshop on 'bijoux birds' was a superb way of escaping from the outside world yesterday.  We worked on blackbirds or robins - no excuse for not entering the Chairman's challenge now!




Monday, 20 June 2016

July meeting


summer tea at lunchtime 


members only

bring your ticket and your reading glasses (if you need them!)


June meeting

Amanda Hislop gave a very interesting talk about her work.  She brought much for us to see including some beautiful and inspiring sketchbooks.




Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Next meeting

Our next meeting is June 16th, the speaker is Amanda Hislop talking about 'Landlines' and it is 'Bring a Friend' day






Sunday, 22 May 2016

May meeting

Our speaker was Suzette Smart


Suzette brought stunning examples of her clever, witty and extremely skilful machine embroideries








Another inspiring meeting - thank you Suzette!

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

2016 AGM

The 2016 AGM was held in Manchester on May 7th.
We mixed with the famous!



Jan Beaney, Jean Littlejohn, Diana Springall and others.

There were inspiring talks from Susie Vickery and Sian Martin, plus presentations from scholars and award winners.

The competition entries were great - 2 from our branch



Our Young Embroiderers won second prize in their competion





My favourite competition entry



A thoroughly enjoyable day - Edinburgh next year!