AGM and Regional Day

Last week was very busy indeed!

On Thursday it was the AGM followed by coffee and cake.

At the meeting we collected in the 'Postcards from Audlem' - 40 cards were received.

The photos below are poor but they do give a flavour of the variety. They will look excellent when made into a hanging and hopefully will be much admired in the new Public Hall.

Saturday was Regional Day and the culmination of months of planning.  It was well received and enjoyable. There was shopping!

An inspirational young speaker - Hanny Newton

Machine embroidery and hand embroidery sections of the competition were won by members of our branch!

So a successful day all round!

July meeting

This month's meeting was a series of "Have a Go" demonstrations of techniques for creating surfaces for stitch.  These included monoprinting, dynaflow painting, transfer printing, silk papermaking, waxing and oiling paper.

The meeting concluded with a Jacob's Feast which rounded off another excellent year for our branch.

June meeting

Pauline Barnes brought some beautiful quilts inspired by her trips to Mexico and Guatemala.
Her talk introduced us to some of the beautiful buildings and textile traditions of the countries.

May Meeting

Judith Rowley shared her 'Creative Journey' with us today.
She explained how she developed her ideas into textile pieces for exhibitions.  Her work and samples were interesting and inspiring.

Liz Almond - Japanese Kogin darning

Today's workshop was a real delight!
Liz was an excellent tutor and it is was impossible not to be fired by her enthusiasm.  We learnt a great deal and had a thoroughly enjoyable day.  If you are not familiar with Liz's website visit
www.blackworkjourney.co.uk

Ann Paterson

Our April meeting was a talk by Ann Paterson and what a superb speaker she was!
Her talk embraced history, politics, textile techniques, design and much more - all delivered with knowledge and humour.

Ruth Colley, our programme secretary, has been unable to hear the last three inspirational speakers as she has been unwell. However she is still working away at the next 2 years' programmes on our behalf. She does an incredible job in finding such a variety of speakers to entertain and inform us. She contributes hugely to the success of our branch and we hope that she feels well enough to join us again soon.