The competition title this year was "Light".
Now that we no longer have a YE group at Parbold, one of our original members Sarah Ruaux has become an individual member and entered this competition with "Star of Light".
This is what Sarah said, who is a bit off colour with some horrible bug that most of her year has had!
" I made a template for the design by drilling holes in perspex using Grandad's bench drill. Then I drilled the holes into the slate using my template. After a lot of drilling I started to embroider the slate with nice rainbow coloured threads. These were couched onto the slate. The star was made from layers of padded silver and gold fabric and decorated with glass beads. Then at the very end I finished off by writing, in beads, words from the Christmas carol (slightly adapted) : " star of wonder, star of light, star of beauty, burning bright." It took 68 hours to complete.
Grandad (John Clark) took the photograph.
John, Sue – his daughter, and Sarah all come to our meetings and it is so nice to see a family that is passing on the tradition of stitch through three generations.
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