This year the monthly Colour Raffle has been based on images from space and there are some wonderful pictures coming up over the months.
October’s colour will be – BROWN –
based on the ALGERIAN SAHARA
If you will be working an A3 page for the Branch Themed Folder this will be the colour to work with.
Committee members should note that there will be a meeting starting at 12 noon, before the afternoon meeting at 2p.m.
This months speaker will be Isobel Hall, who visited us last November for a fascinating workshop on Stitching with Paper.
This time she will be talking about Mixed Media and Stitch and we look forward to an interesting afternoon.
Isobel writes on her website -
“My personal obsession is that I like to embroider and work with fabrics that have been made from scratch. Experimental sketchbook work is important for me and I go on to create items that are fit for purpose so my bags, books, vessels, boxes and jewellery all have to be robust and useable.
I started as a traditional hand embroiderer and over the years gradually made the move over to being a mixed media textile artist who uses machine embroidery but who maintains a love for traditional stitching”
As most of you know we always have a Special Bumper Christmas Raffle of 3 baskets packed with great ‘stitchy’ things.
Nicky will start in October by collecting items you might like to donate – anything from fabrics, threads, books, beads etc. etc…
SO if you have anything that you have spare please bring along to the October and November meetings to make this a ‘Bumper’ event.
Many thanks.
For almost 3 years some of our Branch members have been involved in supporting the Linus Project, by making knitted blankets; small patchwork quilts, for traumatised children in hospitals etc.
Angela McLarnon is organising this project and will be running a Drop-in session at her home at 24 Pear Tree Road, Croston PR26 9HX from 10a.m to 4p.m on Saturday 27th September.
Anyone who would like to assist for an hour or so will be most welcome – help is needed with joining together a collection of donated knitted squares into comfort blankets, or to stitch fabric patches for quilt tops.
If you have any crochet hooks please bring with you to do the joining of the knitted squares and Angela will provide everything else.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Our AGM confirmed our new fees and one new committee member for the coming year.
We were also very pleased to welcome 3 new members joining us on the day and hope they will enjoy their time with us.
2 of these have joined after our National Stitch Day demonstration at Ormskirk Library.
The business meeting was followed by the launch of the Travelling Books project to members and we had a fantastic take up for this with 25 of them ‘signing up’ for their first ‘journey’.
We are really looking forward to seeing what comes back to the October meeting.
Some members cannot always make the monthly meetings so we have also started an alternative A3 Branch Folder with loose-leaf pages which can be added to at any time – based on the monthly Colour raffle satellite images.
About 8 to 10 members have already decided to join this group - the topic for September – ‘ Bay of Biscay’ – Orange.
Keep a lookout for these topics each month on the Blog.
We thought this folder would also be useful as a demonstration piece to take to future Library Days, Exhibitions and other events.
The start of a new year for our Branch with the commencement of our 2014-15 Programme and election of Committee members. Also subscriptions will be due.
A NEW PROJECT - “Travelling Books”
The Branch committee have been trialling this project since January and our Books will be on show for you to look at.
For those of you who are interested in joining in (19 so far), we will have some ideas to share and discuss. You will not be working alone but in groups of 6 so that you can encourage each other to try something new. If you cannot get to the meeting but would be interested in taking part please let me know and I can send some information.
Below are some pages that have already been completed in the current books – a wide variety of themes, designs, techniques and stitches.
Woven Sari knitting ribbons – machine stitched, make a good fabric for scarves, bags etc.
Machine stitch on paper – Tree Design
Architectural design – drawings and stitch samples.
NEW COLOUR RAFFLE TOPIC –
‘THE WORLD FROM ABOVE’
SEPTEMBER – ORANGE
Bay of Biscay
Thanks to 6 of our members – Anne Baldwin, Judith Bradshaw, Angela McLarnon, Deborah McLarnon-Riches, Kay Kellaway and myself – from 10a.m to 2p.m we were very busy answering questions, demonstrating stitches and talking about some of the work on display.
More importantly we had a lot of visitors who stopped to try some stitching and many of them took away the short introductory programme for our new year events so we do hope they come to see us soon.
We would like to thank the Library staff for their hospitality on the day which included tea and coffee – and to Alison Davies who provided the photographs.
