Saturday 20th July–Hands-on day.

PLEASE NOTE the change of date. 

This will be a Hands-on session 'Distorted Textures & Formations'-
Bring marbled & Brusho fabrics prepared at Hands-On 13th Oct 2012, together with basic sewing kit & embroidery threads etc. Sue will have some spare prepared fabrics for those who did not attend the October hands-on.

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ALSO – All work from the exhibition will be returned at this meeting – if you cannot attend, please arrange for someone to collect your pieces for you.

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JULY MONTHLY RAFFLE - YELLOW

Bobby Shafto’s bright and fair, combing down his YELLOW hair……….

EXHIBITION WORKSHOPS

Connected to our Exhibition at the Art House Gallery we are running 3 short workshops as follows, and there are some places still available - please contact the Gallery on 0754 1156119 to book.

Saturday 15th June 11.30a.m to 1.30p.m
HAND STITCHED LANDSCAPES - with Sandra Kedzlie.  £15 includes kit of materials.

                

Saturday 15th June – 2 – 4p.m
NEEDLEFELTING with
Sue Chisnall-Sumner.
£15 to include materials.

Saturday 22nd June 1 to 4p.m
”Textile Landscapes with Encaustic Wax” with Sue Tyldesley - £15 to include  materials.

EXHIBITION PREVIEW EVENING

With over 75 pieces on display there was a lot to see at our Preview Evening so we do hope that you will like the photographs attached which will give you a flavour of the wide ranging work completed by our members.

If you haven’t been it is well worth a visit so do go and have a look and take friends and family.
Times of opening are Tuesday to Friday 11a.m to 3p.m and Saturdays 11a.m to 4p.m

Don’t forget to sign the Visitors Book!

 

Committee and visitors.
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A selection of work on show

 

           

SATURDAY 8th JUNE

PLEASE REMEMBER – to bring all your exhibition pieces to the meeting and anything you want to include in the ‘Work in Progress’ section.  Everything must be labelled, named and packed in a secure bag or container.

Hanging of work will depend on space available and will be carried out on Monday 10th, with the Private View starting at 7p.m that evening – we hope to see some of you there.

Also a reminder about the 3 short workshops we will be running – 2 on Saturday 15th – ‘Hand stitched Landscapes’ and ‘ Felted Landscapes’ and one on Saturday 22nd – ‘Encaustic fabric Landscapes’.
These must be booked directly with the Gallery on 0754 1156119

AND – don’t forget any items for our Bumper Raffle.
See you there……

 

PRESTON THREADS AT VOIRREY

To keep you in touch with what another of our Branch members’ exhibition groups is doing next – Preston Threads will be showing some of the work from the Fashion & Embroidery show at the NEC earlier this year.  SO if you missed it - this will be a chance to see a selection of the work which will be on show from 13th June to 13th July.

    

JUNE 11th to 22nd ‘SCAPES’ exhibition

The Branch are holding their first exhibition for 7 years and members were asked to base their work on ‘SCAPES’ of all kinds – Landscape, Seascape, Skyscape etc..

This work will be on show at the ART HOUSE Gallery on Eastbank Street, Southport.  The Gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays

We do hope that some of you will be able to come along – members of the Branch will be stewarding throughout the 2 weeks and will also be running 3 short Workshops which must be booked through the Gallery.

If you require further information on how to find us, opening times etc., you can contact the Gallery on 0754 1156119 – not as shown on the poster below.

June 8th Monthly meeting–TALK

Our speaker this month - Jane Smith will be talking on “Traditional Japanese Embroidery” – exquisite fine stitching in silk thread.  Highly coloured and technically perfect – oh I wish how I could do it but the ‘old eyes’ are not good enough now!!!!
SO I think the best thing to do is to sit back, enjoy and marvel at the stitching.
Come and join us to see how it should be done.

THE MONTHLY RAFFLE

This month ORANGE as in “Oranges and Lemons”……………

and don’t forget it is also time for the half year ‘bumper’ basket raffle of stitch/craft related items.  If you have anything to spare please bring it along.