Silk Squares

Our speaker in June was Rubina Porter, who described to us her work at the Sreepur Village Project.

Amongst the items that she had on display was a silk embroidered quilt, which was not for sale. When we expressed some interest in it Ruby invited us to embroider a square.We took 20 squares and stitched a flower of our choice on each.

The squares will be put together by the ladies at Sreepur  to make a quilt that will be auctioned or raffled for fundraising.

The squares were posted after Christmas and I received an e-mail from Ruby to say thank you to everyone, and how lovely she thought they looked.

December Meeting

This month Kathryn Thompson came to show us some of her wonderful "Dolls with Attitude,"and they definitely had plenty. Kathryn was even wearing some

There was lots of very good information on the tecniques that she used, as well as some special tools and fabrics.

She told us how she made them stand, and how she made  the hinged dolls.

This doll is being used as a book illustration.

Johnny Depp or Charles 1st

This lady has more attitude than most.

To go with the exhibition, many members had worked hard to produce small items for sale.We were again given the use of the Altrincham Onwards premises to set up our sales table,

and  members took turns on duty during the week of the sale.

Our own members made a great contribution to the successs of the sale.Any remaining items were on sale after our A.G.M.

Many thanks are due to Diana,our secretary who worked extremely hard to make it a success.

She is shown here with a  customer.

 

 

DECEMBER

I am catching up on my posts again so that I am ready to start afresh in January.

One of my New Year resolutions is to keep this blog up to date

Our Exhibition

As there are too many pieces to show,I have included one picture to represent work from all those members whose

work was on show.Apologies if I have missed anyone out.

We had a varied selection of lovely work in a good location.

 

National Sewing Day

For the National Sewing Day we were given the use of some premises belonging to Altringham Forward on Shaw's road. Altrinham.

As it was a lovely sunny day the glass sliding doors were fully open and relays of us spent a few pleasant hours showing our various embroidery skills to passers by, despite a little competition from a flower stall outside.

As well as having the turquoise squares on display, members had each brought one or two pieces of their own finished work.

Some of the work being done was to exhibit or sell in September.some were sewing  the silk squares forRubina Porter, and others were working on their current project.

JULY

Sorry it has been such an age since the last posting. So many things in the way...Holidays,gardening,visits to flower shows, Finding somewhere to fit in all the new plants from the holidays and flower show.

But back to embroidery. Like many of us , I am working on my piece for the exhibition at the Sale Waterside Gallery in September.

In June, Ruby Porter spoke to us about her involvement in the Sreepur village in Bangladesh; home to 600 destitute women and children who are trained in all aspects of textiles.We were able to admire and buy many of their lovely products.

 

Ruby can just be seen surrounded by members admiring the work.

There were some lovely cards and bookmarks

Where is my purse?

 

 This quilt was being raffled and members were invited to embroider a flower on a silk square to make another one. It was suggested by a visitor that it might be a worthwhile project for the branch. We have got 20 square sto embroider. My sister and I have been taking advantage of the lovely weather to sit in the garden to work on ours.

Below are some of the squares from this quilt.