Easter Holidays

Unfortunately we had to cancel last weeks fabric flower demonstration because of illness and that is also the reason there are no pictures from last week.

This week was the last before the Easter holidays (we are back on the 12th April) and it was a normal Friay social afternoon. Liz brought her beautiful houses that will be part of a large project in Swansea. Ruth brought some pages of a fabric book she is making based on her father-in-laws carvings.

Happy Easter everyone!

Birds, Carvings and Experiments

Friday 8th March was a normal Friday social afternoon. We all got on well with our stitching. Carolyn is still stitching her bird. It is sometimes nice to stitch something that is almost painting by numbers especially with all the talking that goes on on a Friday! Ruth is stitching an experimental book based on her father-in-laws carvings. She brought in 2 pages to ask for help and was offered lots of ideas.

Kaleidoscopes

We are doing a competition based on kaleidoscopes for a regional day and we are nearly all desperate for inspiration. Robi kindly said she would run a brainstorming session for us and I think it went rather well. Most of us seem to have come away with something we can use. Thank you Robi!

Friday 22nd February I had visitors so I can't tell you all the things that happened because I wasn't there!

Friday 15th February was half term, so there was no meeting.

Sorry for the delay posting this.

The photos are of Margaret's kaleidoscope entry, Jill's angels (yes she is still making them!) and a piece by Liz that will be part of a project the guild were asked to help with

April's Textile Collection

Sorry there was no post two weeks ago, I didn't go to the meeting that week, so there was nothing to report :@)

Last Friday April showed us some of the beautiful textiles she has collected from her travels. Unfortunately I only have three pictures to show and they have not come out very well. Each piece was so different to the others and they all had a story to tell. It was a lovely afternoon.

ATCs and Workshop Bags

Robi showed us how to make ATCs by using up our stash of samples. She showed us how to make a viewing window to pick out a section of our unused samples to give them a new lease of life. She also brought some ATCs with her to show and inspire us and gave us ideas as to how to display them.

Beverly also brught her bags to show us what we will be making in her workshop on the 9th March. Please contact me if you would like to come along ruthnorbury@ntlworld.com

Snow Day

Sadly we had to cancel the first meeting of the year because of the snow. Hopefully we will be OK next week (25th) to learn about ATCs with Robi (Artists Trading Cards)

End of Term

Sorry the post is late :@(

Last meeting (Friday 7th December) we had a Show and Tell of the work our members had produced during the term. We also had some Christmas nibbles. Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone

Painted Bondaweb

This week (30 th November) we learned about the fun things that you can do with Bondaweb. We painted it, added small snippets of fabric and generally had lots of fun with paint, glue and other messy things!

Gift Wrapping with Textiles

We had a lovely afternoon preparing for Christmas by learning how to gift wrap with textiles. Some of our members brought work they had done in our workshop by Susan Smith

No ATC's But Angels Instead!

Sadly Robi was unable to teach her ATC class last week, so we had a Friday social afternoon instead. I took some photos of our members work. Next week we will be learning how to gift wrap with textiles

Tools, and Social Afternoon

On the 19th October we all brought any interesting tools, (antique or otherwise) for us all to look at. Sadly I was unable to go, so there are no pictures :@(

26th October was a normal Friday social afternoon. I took some pictures of our work. Bronwyn is doing a piece based on her grandchildren and Shirley is sewing a piece based on a workshop she did.

There is no meeting next week as it is half term

Social Afternoon and Library / Cuboard Clearout

Friday 12th October was a normal social afternoon. Robi and I decided to take on the task of sorting out the cupboard that contains our library and equipment and we managed it in around an hour and a half. We were so engrossed that I forgot to take photographs of everyone's work. Oops! Next week we will be bringing in antique or interesting embroidery tools to have a look at. Unfortunately I may not be there and therefore there may be no pictures next week either :@(

New Term and Beetles

I am out of routine with updating all the sites after the Embroiderers' Guild meetings. Please forgive me :@)

Friday 28th September was the first day back. We had a normal social afternoon and there was a lot of catching up after the summer holiday, but there was plenty of stitching as well. I took some photos of the things we are doing.

Friday 5th October we had a workshop by Ruth on stump work beetles. Unfortunatey I forgot to take pictures, but there is one so you can get the idea.

Next week (Friday 12th October) is a normal Friday social afternoon. Feel free to pop in and join us :@)

Last Day of Term

It was our last meeting of this academic year. We will meet up again in September. Despite the excitement of it being the end of term, we did manage to get lots of stitching done!

Tribute to Dylan Thomas

Swansea Embroiderers' Guild are having an exhibition called 'Tribute to Dylan Thomas' at the Civic Centre, Swansea and so there were several pieces being finished off. The angel and face are based on his poems and the bird is unrelated to the exhibition

Stamping and Banner Letters

We had a very inspiring Friday afternoon with Robi who showed us the work she had done at the stamping workshop. She also brought with her some of the techniques she uses to stamp.

The letters for the Embroiderers' Guild banner are coming on well, there are only a few left now.

Next week is a social week and then there is only one more week until we break up for the summer holidays