December Meeting - Christmas!

Even though it was only the 1st of December, this was our Christmas meeting.
Instead of a speaker, we had the chance to chat with other members of the branch while we each worked on a little Autumn leaf brooch project.

Some of our embroidered brooches

This was a very social meeting, we had a specially baked cake, gingerbread biscuits and mince pies to make us feel really Christmassy, together with a raffle, bran tub, and the Christmas competition.
The theme this year was White Christmas, and it was Nikki who won the prize with her ingenious three dimensional and fully illuminated piece.

Nikki's prizewinning entry

In other things . . . 

There will be a one morning Young Embroiderers session on Thursday 3rd January. See the YE page for more details. There will be a two morning session over February half term.

The National Embroiderers' Guild Project for 2019 (following on from the '100 hearts' in 2018) will be on the theme HOME. Further details can be found by clicking here for a link to the Embroiderers' Guild website There's also a link to the right of this post under the heading 'Some of our favourite links' where you will also find a link to our branch Facebook page.

Our speaker in January will be Alison Larkin, talking about Opus Anglicanum

White Christmas competition entry

Happy Christmas. See you next year!