Aren't we a happy group listening to Dionne Swift at her talk- Devore Magic?
It was a very interesting topic and enjoyable session .
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Exhibition 'Reflections on Colour'
This exhibition by members Carol Coleman and Sandra Middleton,together with Nadine Saupe is now open,and will be on until February 3rd, with the exception of Mondays and Tuesdays, when the venue is closed. Opening hours 10.00am to 4.00pm.
Please check before travelling 01904 612613 Web site www.grayscourtyork.com
I hope you will be able to support this event by visiting the exhibition when you are next in York.
Please check before travelling 01904 612613 Web site www.grayscourtyork.com
I hope you will be able to support this event by visiting the exhibition when you are next in York.
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Raffle Tickets for the Quilt
You will be pleased to know that we have permission to sell raffle tickets for THE QUILT at the Festival of Quilts in August at the NEC and also at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate in November. we will also be selling them at our Exhibition and the Regional Day. 500 books of tickets have been printed so let's try to sell them all. The quilt deserves it.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
January meeting.
Well here we are at the beginning of 2012 and may I send you all good wishes for the coming year - we are in for a busy one!!!!!!
When you have gotten over the shock of me actually posting to the Blog on the day of our meeting you will be pleased to know that I have carried out my threat to invite more people to contribute to the Blog. I have asked members of the committtee to join me so that we can keep you up to date more readily this year as we are having the exhibition, Kaffe Fassett's talk and the prize draw for the Baltimore Quilt.
We had a excellent meeting today - the Speaker was Michelle Horton of Duttons for Buttons.
Michelle has came to speak to us last year when she gave us the first part of her excellent history of buttons (up to the end of the 17th century) and she continued from then up until the present day today.
I enjoyed both talks very much as Michelle has a wealth of historical knowledge combined with some very quirky facts which made her talk informative but yet remained entertaining.
Michelle started today by telling us about Dorset buttons which many of us will have made - the originals were surprisingly small and this cottage industry expanded very rapidly until the middle of 19th century when mechanisation came to the button industry wiping out the hand made element but introducing a much wider variety of materials from which buttons could be made.
Horn, Tortoiseshell, vegetable ivory(tagua nuts), glass, ceramic, rubber, silver, linen, Celluloid, mother of pearl, fabric and Bakelite were some of the materials used for the making of buttons during the 19th and 20th centuries. She explained how fashion and changes thereof are reflected in the button industry and also how buttons reflect social history - finishing with a poem whose final line was If only a button was alive and could speak.......
Good talk which I enjoyed and I hope you did too.
Notices
Exhibition is to be held in the Guildhall Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June 2012 - to help and support members an Exhibition table will be present at every meeting from now on, manned by Chris Beavers, to disemminate information and give help and advice to members. Please come and ask any questions you have - I can't help if I don't know what your problems are - good I am telepathic I am not!!!!
At the February meeting I will be starting my stewarding list, giving out entry forms, asking for people to take publicity material to various areas and answering any questions you may have.
I would like to reiterate Shirley's words today that the majority of our exhibition will consist of work, be it contemporary or traditional, done by our members during the last three years which will reflect the skills and imagination within our branch - the York Postcards, the Regal Competition and the Member's Challenge are there as additional interest for our visitors and yourselves.
I should like you to consider my ambition to have a piece of work from every member in our exhibition - this has not yet been acheived but I am optomistic that it could happen!!
Tickets for Kaffe Fassett were on sale today for members only at £10 per ticket as they will be for the next two meetings and then they will be offered to friends and family and others at £12 per ticket.
Books of tickets for the Prize Draw were also available today and we are asking members to sell as many tickets as they reasonably can.
Two workshops were opened today - one to be led by Cluny on inspiration for the York postcards - these will be small 6"X4" pieces of work - any technique: subject matter to be based on any aspect of York. This workshop will be held on Sunday 5th February 10 - 4 (sorry I did not take any notice of the venue but I am sure someone will fill in that information)
The second workshop is one led by Tracy Franklin - again I am sure someone will fill in the details.
The Beading group which meets each month has been renamed the very imaginative 2nd Wednesday in the Month group and anyone is welcome to come along to do whatever they are working on - next meeting is this Wednesday 11th January from 1.30 onwards until Sheila has to go for her fish and chips!!!
Quilting Bee
We continue to work hard on the quilting of the Baltimore Quilt and this month it is residing at my house and it will be available Mondays and Fridays from 10 onwards for stitching starting Friday 13th January - please let me know if you intend coming either by phone or through the comments section on the Blog. It will also be available one Sunday 29th January for those of you who work through the week but would like to contribute.
If there is any information which I have got wrong please feel free to tell me or correct it if you have access to the Blog - apologies if I have missed anything.
Here ends my first missive of 2012 heres hoping that I can keep it up. Chris B
When you have gotten over the shock of me actually posting to the Blog on the day of our meeting you will be pleased to know that I have carried out my threat to invite more people to contribute to the Blog. I have asked members of the committtee to join me so that we can keep you up to date more readily this year as we are having the exhibition, Kaffe Fassett's talk and the prize draw for the Baltimore Quilt.
We had a excellent meeting today - the Speaker was Michelle Horton of Duttons for Buttons.
Michelle has came to speak to us last year when she gave us the first part of her excellent history of buttons (up to the end of the 17th century) and she continued from then up until the present day today.
I enjoyed both talks very much as Michelle has a wealth of historical knowledge combined with some very quirky facts which made her talk informative but yet remained entertaining.
Michelle started today by telling us about Dorset buttons which many of us will have made - the originals were surprisingly small and this cottage industry expanded very rapidly until the middle of 19th century when mechanisation came to the button industry wiping out the hand made element but introducing a much wider variety of materials from which buttons could be made.
Horn, Tortoiseshell, vegetable ivory(tagua nuts), glass, ceramic, rubber, silver, linen, Celluloid, mother of pearl, fabric and Bakelite were some of the materials used for the making of buttons during the 19th and 20th centuries. She explained how fashion and changes thereof are reflected in the button industry and also how buttons reflect social history - finishing with a poem whose final line was If only a button was alive and could speak.......
Good talk which I enjoyed and I hope you did too.
Notices
Exhibition is to be held in the Guildhall Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June 2012 - to help and support members an Exhibition table will be present at every meeting from now on, manned by Chris Beavers, to disemminate information and give help and advice to members. Please come and ask any questions you have - I can't help if I don't know what your problems are - good I am telepathic I am not!!!!
At the February meeting I will be starting my stewarding list, giving out entry forms, asking for people to take publicity material to various areas and answering any questions you may have.
I would like to reiterate Shirley's words today that the majority of our exhibition will consist of work, be it contemporary or traditional, done by our members during the last three years which will reflect the skills and imagination within our branch - the York Postcards, the Regal Competition and the Member's Challenge are there as additional interest for our visitors and yourselves.
I should like you to consider my ambition to have a piece of work from every member in our exhibition - this has not yet been acheived but I am optomistic that it could happen!!
Tickets for Kaffe Fassett were on sale today for members only at £10 per ticket as they will be for the next two meetings and then they will be offered to friends and family and others at £12 per ticket.
Books of tickets for the Prize Draw were also available today and we are asking members to sell as many tickets as they reasonably can.
Two workshops were opened today - one to be led by Cluny on inspiration for the York postcards - these will be small 6"X4" pieces of work - any technique: subject matter to be based on any aspect of York. This workshop will be held on Sunday 5th February 10 - 4 (sorry I did not take any notice of the venue but I am sure someone will fill in that information)
The second workshop is one led by Tracy Franklin - again I am sure someone will fill in the details.
The Beading group which meets each month has been renamed the very imaginative 2nd Wednesday in the Month group and anyone is welcome to come along to do whatever they are working on - next meeting is this Wednesday 11th January from 1.30 onwards until Sheila has to go for her fish and chips!!!
Quilting Bee
We continue to work hard on the quilting of the Baltimore Quilt and this month it is residing at my house and it will be available Mondays and Fridays from 10 onwards for stitching starting Friday 13th January - please let me know if you intend coming either by phone or through the comments section on the Blog. It will also be available one Sunday 29th January for those of you who work through the week but would like to contribute.
If there is any information which I have got wrong please feel free to tell me or correct it if you have access to the Blog - apologies if I have missed anything.
Here ends my first missive of 2012 heres hoping that I can keep it up. Chris B
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Workshops
At last managed to acess our blog thanks to my 23 years old technical wizzard. We were on our way to be becoming Germanic.
What a great day we all had in December. I received a number of requests for more member's days. The calendar for 2012 is full and suggestions for 2013 are now being taken.
If we are to hold further members's days we will need ideas and tutors willing to take the sessions.So far the following idease have been made - weddign celebrations/ pin cushions for ... xmas, easter, springs.If you could lead one of these session that would be great.
This weekend I will be opening 2 workshops-
1. Cluny Chapman - Inspriations for workshops in the summer term. Completed work can be forwarded to th Maria- thank you.
2. Tracy Day 21st April 2012 - Improve your stitch technique. If you have any projects that require to fill now me=odeas./ indicsate Scotlasnd os sifferrifng form th gpus. from Tracy day -please briong it alongside your other ideas.
What a great day we all had in December. I received a number of requests for more member's days. The calendar for 2012 is full and suggestions for 2013 are now being taken.
If we are to hold further members's days we will need ideas and tutors willing to take the sessions.So far the following idease have been made - weddign celebrations/ pin cushions for ... xmas, easter, springs.If you could lead one of these session that would be great.
This weekend I will be opening 2 workshops-
1. Cluny Chapman - Inspriations for workshops in the summer term. Completed work can be forwarded to th Maria- thank you.
2. Tracy Day 21st April 2012 - Improve your stitch technique. If you have any projects that require to fill now me=odeas./ indicsate Scotlasnd os sifferrifng form th gpus. from Tracy day -please briong it alongside your other ideas.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Christmas meeting
Hello everybody, I thought I would just say that a few people came up to me at the meeting and said that they think we should have the mini workshops more than once a year. That they think it is a really good way of mixing in and meeting new people and making new friends. I do agree and think it may be worth having this type of day in the summer also. I will suggest it at the next committee meeting at the beginning of January. So watch this space!!I was running the 'Tiny Tea Lights' workshop and I really enjoyed it.Everybody made a tea light,they were all very different colours and different decorations were added.They all needed to be dried at home and then finished off - but I would love to see them finished - so maybe those people on my table would bring them to the January meeting and we can have a little display.Pauline (Treasurer)
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
What a long time!!!!!!!
Hello girls
What a long time since I last spoke to you - I really don't know where the time goes to and I have been very remiss in my updating of the blog. Please accept my apologies and I hope to do better in 2012.
I have come on today to give a brief report about last Saturday's meeting which was excellent.
Our Christmas meetings are listed as Members Days and can take a variety of formats - this year was a direct repeat of last year which had to be cancelled because of the atrocious weather conditions.
Dulcie had enlisted the services of several of our members to organise little mini-workshops to last approx 2 hours and we were offered various alternatives (usually with a Christmas theme): so we had card making options, two angel options (though one was listed as a hairy fairy!!!!), small christmas bags and boxes, tea light holders, tree decorations etc. etc - you get the idea.
We had a quick (for us) business meeting and then we were up and running or heads down and on with our activities - you can always tell when something is going well as there is a quiet hum of activity as people concentrate and then start to quietly chat amongst themselves as their confidence with the task grows - we had a great afternoon and I think practically everyone went home with something complete or that they could complete easily at home.
On my table I offered bird tree ornaments and I was really pleased with my pupils efforts and hope to see embellished birds in January.
I on behalf of the committee would like to say a big thank you to those who volunteered!!!!! to teach for the afternoon as without you the day would not be such a success. Thank you for all the preparation beforehand, your time and expertise on the day and for leaving your workstations tidy at the end. Also thanks to Dulcie for organising the day - everybody was in the right place at the right time - no small achievement.
Other highlights of the afternoon were a bran tub, raffle, Christmas bag competition ( I would like to tell you who won but I wasn't listening when it was announced - sorry) and best of all we had cake at half time for which I have to thank Liz Lumb as it was her usual lovely cake. I had both the fruit side and the sponge side!!!!!!
I am going to invite some more committee members to participate in the Blog so you should have a better chance of getting information next year - Have a very good Christmas and all good wishes for 2012.
Chris B
What a long time since I last spoke to you - I really don't know where the time goes to and I have been very remiss in my updating of the blog. Please accept my apologies and I hope to do better in 2012.
I have come on today to give a brief report about last Saturday's meeting which was excellent.
Our Christmas meetings are listed as Members Days and can take a variety of formats - this year was a direct repeat of last year which had to be cancelled because of the atrocious weather conditions.
Dulcie had enlisted the services of several of our members to organise little mini-workshops to last approx 2 hours and we were offered various alternatives (usually with a Christmas theme): so we had card making options, two angel options (though one was listed as a hairy fairy!!!!), small christmas bags and boxes, tea light holders, tree decorations etc. etc - you get the idea.
We had a quick (for us) business meeting and then we were up and running or heads down and on with our activities - you can always tell when something is going well as there is a quiet hum of activity as people concentrate and then start to quietly chat amongst themselves as their confidence with the task grows - we had a great afternoon and I think practically everyone went home with something complete or that they could complete easily at home.
On my table I offered bird tree ornaments and I was really pleased with my pupils efforts and hope to see embellished birds in January.
I on behalf of the committee would like to say a big thank you to those who volunteered!!!!! to teach for the afternoon as without you the day would not be such a success. Thank you for all the preparation beforehand, your time and expertise on the day and for leaving your workstations tidy at the end. Also thanks to Dulcie for organising the day - everybody was in the right place at the right time - no small achievement.
Other highlights of the afternoon were a bran tub, raffle, Christmas bag competition ( I would like to tell you who won but I wasn't listening when it was announced - sorry) and best of all we had cake at half time for which I have to thank Liz Lumb as it was her usual lovely cake. I had both the fruit side and the sponge side!!!!!!
I am going to invite some more committee members to participate in the Blog so you should have a better chance of getting information next year - Have a very good Christmas and all good wishes for 2012.
Chris B
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