Happy New Year 2013

The next meeting will be on Saturday January 5

The full list of winning numbers for the Baltimore Quilt and the prizes.

1^st         1456   Quilt winner                                         C Rochester

2^nd           1400    Work by Serena Partridge             M& H Blackstone

3^rd        0746    Rug Bag                                              F Stoner

4^th        0116    Tracey Franklin Gold work                S Middleton

5^th        0761    Sheila Ridgeon Beadwork                C Ankers

6^th        0335    Selection of Threads                          A Barnet

7^th        1182    Book                                                    B Jones

8^th        083      Book                                                    A Bateman

9^th        5067    Pauline Twyman Stump work           P Hopkins

10^th      0842    Book                                                    S Newton

11^th      0082   Cluny Picture                                       C Cox

The weather can be problematic during the winter months and for safety reasons meetings can be postponed. The cancellation of the meeting will be announced by 9am on the Blog.

The 2012-2013  trickle  tree has been set up by the committee to make sure the message is available as quickly as possible.

See you all on Saturday

Dulcie

Baltimore Quilt Raffle Draw

December 1st 2012.
Jean Graves drew the winning ticket in our 2012 Raffle for the Baltimore Quilt. It was successful beyond our wildest expectations and raised over £2,600 for the Bursary fund. 

 The winner Cindy Rochester of Market Harborough is delighted. She bought her ticket at the NEC Birmingham Festival of Quilts in August. Her prize is on its way to her.

 A great time was had by branch members on Saturday. We took part in Christmas workshops and enjoyed Liz Lumb's delicious "Partridge in a Pear Tree" cake.

A young visitor votes in the competition.

 Nicki Brown won the Christmas competition entitled "A Partridge in a Pear Tree"

Chairman Shirley Smith presents Nicki with her prize.

November Catch Up

Hi everyone, I thought I would say how brilliant Kaffe Fassett was last month - his lecture was interesting,witty and very entertaining.

He had loads of great slides of his very colourful work. It was all quite inspiring.

Brandon was really good at his job too.

I thought the whole day went really well,it was well organised and very well supported.

See you all at October meeting.

Pauline Twyman

Tracy Franklin Workshop - Saturday 13 October 2012

Tracy day will be held at Hart Rigg Oakes from 10 am to 4 pm. Contact dulcie on 01274 862 152 or dulcie@bdnleach.co.uk or you  can sign up at the next meeting on Saturday 7 October. See requirements for the day below.

Refreshments will be available during the day, please bring a mug/beaker and a packed lunch is advised.

Workshop Offer

There is a workshop Wednesday 18 July 2012 at The Design Suite. Josie Storey

will be tutoring this worshop "Working with Funtex" the time will

be 10am till 4pm including Tea & Coffee.

I have attached the leaflet for all the details.

Members are offered this as at a special price of £25.00

per person. The website details are www.designsuite.org.uk

Regards Angela Feather

News from a very wet and miserable York!!

I' m getting really fed with all this precipitation but the good news is that we had a successful Exhibition at the end of June - don't think we are going to break any records but we had a lot of lovely people come to see our work and talk with us.

Speaking of the work the standard, variety and breadth of the work was excellent - there was something for everyone so well done to you all and a huge thank you to all that helped in whatever way to make the Exhibition a success.

One of the real highlights for me and for many others was the work of our Young Embroiderers' who had chosen to use York's 800th centenary celebrations as inspiration and gave us a spectacular view of costumes throughout the ages - fantastic!!!

Another highlight for many of our visitors was our Competition "A Cushion fit for a Regal Bum!!!!!"   It was hard this year.  Moira who had organised this thread of the Exhibition sent me the answers on the Monday after the Exhibition and it is solely tardiness on my part which has made you wait so long for the answers but here we go:-

I will try to match the correct photo to the correct answer - apologies for some photo quality -I was using my phone.

 No 1      Sandra Atkin         King Solomon

No 2     Gina Smith        Snow Queen

No 3     Kath Potter      Queen of Sheba

No 4      Anne Bryszkiewski     Queen Anne

No 5       Carol Wilson       Eleanor of Castille

No 6    Shirley Smith    Queen Mab

No 7  Maureen Fawcett   Queen of the Night

   No 8   Christine Addley  

                                     Elizabeth, Queen Mother                                                                     

No 9    Colleen Nicoll  Anne Boleyn

 No 10  Ruth Edwards   Queen Victoria

No 11 Susie Bayley    Queen of Hearts

 No 12   Bertie Harte   Richard III

 No 13   Sheila Wade   Cleopatra

No 14 Viv Stamford   Mary Queen of Scots

No 15    Pauline Twyman   King Harold

No 16  Judith Johnson     Boudicca

No 17   Moira Wood   Nefertiti



 And there we have it - I won't publish the winners as that will spoil the surprise or they may alreadt know but I suspect results will be announced on Saturday.

I am sure that there will be more photos published here but that is all I have for now - am now going to lie down in a dark room having wrestled with uploading photos!!!!!
Please accept my apologies if I have got anything wrong it was and is unintentional.