City of York branch of the Embroiderers' Guild

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Some forthcoming events

Gawthorpe Hall

I have been in touch with Gawthorpe Hall about our visit there on Saturday August 10th. They have asked me to let you know about their "Meet the artist" events which are happening throughout the summmer. To visit their website and see the programme click on this link Gawthorpe Hall.

Monday, 11 March 2013

March Speaker and Workshop

Our speaker for March was Diana Barrett a member of York Embroiderers' Guild and the bursary winner for 2011. She is pictured outside the Folk Hall with her beautiful jacket created as part of her degree work at Hull.
Her talk traced the cjhanging attitudes to women and embroidery through time, and featured embroidery as far apart as Bess of Hardwick and an embroidered telephone screen from the 1930's. It was all very interesting.

Work in progress photographed at the Quilt Workshop with Jean Graves.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

March ditties

Dianna Barret's talk- "For what it's worth" was very thought provoking and informative. It was a different perspective from one of our bursary students.

The Saturday stitch group is Beavering away. Member are unsurfacing many hidden talents through their skilful mentor.

I cannot wait to see the all the works on the Blow your own trumpet table.

The small quilt challenge by Jean Greaves has begun - even more to Blow our trumpets about.

The workshop with Serene Partridge is open - Saturday May 18th

"Miniature gloves" (follow up to Serena's small shoes -requested by members )

Don't be put off by the size. Serena will be at hand to offer various patterns to meet all needs.

Next month - April

Our speaker will be Rubina Porter- Click here for a link to the project.

The workshop with Linda Tyson -3D in felt in June will open.

See you all next month.

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

February Talk

February 6^th 2013

Cathy Corbishley Michel with one of her Cyanotype printed quilts, ‘Endurance 2’.

Cathy’s talk for our February Meeting was entertaining and packed full of fascinating information on cyanotype printing, Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16, and Frank Hurley’s amazing photographs of the ships and the men.

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

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^nd1400 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

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

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.