Gawthorpe Hall

Outing To Gawthorpe Hall
Saturday August 10th

We will aim to leave the Folk Hall at 9.15am and pick up the rest of the group at Knaresborough Retail Park as near to 9.45 as we can.
The cafe at Gawthorpe Hall will be open at 11am and the Hall opens at 12 noon.
Each person is responsible for paying their own entrance fee. National Trust members are free.
We will stop at Empress Mills on the return journey for about an hour and leave there at 4 pm.

Message from our April speaker.

Your support for the women and children at Sreepur was very generous and Ruby has sent the following message

“Thank you for the lovely afternoon with your members you all made Ken and I so welcome we raised £638.00 amazing !!! for the women and children at Sreepur.

 May I also thank you for the threads given to me how kind”

The items that Ruby brought were beautiful and carefully produced.

Easter competition

Congratulations to Dorothy Rabjohn, the winner of the Easter competition. Her work based on a design by Angie Lewin of a lino cut titled ‘Agapanthus’ was judged as the best commercial design. 

A Tribute to Angie Lewin “Agapanthus tribute”

Serena Partridge Miniature Gloves Workshop – Saturday May 18^th

Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled due to lack of participants.

Speaker Saturday May 4^th

Caroline Dunn’s website can be found at  http://carolinedunn.weebly.com/index.html

Dulcie

April Meeting

 

Ruby Porter MBE told us about her work at Sreepur Village, Bangladesh.

The village houses over 500 babies and children and 140 destitute women. They are provided with a loving environment, food, clothing, education and vocational training.

Ruby brought with her a wonderful selection of hand woven and embroidered items to raise money for the village. In the photograph she is holding a scarf hand woven in the village from natural fibres and dyed with natural dyes.

We can help in a small way by donating threads and needles. Please bring what you have to our meeting in May.

There are lovely pictures of Sreepur Village on their website   There is also the opportunity to help by donating money.

YARNBOMBING

• Sally Stone spoke at the March meeting about Yarnbombing in Rowntrees Park on 13th July 2013. We  hope lots of you will take part. Here is the link for more information.
• Yarnbombing

York Open Studios

Carol Coleman

One of our members Carol Coleman will be displaying her work again at the York Open Studios. To find out more details follow this link.

If you like her work and would like to vote for her in the Craft and Design Selected Awards, please use the link below.

 

www.craftmaker.co.uk/carolcoleman

 

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.

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.