Creative Adventures with Textile Group

This month we began to make items for our Christmas Tree which will be in the Festival at St John's Church Knaresborough.  Chris led us in making paper and stitched designs, from robins, trees to stars. Lots of gold and silver threads and sequins were being used.  Let's hope we have. Number of them by November meeting.   My attempt above.   REMEMBER 10 NOVEMBER IS AN AFTERNOON MEETING FROM 1.00 pm Bring along your item to finish or something to work on, plus your travelling journals.

BILTON COMMUNITY CENTRE HARROGATE Our first meeting at this new venue only half day today and for our July meeting, we begin full day meetings from September. Everyone brought along fabric, threads, ribbons and beads to make up inspiration packs for our exhibition on Saturday 11 August in Knaresborough during the FEVA festival.  Catherine and I work with these donated items making up 15 assorted bags during the afternoon.  Thank you to everyone who brought along their canvas squares which were placed against a mount board, we will decide next month how we will fix them together, when hopefully there will more canvases. Everyone liked our new venue, with chairs and tables set up for us by the caretaker, and not to be put up or taken down by our group.  There is a boiler in the kitchen with constant boiling water and and excellent supply of mugs and cutlery.  The hall is bright and airy and we can use the garden at the rear of the building on sunny days as there are picnic tables with se

This was our last meeting at Gracious Street Methodist Church Hall when we had a day with Catherine Chew consulting with work on Calico Gardens.  Most members were involved in this workshop when we were shown how to add padding and depth to our work by Catherine, using cardboard, felt and old tights(washed of course). We also looked at new stitched which we had not used before Spanish knotted stitch being one of them. We all had a spare hoop to practice our new stitches before adding to our gardens. Trial stitches. After a few weeks work, not completed yet, hope to do so by the exhibition. Our next meeting will be at Bilton Community Centre in Harrogate on 9 June from 1 until 4.30.  See you there.

Today was a half day meeting with everyone stitching their current project; knitting, blackwork,design samples, felt mouse, weaving, embroidery to name some, sorry no photos today. On display were some of the small canvases we began last month which were displayed on a cream mount board quite a mixture of ideas, faces, flowers and abstract designs.  There was also show and tell of woven wool for a commission, details of a collar, a dressed felt rabbit.  Plus books from committee members Nudinits which amused everyone, the Right Handed stitch book and Mountmellick. A reminder to everyone that there is only one meeting remaining in Knaresborough and the move to our new venue in Harrogate at Bilton Community Centre begins on 9 June, we will now meet on the second Saturday of the month except for July. 26 May full day at Knaresborough Workshop with Catherine - Calico gardens Bilton Community Centre 9 June afternoon 1.00 to 4.30 All travelling journals returned and owner to take home. 21 Ju

I Linda gave us all an introduction to working on small canvases.  She described the technique and showed us examples for ideas on progressing our work. See our efforts  at lunchtime: We hope to see lots of finished canvases in April. Look out for the finished items in our August exhibition at FEVA.

We had a wonderful afternoon meeting today, everyone brought along items they were working at present. There was a variety of embroidery techniques being carried out , a felt mouse being made, discussions around next month when we will all work together to make a joint item to be exhibited at FEVA in August.  Linda has bought small square canvases for members to decorate with stitch, paint, beads, fabric, whatever you feel happy to use. A request for ideas to decorate our Christmas tree at the end of the year at the Tree Festival was made to members, in previous years we have had cats, Angels, in the first year we decorated with a mixture of items.  We need something unique to set our tree apart. 2017  tree in situ at the church.