Creative Adventures with Textile Group

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.