Monday 27 July 2015

Date for Your Diary

                     The Embroiderers' Guild North Wales Branch Biennial Exhibition

Making Waves... ... in Stitch

 
United Reform Church, Colwyn Avenue, Rhos on Sea, LL28 4RA
 
Friday 30th October 10.30 am - 5 pm
Saturday 31st October 10.30 am - 4 pm
 
Entrance Adults £2 Under 18 £0.50

Overlord Embroidery

If you are travelling to the South Coast this summer try to find time to visit The Overlord Embroidery on display at the D-Day Museum, Portsmouth. Made up of 34 stunning panels the embroidery is displayed continuously round a purpose built room that allows you to see the overall effect as well as marvel at the workmanship close up.


 

Thursday 23 July 2015

Message from Rubina Porter MBE



Message from Rubina Porter MBE
May I invite you to Liverpool Town Hall, High St, Liverpool L2 3SW to visit this magnificent grade 1 listed building. It is beautiful.
Free entry and your family and friends are all welcome. The children will enjoy all the treasures it has to offer.
Threading Dreams Exhibition
Exhibition of textiles and embroidery from The Sreepur Village Bangladesh and also from the rural areas. All this beautiful work is created in adverse poverty by amazing women
Monday 17th August - Thursday 20th August (4 days)
Monday 24th August – 28th August (5 days)
Friday 11th September and Saturday 12th September (2 days)
There will be hand made cards, silk scarves and other gifts for sale. All proceeds will go to the 600 children and 150 destitute mothers who live at Sreepur plus the Street Children project we run on the railway, the river banks and at Dhaka airport. Millions of street children live literally on the streets in Bangladesh.
Ruby Porter MBE
Trustee The Sreepur Village Bangladesh
www.thesreepurvillage.org
www.megonline.co.uk - Sreepur news
Thank you Ruby
Rubina M Porter

Saturday 18 July 2015

Embroiders' Guild House Workshop


Magna Carta (An Embroidery)


Subject: Re: Magna Carta (An Embroidery) - Advance Notice

Dear All
          

We are delighted to let you know that the Magna Carta (An Embroidery) will be coming to The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester from the 8th August 2015 for two months.

 Magna Carta (An Embroidery) was commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford in partnership with the British Library and in association with the Embroiderers’ Guild, Fine Cell Work, Hand & Lock and the Royal School of Needlework.

 
Please check The Whitworth website for more details about the exhibition which will be added in the next 7 to 10 days


 The Whitworth

The University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Manchester

M15 6ER

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Book It

All those who attended yesterday's meeting had a treat as Veronica Wells brought a selection of her small books to show us.
just a few

She has always had a love of or "obsession with" small notebooks. She then went on a course to learn about altered books and made one for her husband's 60th birthday. She has made many more since.
 
 
 
She is keen on travel and has produced journals containing mementos of memorable trips.
 
and a love of nature is obvious.
 
Making covered notebooks from collages printed on to fabrics
 
led to personalised notebooks and canvas bags printed and then embellished

 
 Veronica has never been afraid of trying new techniques and showed us some pages with apertures that are not yet finished.

 
One book contained a section of a photo interpreted in paper collage and in fabric & stitch.
 
Veronica has moved on to postcards and folded books and we look forward to seeing lots more of her finished articles as well as UFOs. 
 
We all marvelled at the amount of work as well as the very high standard. I am sure we all left greatly inspired to produce some notebooks of our own.
 
Thank You Veronica
 



 
 
 

Sunday 5 July 2015

No Straight Lines

The exhibition by Cheshire Textiles at Little Moreton Hall is on until 12th July so there is still time to visit.

Ruff Stack by Bridget Bowie

Off the Wall by Bridget Bowie

Off the Wall detail

Moreton Timbers by Sue Dunbar
Nine Pennants by Jean Haigh

Pattern by Elizabeth Mott