September meeting - AGM and Rose Bowl

After the formalities of the AGM all members voted for their favourite entry in the Rose Bowl competition.  This year the theme was based on our Rainbow Squares and members were challenged to complete a new work with a neutral colour scheme.  Here are the entries from our talented members:-

 

So many beautiful entries made it difficult to choose a favourite, but Christine Bardsley was voted the winner (her work is the one above the hare) and she was presented with the Rose Bowl which will be hers for the coming year.

Other work was displayed by those members who didn't produce a Rainbow Square.  Here are the 'transformed tins' which show their own story displayed in a tin can:-

- and the tins were accompanied by some beautiful shisha work:-

Finally we had a few words from Hannah Dodd who is running a workshop - 3D needle felting - at her studio in Broadbottom on Wednesday, 17 October from 10am until 3pm.  We are really looking forward to being shown how to produce fantastic needle felted birds and insects.  Here is one of Hannah's birds, and one of her 3D felted landscapes:-

You can now look forward to the next blog post showing the fantastical creatures we have made!

Glossop Suffrage event

As 2018 represents one hundred years of some women being able to vote, Glossop Arts Project felt they should celebrate the event.  They invited a number of local groups, including the Embroiderers' Guild, to take part in creating a banner to commemorate the centenary of women's suffrage.  It became a group project with each group working one of the panels.

A small number of Glossop EG members volunteered to take part with the banner worked in the suffragette colours of purple, green and white and here is the result:-

The banner was displayed in Norfolk Square in Glossop and photographed for the local paper, then everyone who participated marched with the banner to the Labour Club, which will be its home.  

After the celebration members of Glossop Arts Project took some beautiful flowers to the grave of Florence French who is buried in Glossop Cemetery.  Florence actively campaigned for votes for women and was a leading campaigner for women's suffrage in Glossop.  In 1906 she was one of the founders of Glossop Labour Club. 

This was a rewarding local community event and all who contributed felt it was a fitting tribute to our local suffragist.

Summer Lunch and visit to Chatsworth

After our wonderful Summer Lunch we set off for a wander around Chatsworth House. We were looking for inspiration for textile work for our exhibition to be displayed in the Carriage House restaurant early next year.  But - Chris Harris and Christine Bardsley were much more interested in adding their work to the Woven in Time weaving loom in the State Drawing Room:-

As most of you will know, Chatsworth is rich in artistic inspiration and so the photographs shown here can only hint at what is within the house.  Hopefully they may give you ideas, or prompt you to visit and record those things which you find inspirational.

This sculpture of a leaping hare is in the central courtyard and was created, I think, by Barry Flanagan.  Beneath it is a model of Chatsworth House.

Here are the Emperor fountain and the famous violin painted on a door:-

On the left is a display of wall-mounted china plates, and on the right is a tabletop with a beautiful design made from different types of stone.

Here are some of the glorious tassels used to decorate the curtains and windows:-

These are the hot-air balloons which took off from the Chatsworth estate during last weekend's country fair:-

All of this without venturing outside the House or looking around the garden.  Oh, and did I mention the farmyard, the Orangery, the waterfall or the bridge....?