November meeting - Christmas lunch

Our last meeting of the year had a festive feel with members bringing along their contributions to our Christmas buffet and everyone enjoying their lunch very much, especially the meringues!  And of course it was a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

After lunch we were shown how to make a crazy patchwork angel, enthusiastically led by Chris Harris.  Here are some of the angels created.....

We can now look forward to seeing the completed angels when they return at our January meeting.

 

Alongside the meeting and lunch, there was a display of the beautiful work produced by Sue Taylor, a former member who sadly is no longer able to stitch.  

This is some of the work which Sue created when she was working for her City and Guilds certificate and diploma.

At our next meeting in January (no meeting in December) we shall be making Bushkiri bags, made from a folded, embroidered square of fabric.  Here are some examples to inspire you:-

 

And, finally, Glossop EG is very proud that the work of three members was displayed in Members' Challenge exhibition at the Knitting & Stitching Show in Harrogate.  The theme is 'Underfoot':-

stitched by Christine Bardsley

  

stitched by Joy Newington

stitched by Liz Smith

The theme of this year's challenge is 'Life's rich pattern'.  The closing date is 28 February 2019 so, if you haven't already started, you have just enough time to stitch and submit your own entry!

October - Members' work on other projects

As at most meetings, the Travelling Books were available for any members who wished to add their work to a book of their choice.  

Here are some of the recent contributions:-

 

                           

Once all the pages have been filled, the owner of the book takes it home and can spend hours and hours admiring its contents!

Following our 3D needle felting workshop in October, held by Hannah Dodd, most of the members remembered to bring their finished birds to the meeting.  And to demonstrate what a great day we had, there was a collection of fantastic creatures, including a small flock of robins.  

Some of us are already looking forward to the next needle-felting workshop!

Joy Madden - So you want to sew?

At our October meeting we were visited by Joy Madden who was joined by some friends from a textile group who meet each Monday at Poynton Community Centre.  Joy is a member of Manchester EG, and she told us that she has taken her City & Guilds Creative Embroidery twice!

The title of Joy's talk was 'So you want to sew?' and we were certainly given plenty of inspiration.

The Poynton group includes beginners as well as experienced stitchers, and they brought along a wonderful selection of work for us to admire.  Joy talked about the various techniques used in the samples.  Some of them were familiar and some were not, such as the use of gelliplate printing and encaustic wax.  Their projects are sometimes driven by mystery parcels which contain a selection of materials - similar to the sample packs on our own sales table.

We also heard about Gerald The Juggler who joined the group initially to make himself a set of new juggling balls (see below) before moving onto other projects.

Here is a selection of the group's work:-

Joy's entertaining talk introduced us to lots of new techniques and materials and generated a huge amount of enthusiasm - everyone left with lots of ideas for new projects.  Thank you, Joy!