Merry Christmas!

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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Today we had our annual Jacob's Join lunch - lovely as usual; of particular note was Sue's fruit cake with no eggs, sugar or butter! It was delicious especially with some cheese. 

We had our Christmas card swap and a round up of things to come next year: our raffle will be monthly prompts based on famous paintings and we will also be launching a new round of Travelling Pages, the monthly prompt will be the raffle painting, so that should prove interesting. Also on the cards is a little series of posts on here and our other social media featuring members' favourite stitches or techniques. We have a packed programme for 2024, so if you fancy joining us, drop us an email.

We had a display of items made on workshops this last 12 months, all of which have featured on the blog and in addition there were sketch books of techniques from Gail's sessions introducing those fairly new to stitching to various stitches and traditions, and also a couple of mini quilted hangings from Anne Brooke's stitching hour. Lots of photos below in no particular order. I'm off to make Sue's cake!

    

                                                 

...and last but not least, Serena's hat!

Recycled Garden Book

 This month's meeting was Sally's workshop making a Recycled Garden Book. All manner of bits of paper were used to create the pages including paper bags, security envelopes, left over bits and pieces, anything that would normally go in the recycling bin. We made stickers with sellotape and used napkins and cling film to jazz up old book pages. We made patches with paper flowers and kneaded paper stitched to fabric scraps and then assembled everything onto a handmade book. It was a pretty full on day but we had great fun.

Production in progress!

A few pages from Sally's original...

...and some from the workshop

In other stitching news, Margaret has been trying out a new Zara Day course on maps and of course there's some stitching with Anne Brooke amongst other things.