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!

June meeting

We had our first in person meeting in a long time today! It was lovely to see people and chat. Unfortunately, it was a bit on the chilly side after all the warm weather we have had. We agreed the constitution for our newly formed independent group and then shared what we have been up to in recent months. We are hoping to meet again in July (possibly in August too) and then fingers crossed for an indoor September meeting.

Here's some photos of today's get together (all wrapped up!).

Serena has been on a tatting mission and cross stitching more of her own designs.

Some lovely book pages: