Casalguidi

 Jill led a workshop this month focusing on Casalguidi Stitch and embellishments with beads and sequins. It was an enjoyable day making wiggles!

There was of course some other stitching going on too. 

November Meeting and Textilia III

It was great to see everyone yesterday and we welcomed some new members too!

Several of our members belong to Textilia III and we were joined today by Catherine Slater another Textilia member. Textilia III is a Yorkshire based textile group formed in 1995 following founder members' participation in City & Guilds. What was really interesting to hear about was their 'Group Critique'. We all get stuck sometimes and having a critical friend can really help. It sounds a bit daunting but as it was explained to us what emerged was a supportive commentary that members received.

Textilia have had project running over lockdown, similar to our 4" squares but a little more challenging than a monthly colour theme. They had 3 jars, one with a selection of techniques on slips of paper, 

one with colours and one with
prompts/themes. A random slip is taken from each jar and that becomes the prompt. Some were a little easier to make than others but they were all lovely. It's a great idea!

Members have all been busy, not least Jackie who has produced yet another lovely book.

Brazilian Embroidery

 This month Claire led a workshop on Brazilian Embroidery. This technique was new to many members but it was a really enjoyable morning and a new skill was learnt! This was a workshop led by a group member and one of a series of such workshops where we share our own particular skills and knowledge with the rest of the group; we all have particular interests and it's great to share with others, so we are including these workshops (some full day some half day) in our programme alongside outside speakers/workshops. Check out what's coming up on the Programme tab.

Skipton Stitchers: a new beginning

This is the first post of our new blog as Skipton Stitchers. it seems we've all been up-skilling with regard to Zoom and the like as we are unable to meet as before. Today we had our monthly meeting via Zoom and Claire, our chair, volunteered a mini workshop on raised embroidery. She gamely created some lovely videos demonstrating the techniques she used only to find that the Zoom gremlins were uncooperative! However, after some tinkering the series of clips are now available on YouTube using this link and they are also in the Resources tab.

I was feeling techie and grabbed some screen shots while Claire was chatting; do have a look at the videos. Thanks to Claire for giving it a go - this new way of meeting has been a learning curve for many of us.