Steam Museum Exhibition

We called our exhibition at Steam Museum " Off the Rails".

The Mayor opened the exhibition for us and we were very grateful for his enthusiastic opening speech. The Swindon Advertiser were also in attendance they published a full page review with 3 photos, we were very pleased. You can read the online version here. The Exhibition was running for a month and was well attended by embroiderers and visitors to the Museum.

Here are a sample of the photos taken at the exhibtion.

We had our meeting today at the Blackthorn Centre and concentrated on Lazy daisy stitch. It was incredibly relaxing and fun to work with a simple stitch.

Our April Meeting (14th April 2009) will take place at Lydiard Park, we are meeting at the Church car park at 10am and then will return to the Blackthorn Centre after lunch, to work together on our ideas. Click here to see Lydiard Park . Remember to bring your camera, sketchbook and lunch. Hope to see you there.

We started a new idea today, a raffle and very successsful it was too...... we all had to bring something from our stash that was yellow.. and the winner walked off with the pieces. Next month the colour is green.

We are also featured in the next edition of Workbox Magazine ( click here) also visit us on ukvillages.co.uk ( click here) under Cricklade.

Annette Ems Day School - Saturday 11th October.

( all these photos will enlarge if you click on them)

Weather was fantastic for the planned day school and the Blackthorn centre looked wonderful with its Autumn mantle. Annette was already there when I arrived and had set up some wonderful work for us to look at.

I was very tired after the trip to Ally Pally yesterday with Kath, but once I saw what was in store for us today, and with a cup of tea in front of me, I was raring to go. So was everyone else. Firstly we made the covers for the books from the mount card we had taken with us, then we painted the covers with our own colour scheme. They were really great.

We then used the fabric and felt to start on the concertina book which was going inside the cover.

After lunch Annette showed us lots of different ways to transfer images from photos/ photocopies and magazines/ newspapers onto our fabric books. We tried a few, and much too soon we had to finish and pack up. I have never known a day pass so quickly.

Here is everyone's work. Hopefully you will all be able to have a much better look on Monday when we meet.

We also thought it would be a good idea to encase the CD cases in these covers, and Annette has given us permission to show you all how to make the cases. So we will try and plan that activity into a future session.

If you would like to visit Annettes Blog its here.

See you all on Monday next week, with all your stitching and ideas.

(Maggie)

Exhibition At Steam 13 & 14th September 2008

Thanks to Shirley for this photo. We had a very good weekend with lots of people interested in our forthcoming Exhibition in February 2009. The CD cases were admired by all, for the diversity of images and the wonderful textile work. Thanks to everyone who submitted the work for us to display and a huge thank you to those volunteers who stewarded over the weekend. Angela also took some good photos.. watch the October newsletter for more photos.

See you all at the next GWE meeting on Monday 13th October 10am- 3pm at Blackthorne Centre.
(Maggie)