January meeting 2012

Wonderful meeting today, working on our own stitching and plannig the banners and sashes for the next Lydiard Exhibition.

November meeting

Basic machining by Maggie Harris.

Members really learnt a great deal about the sewing machine and its capabilitiesand also lots of fun at the same time-- of course.

October meeting

The October meeting was great fun with Maggie's workshop " Stitches -Use and Abuse.

The members also bought along the finished bags from Maureen's workshop last month.... we are all officially "bag" ladies. We all had great fun.

Congratulations Cricklade

Cricklade

are

Champion of Champions

Well done everyone.

Have a look here for more details

Cricklade in Bloom

Cricklade has very proudly reached the finals in the RHS Britain in Bloom top finalists.

In support we have displayed our Embroideries of the North Meadow, in the Town information

Office.

Urchfont Open Day 2011

Lydiard House and Park 2011

Our June meeting took place at Lydiard as planned and we enjoyed the morning in glorious sunshine exploring the walled garden and park for recording ideas by drawing or taking photos, in the hope of inspiring our next Exhibition for Lydiard called " Traditions".

Many of us also visited the Church, and despite having drawn and taken photos before, we found new ideas and inspirations this time

After a wonderful lunch in the new tearooms or in the " hut" which we hired for the day.. we went into the house to meet Sophie the curator. Sophie treated us to a wonderful talk and explanation about the textiles in the house, and allowed us to handle some of the pieces using white gloves of course.

This photo is of the black shawl. In our July meeting we will be looking at our Lydiard photos, sketches and inspirations and hopefully starting our sketchbooks of ideas.