Our June Meeting

The June meeting held on the 10th was a busy stitching day with our two stitch club groups working during the morning session. Chris B’s group continued with their fabulous embroidered dolls and Jose’s group worked on their  charming miniature pieces. Very different work but equally delightful and skilled. After lunch members were invited to try their hand at  some decorative darning. I am very grateful to Annie who stepped in for me and led the session. There were books about and examples of this type of embroidery, and information on its origins along with lots of appropriate, colourful wool available. 

At our next meeting on 1st July we’ll continue with Jose and Chris’s stitch clubs, and the speaker after lunch will be Nikki Parmenter. She will give a demonstration of her techniques and there’ll be project packs on offer. Nikki is an experienced, widely exhibited artist whose work is textile based mixed media. Complex in its production it is colourful and richly worked. This will no doubt be very interesting and something to which we can really look forward. 

Chris