We were able, this year, to hold an exhibition at our meeting place in Cotteridge after a long gap and were delighted to welcome lots of visitors. We want to acknowledge the hard work that went into the day, making the exhibition pieces, working together to make items for the sales table which was very popular, setting up and taking down the displays and working hard on the day itself. Members spent time with visitors, worked on the sales table and served drinks and cakes.
It isn’t possible to do justice to the range and detail of the work displayed above, which covered a wide range of textile art, traditional and more experimental. You can see if you hunt the panel the group completed for the commonwealth games in Birmingham and a wonderful dragon completed by a group of young stitchers.
The garland of friendship rings also pictured above was completed by many individual members of BETA as were the letters making up our banner. Another group project the ‘ruby squares’ can be seen. They were completed to celebrate our 40th anniversary as a group. Working on projects together is one of our most satisfying activities, allowing a range of member skills and interests to be brought together.
We had wonderful comments added to our visitor book. Words and phrases like talented, wonderful, fabulous, fantastic variety, beautiful, professional, inspiring, fun, were all used often repeatedly. One visitor said ‘Gorgeous, impressive exhibition. Loved the beauty creativity and passion.’ Another added a mention of the wonderful home made cakes so some of them are also pictured below.
Finally we are meeting again on the second Monday in September 2023, having had an August break, and would love to welcome anyone who wants to consider joining us, perhaps as a result of seeing the exhibition.
Birmingham Embroidery and Textile Art 