Lovely to all be back together again, much as we enjoyed our February zoom. For this meeting, three of our members, Meriel, Brenda and Margaret led three different short sessions, where members could make respectively: small landscapes, mandalas and needle felted pictures. Members circulated around each activity, half an hour for each. The session leaders had worked really hard preparing and were generous with their sharing of information and materials. Everyone learnt something and we had a chance to talk have fun and build relationships in the group. Some of the activity is pictured below.
We also had our orange raffle the lovely bags made by Helen Miller and Bev are again pictured below. We also had the chance to look through a banner of emblems that had been made for a past regional day. Each panel represented a part of the region and some of the banner as a whole is shown, along with the panel representing Birmingham.
One of our members has also reminded us of an exhibition at Lichfield Cathedral consisting made up of 12 huge silk panels, reimagining the creations story. More information at http://www.creation-threads.co.uk and http://www.lichfield-cathedral.org. The exhibition runs from 17th April to 2nd June. An example is pictured below it all looks amazing.
Our next meeting on 8th April 2024 will feature a talk from Karina Jassi a new textile art graduate. Should be really interesting and is a a chance for us to learn from and support new talent. The raffle will be yellow, please bring anything you can spare to include. Don’t forget our summer competition for 8th July is flowers.
Birmingham Embroidery and Textile Art 