We enjoyed a fun, well led and well organised activity session. Rowan introduced cold water dying and Jayne colour from flowers, the latter held in the foyer as it is a noisy process involving hammers. Both allowed everyone to complete each process and take home finished articles.
Pictured below is Rowan’s workshop showing it being prepared and in progress and some finished items. What we produced can be used as the basis of stitching in our own time.
Pictures from Jaynes work shop are shown below, again they can be used as the basis for future projects. Both workshops allowed us to have fun learn something new and chat and enjoy each others company.
We also held our usual raffle, the colour was orange this time and the two beautifully stitched bags are shown below, both so effective. The large bag was completed by Meriel the smaller bag by Clare. Next months raffle is yellow.
The next meeting will feature a talk from Bernice Hopper entitled Pathways and Towpaths. Bernice is then leading a workshop on 31st May 2025, making multimedia tiles. The next workshop is before then on 29th March 2025, making Japanese draw string bags led by Marion Plumb. We were reminded to complete our book spines celebrating our favourite books. Some examples are shown below.
Birmingham Embroidery and Textile Art 