Sunday 29 October 2017

October Meeting

We had a really good meeting today, lots more work coming in for the exhibition at Nunnington Hall and lots of little white decorations that everyone had done to hang from the tree branches that Christina provided.


I managed to get a bit closer so you can see a few of them a bit better.

We had a really good talk by Janet Browne who told us all about how she got involved with her style and topics that she works in.  She brought lots of her birds and maps for us to look at as well as sketch books and samples.  We had a lovely time afterwards looking through them all.

Here are some of the pieces she brought and lots of eager hands rooting through them.


Our next meeting will be just a Members Day and Val and Angela have a small kit for people to do if they want to.  I shall be at Nunnington Hall all day doing three demonstrations of Angelina Christmas cards, so if you want to meet me and see what the Branch members have been up to, come along to Nunnington Hall.  Dates are above.

Sunday 8 October 2017

September Meeting

We had a full house nearly at our new venue in Snainton.  It is a lovely big room with plenty of light although the ceiling is high which makes it a bit noisy but we have all seemed to settle in.  Today was also our AGM which we went through as quickly as possible so that we could listen to our speaker, Andrew Clay who gave a very enjoyable talk on The Royal Jewels.  Going back to Queen Mary, he explained the difference between the Crown Jewels, jewels that belong to the Royals and the Queen's private collection.  The photographs were stunning, the amount of jewellery worn by Queen Mary and Queen Alexander was incredible and the dresses were just as impressive.  A really good talk that kept everyone discussing it afterwards.  Shame he didn't have any samples to show us!  Andrew is the Manager of Woodend Creative space in Scarborough and does two or three different talks and they are all very good.
We asked Andrew to judge our annual Rose Bowl Competition, the topic of which was Pantomime. There were a number of entries but the winner was Nikki Brown with her beanstalk interpretation.  I would love to have taken some pictures but didn't have a camera with me but I hope to get some from other members to put on this page as soon as I can.
We are all bringing together work for the exhibition at Nunnington Hall which is coming up very soon.  The dates for the exhibition are on the side panel, please come and look round a lovely house and see all the work we have been doing.
The Mystery Stitchery is moving along, people are getting the hang of what we are doing and are making plans for how to put the various pieces of work together when they are all finished.