Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
1 Kings Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 2RA
T: 01932 260738 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
1 Kings Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 2RA
T: 01932 260738 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
A happy and healthy New Year to everyone!
It is the time for making resolutions and hoping that we will keep them. New Year really is a good time to make a fresh start and to get more motivated. Although I am sure embroiderers are not short of motivation, it is just more time we need. Maybe we should resolve to put aside one hour a day for embroidery?
Last November, at our very successful Sunday workshop with Brenda Parsons, she gave us a concise summary of the main points to take into consideration when making a piece of work. I am finding these extremely useful to refer to, so thought it would be a good idea to share them with everyone. They would apply, not just to embroidery, but to all kinds of artwork from painting to flower arranging.
DOES YOUR PIECE WORK? IS IT RESOLVED? IF NOT, WHAT NEXT?
SELF AND PEER CRITIQUE
Ask questions about CONTRAST; RELATIONSHIP; FOCAL POINT; BALANCE; INTEGRATION.
I hope you find this useful.
With best wishes
Dee.
January 14th morning Brenda Scarman talk "A Delight in the Traditional". Apologies for this title being omitted from the Branch programme.
afternoon Brenda Scarman mini workshop "Elizabethan Embroidery". Packs available from Brenda at a cost of £5 please let her know if you would like one asap. Thank you editor.
February 11th morning Linda Westerman talk
afternoon Linda Westerman workshop "Hidden Treasures"
March 3rd morning Cathedral Project, An opportunity to work on your own contribution to the cathedral exhibition.
afternoon Putting it together stitching the group canvas work "postcards" together.
April 14th Mildred Higgins Day
A great day out to indulge ourselves with all the elements we so enjoy.
It was so easy to pop on the coach and be driven to Harrogate. The coach stopped outside the Exhibition centre where we were able to get into the exhibition easily.
What a WOW again! So much talent, so inspiring, and all showing how Art, Embroidery, Textiles, Therapy, and the Joy of Creating are very much alive.
Congratulations to Bronwyn, for her entry in the Embroiderers Guild Members competition.
I especially enjoy the work by the young textile artists who have just qualified; they are so exciting and enthusiastic. I keep my fingers crossed for their future and wish them all the luck they need to secure the ultimate, a job that pays them for their skills.
As always there is something for us all.
Thank you (team) you were there in time for the 4 pm coach home.
Hilary
A wonderful opportunity to visit the beautiful island of Jersey and indulge in some textile therapy at the same time. Workshops are run by well known textile artists such as Fay Maxwell, Ruth Skinner, Naomi Renouf and our very own Brenda Scarman. Inclusive packages can be booked through "Destination Specialists" in Jersey. If you are interested in more information details of the workshops are on the Guild notice board.
Quilts4London Needs You!
Quilts4London is a fantastic project to make pennants for all the athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The aim is to make an A3-sized pennant for each athlete participating in the Games - about 14,000 pennants in total.
The project is open to people of all ages and abilities and gives quilters, felt makers, embroiderers and textile artists the opportunity to express their support through the medium of fabric, fibre and stitch.
The idea came from quilters Irene Heathcote and Catherine Hill. Instructions and templates are freely downloadable from the website at www.quilts4london.org.uk. The International Felt Makers Association, Batik Guild, Cross Stitch Guild, UK Hand Knitting Association, Guild of Silk Painters, the Braid Society, and the Woodturners of Great Britain are involved it is a wonderful way to showcase the diverse forms of textiles.
EAST MIDLANDS KIMONO EXHIBITION
The Exhibition of "Kimono and all things Japanese" will be held in Mansfield 12th May to 2nd June.
East Midlands Region of the Embroiderers Guild. Kickstart 2011-12 This years theme is "Movement Muscle and Metabolism" an investigation into all things sporty.
A further Advice day will be held on Sunday 11th March 2012 in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire
To qualify to exhibit in the Kickstart exhibition, participants are required to attend at least one of the days on offer. The cost of the Inspiration, Development and Advice Days will be £28 per person per day. For further information contact Tel: 01629 584487 Penny Marsden
REVIVAL - Sculpture and craftwork on a theme.
The Old Hall, Parnell Street, Gainsborugh. DN21 2NB.
Running now until November 30th, 10am to 5pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 5pm Saturday & Sunday (closes at 4pm in November). Admission free. Exhibitors: Ann Povey, Glass; Kelly Fisher, Ceramics; Laura Mabbutt, felt work; Vincent Canning, paper; Julie Willoughby - Textiles.
REGIONAL DAY 28th April 2012 Northampton - Competition title "Home Sweet Home!?"
Mildred Higgins Day April 14th 2012 Competition - Patterns from Plant life.
June 25th to July 4th 2012 Lincolnshire Embroiderers Guild exhibition "Cathedral Inspirations and other work" at Lincoln Cathedral.
REGIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 13-15th July 2012