We’ve had a pretty busy year, and have now seen the fruits of some of our labours in the prestigious Textile Fair at Compton Verney, which drew a large number of visitors, and lots of compliments about our extensive exhibition. [“The best part of the event”!]
Lots of photos on WhatsApp and on the WS website.
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Our beautifully decorated hearts are soon to go into the St Mary’s Warwick Christmas Tree Festival. It will be bigger than ever this year, and there will be various events on during the Festival.
The Festival opens on Victorian Evening at 5pm on Thursday 23rd November, and is then open every day until Sunday 3rd December, with a “Late Night” opening on 30th until 7.30pm. Normal opening hours are from 10am to 4pm (Wednesdays from 10.30am and Sundays from 12 noon). Entry is £2 per adult, children are free. |
There will be a chance to relax then at our *** Christmas Members’ Day on Saturday 2nd December ***
♦ Secret Santa ♦ Quiz. ♦ Stitched Xmas Gift Tags ♦ Display of Christmas-related stitch items ♦
♦ Sit & Stitch a ‘pyramid pouch’ for your tree or a gift ♦
Members have received details of the day and the requirements list for making a pouch by email, but please let us know if you are a member and have not seen these.
Finally, a thank-you to Lindsay Roberts – The Border Tart – whose Zoom talk a couple of weeks ago painted a vivid picture of textile production in the north-west of India. It was a whistle-stop tour of her travels there, and focused in particular on the glorious colours and patterns of the block printing and embroidery, indigo and Islamic geometric design.
https://www.tartsart.co.uk/
The following half-day workshop gave us the chance to try our hands at kantha stitching, under Lindsay’s guidance and with the benefit of her templates. We concentrated on ‘running kantha’ – a straight running stitch, and the original and earliest form of kantha.
Most of us had probably not realised how useful kantha stitching could be for borders and geometric shapes. So much to practise – and a real eye opener!
Kantha means ‘rags’ and originally referred to the piecing together of cloth scraps to be worn by Buddha’s disciples, but has now come to mean both the stitch and the resulting cloth.
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Don’t forget that details of all our workshops, members’ days and talks can be found on the Warwickshire Stitchers website.