This is the first in an occasional series focusing on Warwickshire Stitchers members. NUALA CHIBA has been a stalwart member of Warwickshire Young Stitchers, and recently completed her A Levels. We hope to see her from time to time when… Read More »New feature – Member profile
Te = hand; Mari = ball Nicola’s lively talk this month provided a fascinating insight into the making of Japanese embroidered thread balls. Temari originated as a game in China (kemari) around the 7th century, before appearing in Japan, and… Read More »July: Nicola Davis’s talk on Temari Balls
A lively, inspiring talk by Jessica on Friday gave us an intriguing glimpse of what to expect on Saturday’s workshop. She showed us images of her zingy, colourful embroideries – some very large scale – which she creates using unconventional… Read More »Fantasy Florals with Jessica Grady
After a great talk about her stitching journey and current work (lots of lovely pieces to admire and touch), Mandy Clayton showed us some of the techniques she uses. Saturday’s workshop was all about exploiting the transparent qualities of different… Read More »A Little Strip of Leaves
Pat Archibald’s talk had us spellbound from the start with her colourful images of craft markets and African artisans at work. The images were taken during a visit she made with then owners of The African Fabric Shop, Maggie &… Read More »Trash to Treasure
What a fabulous week-end we had in the company of Kate Findlay! On Friday Kate entertained us with her talk about the different styles of her work over the last 15 years. Starting with the Henley series – quilts made… Read More »Wild about gardens
Our first Members’ Day of the year on Saturday 6th January was fun, relaxed and creative. Judi and Wendy, our Members’ Day organisers, did a brilliant job of putting together a project for creating small fabric patches suitable for use… Read More »2024 off to a great start …
We rounded off 2023 in great style – after our very successful exhibition at the Compton Verney Textile Fair in November, we created a stunning Christmas tree at St Marys, Warwick which was decorated with our fine collection of embroidered… Read More »A farewell to 2023
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.… Read More »Compton Verney, Christmas trees and more …
Anne Griffiths’ talk last week-end shed a different light on textiles – a Diamond Light, in fact! (sorry) Diamond Light Source is the name of the UK’s national synchrotron facility, whose advanced scientific facilities help to keep the UK at… Read More »Science meets Textiles