We’re finally back after several family visits and a week away in the Scottish Borders and after a very busy Bank Holiday weekend I’ve finally managed to get some computer time to blog about the Scunthorpe Embroiderers’ Guild’s July meeting and workshop with Chris Gray.
The Saturday was our final meeting of the year which means along with the usual attractions like the sales table and the usual display of Travelling Books we had a display of hand embroidery worked in response to various workshops we’ve had throughout the year. These pieces were all entered for our annual Dorothy Theaker Award to honour the lovely lady who founded our branch of the Guild and worked tirelessly to develop and promote embroidery.
Then we enjoyed a talk by Chris about the tribal textiles that “float her boat”. She handed out stunning embroidered, beaded examples for us to look at and handle, talked about her love for and appreciation of them, how they informed her work and encouraged photos.
It’s books and medieval patterns, especially tiles that really appeal to me and I completely fell in love with these delicious little printed, painted, embroidered booklets.
I’ve ‘known’ Chris for several years through her blog, but in person she is even more warm, witty and engaging and great fun to listen to. It really was a fascinating and inspiring talk and I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t wait to get stuck into her amulet workshop the following day!
What a wonderful display of skill and creativity!
Some gorgeous work on display. My favourite is anything medieval too
Well done, as per….M.K
WOW!!!! All this creativity in one place at one time. I’m envious!!!
It’s lovely to see so many lovely pieces of needlework. It would be nice to have a link to Chris’s blog. How come you only have guikd meetings for the first half of the year?
There should be a hyperlink to Chris’ blog attached to her name in the first paragraph. 🙂 Our guild meetings follow the school year, so our AGM is in September and we run monthly meetings through to July, with a break in August.
I really enjoyed my time with all you Scunthorpe girls too!!