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Wednesday 26 October 2016

All Age Workshop Saturday November 12th

Once again we will be joining in Christ Church Primary School Open Day for our Christmas All Age Workshop; we had a great time last year and we're looking forward to another successful day again.





Wednesday 19 October 2016

Sketchbooks with Diana Holden

Monday 17th October
Sketchbooks with Diana Holden

Firstly, welcome to the new members who joined us on Monday, it was lovely to see you. Also thanks to Diana Holden who came to talk to us about sketchbooks and brought her beautiful work and shared so generously with us. Diana is an embroiderer at St Peter’s Burnley and part of the Diocesan Needlework Group. She encouraged us all to use sketchbooks to help us communicate about our stitch and ourselves. They’re a place to develop ideas and try things out and are not intended to be perfect, they are for us and not other people. She showed us lots of examples of how to start with the dreaded blank white page by adding colour in various ways, and then how we could add drawings, quotes, pictures and samples. We looked at a variety of beautiful sketchbooks she has created and I’m sure that we will all take her practical advice to heart. For those who don’t really use sketchbooks, I hope they feel more confident and inspired to do so; for regular sketchbook users, there were lots of ideas to inspire us to develop them further.


(Photos taken and reproduced with the permission of Diana Holden. Images are the property of Skipton Branch of The Embroiderers' Guild)

Saturday 15 October 2016

Ribbon Embroidery Workshop

Saturday 15th October

We spent a lovely day with Nicola Hulme learning the art of ribbon embroidery, something that was new to most of us at the workshop. We started with cabbage roses woven on wheel spokes and progressed to buds and calix followed by further 'sweeps' of filling flowers and leaves all with beautiful silk ribbons. Highlights with embroidery threads were added to finish the pieces. Thanks to Nicola for making the workshop so enjoyable, it was fascinating and we were all delighted to see how our embroideries developed through the day. We even had birthday cake! 

Some of Nicola's work to inspire us.


(Photos taken and reproduced with the permission of Nicola Hulme. Images are the property of Skipton Branch of The Embroiderers' Guild)

Our work in progress




Monday 10 October 2016

XL Exhibition

(Images are the property of Skipton Branch of The Embroiderers' Guild)

7-8th October 2016

It has taken two years to plan our 40th Anniversary celebration and exhibition but it was definitely worth it!  The new work produced in response to the themes of Ruby, 1970's nostalgia, and canvaswork  was stunning.  The Inchies project displayed in a compositor's box was a brilliant advertisement for the diversity of skills within the group.  Also on show were our big community projects:  StArt in the Dales, Broughton Road Story Cloths and Capability Brown.

Apart from well-deserved praise for the standard of work, one of the most frequent comments I heard was from our own members who had discovered a few hidden talents within the branch.

In total, 155 people visited the exhibition over the two days including special visitors: Christine Poole and Chairman of Yorkshire and the Humber Region, Pauline Heywood.

None of this would have happened without Gail Marsh and Margaret Laycock and the rest of the XL committee.  Thank you so much, all of you, for your hard work and dedication, it was truly XL-ent (pardon the pun!)