All Age Workshop

Looking forward to seeing our regular visitors and hopefully some new ones. Everyone welcome, no experience required!

A Bit of Inspiration

I have been gathering my thoughts for the Travelling Book project we have been running at the Branch, as no doubt will many others, and I have been trawling through my stash and mulling over ideas whilst walking the dog! Sometimes I find it really hard to focus on what I want to do and then when I see what others have done I can feel that my efforts aren't up to much - despite encouragement and reassurance from the lovely ladies in the group. I came across an article on Facebook the other day and thought I would share the link; the article is called 'Are you a textile technique addict?' and is from a site called textileartist.org which you can Google, follow on Facebook or click on the link in bold. There are LOTS of interesting articles and interviews to access and I spent a lovely morning browsing.
So, here is the link to the specific article http://www.textileartist.org/textile-technique-addict or use the link above to go to the site and explore.
Sally

Canvas Work Workshop

What a busy day we had yesterday!  Following last month's talk we had a canvas work workshop. Thanks go to branch member Chris who lead the workshop and who brought lots of examples of her work using this technique. Susie brought some kits for making a canvas work needle case in plastic canvas and there were also materials for making a scissor keeper. For those wanting something a bit bigger there was canvas of different sizes and plenty of threads to dig into to create our own patterns.
Travelling books were swapped - much excitement again!
We had a short talk from Lizzie Dawson the Community Development Officer from Craven Museum - more on that later!
It was lovely to welcome some new members to the branch too.

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