Mary Paulger and canvas work embroidery 21st October 2017

With canvases stapled to an A5 frame we chose our image, colour and stitches inspired by Mary's lovely piece. By the following Friday meeting two of us had completed a piece and brought it along for the rest of the group to see.

Mary Paulger's stitch club - Canvas Work 21st Oct Skellingthorpe Rd

Location - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

LDS Meetinghouse, Skellingthorpe Rd, Lincoln LN6 0PB

10am-3pm
£5 for members and £7.50 for non members

Stitch Club requirements;

You will need a simple design about A5 in size, with at least three distinct areas.

Children's colouring books are a good source

Suggestions are a landscape, hot air balloon passing a bridge, small boat on water etc.

Please bring 

Black permanent marker

Embroidery scissors

Tapestry needles, size 22 or 24

Variety of threads including: 

Stranded cottons - we will be blending 7 or more strands of these to create shading.  examples:blues for sky, grey greens for water.

Tapestry wools  = personal choice

Appleton's crewel wool - these can also be blended in the needle.

A small  (A5) wooden frame ( charity shops are a good source)

I will have canvas, stapler and a couple of spare frames.

Canvas work source books for stitches and inspirations

Variety of yarns etc

Just bring an assortment of what you have and we will share.
See you there - Mary

AGM together with Kay and Georgina from the Fabric Corner Friday 29th Sept 2017

AGM
Chair - Christine Plummer
Treasurer - Anne Goodall
Joint secretaries - Judith Snaith and Michelle Maloney
Programme secretary - Sheila Walker

Kay and Georgina came from Fabric Corner, Melville Street, Lincoln with a selection of textile materials and gave us a demonstation of how to make origami fabric stars

2017 to 2018 Bailgate Programme

Friday evenings at Lincoln Bailgate Methodist Church Hall

29 Sept 2017 AGM and Fabric Corner shop

27 Oct 2017 Members practical
24 Nov 2017 Paper Talks, by Jonathon Korejko

26 Jan 2018 Lincoln students studying textiles

23 Feb 2018 Weaving - Maggie Ayling

30 Mar 2018 Stitching stations by Committee

27 Apr  2018 Portraits by Sue Stone

25 May 2018 Paper making book by Christine Plummer

29 June 2018 Jewellery by Lesley Porter

27 July 2018 Marianne Young’s Collection of Interesting Textiles

Workshop and Stitch Clubs 
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint

see right hand side pages for more details

The Quaker Tapestry, talk by Anne Woods July 28th 2017

Anne Woods spoke at our monthly meeting about the designing and making of the Quaker Tapestry (77 panels total) which resides in Friends Meeting House, Kendal, Cumbria.  Appleton wool was used for the needlework onto specially woven natural wool cloth (not dyed).  

Flowers detail from panel D8: Botanists

Fish detail from panel F21: Friends in Canada

 Detail of the Quaker Tapestry Logo

Detail of the ship, The Woodhouse, which took the first Quakers to America.

The panels tell the story of the Quaker movement and its influence on modern world developments. Only a third of the panels are on display (in Kendal) at any one time. www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk for more information.

photos and words by Judy O'Neill

Christine Plummer's stitch club - Two Books in a Day 15th July 2017

Practical Japanese evening with Lyn Rochester and Origami Kimonos 30th June 2017

We all sat together passing along little pieces of coloured paper, following Lyn's clear spoken directions as we folded and tied. There was little chatting as we focused on the work in hand and each of us created four little bright figures, just the right size for a book mark. While we worked we nibbled Japanese snacks and a few of us had brought along Japanese related items to add to the ambience.