August 2024 This meeting was a particularly emotional one for our members. Heather Seddon, our Chair and inspiring and gifted member for many years stood down due to ill-health. She was presented with a bouquet and gave an uplifting farewell speech. Heather will be very much missed. Ten members were treated to a tapestry weaving... Continue Reading →
27th and 28th July 2024 Kirkby Stephen, in the heart of the Upper Eden Valley, celebrated Westmorland Dales Festival, commemorating the expansion of the Yorkshire Dales into Cumbria. The weekend included a number of guided walks in the area and presented a great array of groups, crafters and artists both visual and musical. The weekend... Continue Reading →
Thirteen guild members had a wonderful day at Higham Hall on Sunday 28th July 2024. We prepared dyebaths of madder, weld, onion skins and indigo and used them to dye woollen yarn vibrant shades of red, yellow, brown, blue and green. The weather was perfect, allowing us to eat our picnic lunches outside. A big... Continue Reading →
March 2024, it's not all spinning, weaving or dyeing! Cecilia and Graham Hewitt came along to Mungrisdale to pass on their considerable mending skills to Guild members. What a joy to learn how to darn our beautiful but worn woolly items giving them new leases of life.
This year's Challenge was entitled "Out of the Blue". Members were given two shades of blue dyed Shetland to do as wished with. As ever the results were beautiful, inspiring and fascinating. It never ceases to amaze us how much variations on a theme can be found! Photos were taken at the Challenge presentation in... Continue Reading →
Yet again our busy members wow the gathering with their stunning work from the past year. We were amazed with dyeing using copper piping from Sally, an incredible woven housecoat using the bark of a eucalyptus tree as inspiration from Carol, clever and wavy woven scarves from Hazel, a most useful circular knitting needle holder... Continue Reading →
This was a vibrant and mixed meeting with a dazzling display of work from the Summer School, some fleece preparation practice, ancient Greek drop spindling, dizzing, spinning, weaving and plenty of chat and joy!
The wonderfully talented Jane came along on Saturday 17th June 2023 to show Guild workshopppers how to create a fantastic Herdwick Sheep picture. Helpfully everyone had an outline taken from a beautiful photo of the Herdy predrawn onto hessian and from the photo each Guild member worked with various fibres and techniques to reproduce the... Continue Reading →
April 2023 This month workshop participants had the great pleasure of playing with silk, interesting plant fibres, flowers, leaves, coloured silks and yarns to create lampshades or beautiful art pieces with wallpaper paste. Simple and fun but so very effective.
There was a wonderful buzz in the room for this month's meeting at Mungrisdale. We were worried that as we needed to change the day from our usual 3rd Saturday in the month that the workshop would not be able to take place but the utterly marvellous Jan pulled out all the stops in her... Continue Reading →
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