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!
September 2023 Meeting
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Needlefelting Workshop with Jane Bardgett
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 →
Wendy Stanger Lampshade making Workshop
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.
Jan Beadle’s Weaving Workshop February 2023
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 →
Challenge January 2023
So our challenge for 2022 was to create a square of 8 inches (or 20cm). Guild provided us with 50g of white Shetland and 50g of dark green Shetland to do with what we like! Here are the results as of January 2023. Next stage is to put them together and exhibit them as a... Continue Reading →
Show and Tell November 2022
This year's exhibits did not fail to impress! We had beautiful and fascinating examples of collaborations, workshop pieces, work for exhibitions and stunning personal learning and fabulous finished projects and even a mini disaster to talk about! Total joy all round. And at the Guild meeting nobody stops you from feeling as well as looking.
September 2022 Braid Weaving
Wonderful to see such activity again! Here are some photos from Judith... cof
Challenge February 2022
2021's Guild Challenge theme was entitled "Bright Intervals" and the members did not hold back! Beautiful results were exhibited at February's meeting, showing members' varied and substantial skills. Thank you for everyone for bringing along their pieces and also thank you to Hazel for sharing her stunning leaf patterned bag via Zoom (not shown here).
Show and Tell November 2021
Thank you EVGSWD for a thoroughly enjoyable meeting! Members brought along all kinds of fabulous items and works of art that they've been working on in 2021. From Denise's first remarkable skein and homespun hat to Rachel's extraordinary woven tea towels, enjoy the pictures! You clever and inspiring lot!
Challenge 2021
“THROUGH THE WINDOW” 16TH January 2021 Welcome to Challenge 2021. Once again, a big thank you to all contributors. A tree through the year I tried to portray a tree through the year, with flowers to fruit to snowy twigs. Lots of inkle braids, and a fair bit of twisted woolly stuff, but all from... Continue Reading →
