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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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.
Wonderful to see such activity again! Here are some photos from Judith... cof
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).
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!
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