August's Drop Spindle workshop, run by Carrie, was very well attended. In fact there were more members in the small meeting room drop spindling than were outside in the main hall doing their own thing (some of which were also drop spindling!). A vast variety of spindles were brought along by Carrie to try and... Continue Reading →
June 2025 This month's meeting brought some of our very lucky members a visit from Jan Beadle along with 8 looms already warped up and ready to fly. And fly they did as you can see from these stunning results. What a fabulous set of colourful work was created by our impressive members, superbly guided... Continue Reading →
April 26th 2025 found a happy handful of knitters of varying competences learning how to manage clever finishing touches to our knitted pieces, all thanks to Judith's extensive expertise (as a WI judge). We mastered mattress stitch in two ways, and knitting on a pocket as an afterthought, amongst discovering other great tips. Now we... Continue Reading →
September 2024 Guild members were treated to a day of learning Mosaic (or slip stitch) knitting techniques run by our own Judith Edwards. We were given the opportunity to learn at least 14 different complex and fascinating patterns expertly presented and tutored by Judith. The day was unusually quiet (for us!) as members concentrated hard... Continue Reading →
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 →
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.
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 →
Saturday 16th June 2018, at Mungrisdale Village Hall was once again a hive of activity as we were shown how to colour-blend on a drum-carder. Visiting tutor Freyalyn Close-Hainsworth travelled from West Yorkshire to demonstrate another of her many fibre skills – this time blending wool and other fibres on a drum-carder to produce colourful,... Continue Reading →
March 2018 Acquiring a new skill in a single day is always a steep learning curve, and a recent workshop at Mungrisdale Village Hall recently, initially seemed every bit as difficult as scaling the steep slopes of Blencathra, close by! Carole Dickens, an active member of Eden Valley Guild of Spinners, Weavers & Dyers, learnt... Continue Reading →
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