Our Exhibition is over for another 2 years, but I have photos of the work to show you in small batches which I'm sure you will enjoy. This has been rather difficult for me as I was not present at the Guild Exhibition this year, but Moya and Sue kindly gave me photos and Moya even went to the trouble of changing the file name under each one so I would know whose work it was.


Alison Mercer, who was invited to open the exhibition and had the very difficult task of choosing the winners with Moya McCarthy our hard working Chairman.


Autumn Leaves by Anne Cross.


Art Nouveau Box by Judy Roberts.


A Bridge Too Far by Chris Smith.


Four People by Jan Sandham.

The Guild's Christmas Lunch

Saturday was the North Wales Embroiderers' Guild Christmas Lunch here at
Faenol Fawr Country House Hotel
Do take a look at the website.


Emma above was in charge of the arrangements and we were fortunate enough that Olga our Speakers Secretary managed to find us an excellent replacement speaker in Norma Walmsley when our former Guest Speaker, Desiree ? had to cancel due to illness. We were very disappointed Desiree and wish you a speedy recovery. I'm sure there will be another opportunity to hear your talk.


This is part of Norma's leaflet.
She gives an hour's talk with large coloured pictures projected on to a screen, full of humour, interest and a very human view of life in a small Asian kingdom: In the home of the richest man in the world. She taught the children of the Omani royal family. And in 1990 moved to Brunei where she was invited by the Sultan to take the post of Governess to his children, where she stayed for 10 years.

As Norma is now retired, she has a light workload and can often provide a talk at the last minute.

The fees she earns from her talks go to a family charity. A small Filipino village on the island of Mindanao.


This is the happy chatty table I shared. I just wanted you all to hear the sound of a crowd of women enjoying themselves.






Joyce our hard working Course Secretary unfortunately had an accident and broke her ankle, but nothing would stop her from joining the Christmas lunch wheeled in by a friend in a wheelchair. We all wish you a speedy recovery Joyce.
We were all so pleased to see Anne (Cross)at the lunch and looking so well after her recent illness.

The Voirrey Exhibition 1

The Guild exhibition at the Voirrey Embroidery Centre
is well worth a visit and if you have never visited the centre you are in for a treat. There are shops full of beautiful works of art for sale, wonderful for Christmas gifts at this time of the year and you can have a lovely meal or some coffee and cakes too. Our exhibition is on until January 8th.

This is Voirrey on the right of this photo and she invited us to exhibit at her gallery and we are all very grateful to her.


This photo was not supposed to be posted, but they both look so happy I couldn't resist it. They are Susanne our Programme Secretary on the left and Moya our Chairman on the right.


Here is Chris taking photos of the exhibition. Both she and her husband are always ready to share their expertise and to help put up our exhibitions.


Above and below are some of the best images I managed to take at the exhibition, unfortunately, even on the same settings some of the photos have an orangey cast to them that no amount of adjusting could change.

Sue Gallacher

Alison Reynolds

Janine Jones
Miriam Forder

Moya McCarthy

There are a few more photos to follow, but here is a short message to members of the North Wales Embroiderers' Guild.
I haven't had everyone's permission to show their work on this blog. If anyone objects, will you please email me at margaret.rbts@virgin.net as soon as possible please so that I can remove the photo? I do know some people are not happy to have their work on the Internet and I don't wish to offend anyone.

Fabric Paper Book covers

The course today was taught by Miriam Forder, who is a member of our Guild. Everyone who's been on one of her courses knows they are in for a treat and there was a long list waiting for someone to drop out. We were not disappointed and we had a day of new techniques and ideas that can be used for so many types of projects, not just book covers and Miriam throws in so many tips to use along the way.




The day passed far too quickly and here are a few photos of those present.

 

A lovely collage of some of the work created. We have a Members Day on Thursday where we will be making ATC's and we hope that people will bring some finished work from the course with them. So come and visit Croesew towards the end of the week if you would like to see some of our ATC's and work made on the course.

As I was away during the Biennial Exhibition I cannot blog it until I receive photos people have promised to send me of the event, but I understand it was certainly a very successful couple of days and I'm very annoyed to have missed it all due to holiday plans going wrong!

North Wales Biennial Exhibition

This is just a reminder that An Extravaganza of Embroidered Textiles is almost with us and is opening on Friday morning and again on Saturday. I can promise you a feast for the eyes and well worth a visit. Check out the Google map in the sidebar of you haven't visited the exhibition before.

I can guarantee you will be made to feel very welcome.

1000th visitor

We've just had our 1000th visitor on our new blog Croesew. I wish I knew who it was, but I'm afraid I can't find that out. We were given a wonderful talk at the Guild on Monday evening by Voirrey Braithwaite of the Voirrey Craft Centre.

Inherited Textiles

What a wonderful evening we had at the Embroiderers' Guild tonight. This was a talk given for the first time by Voirrey Braithwaite of the Voirrey Embroidery Centre

We were shown the most exciting display of embroideries that Voirrey herself had collected, including a most fantastic piece of work by Cindy Hickok. If you went to the Knitting and stitching at Alexandra Palace you would have seen dozens of samples of her work, but I think I was probably one of the few there who had some of her work right there in my hands to admire. We were all allowed to pass Voirrey's treasured possessions around the room so we all had a proper look at it. She said she'd rather do this with her things than let them go to some Museum where they would not be seen by all that many people.

There may be a photo of a wonderful cloak she brought with her and had someone model it before long. But as I forgot to take my camera that evening I don't have photos to share.