Greetings! The year has now got off to a good start, with a great day spent with Marilyn showing us how to create beads, jewellery and small items from felt. It was great to get together again after quite a bumpy couple of months; the floods in November and the snow in December/January seemed to curtail all sorts of get-togethers, but we (hopefully) are back on track now.
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PLEASE REMEMBER – the next few meetings will be at Threlkeld Village Hall, until the Friends’ Meeting House has completed its works after flooding. We’ll keep you informed.
The next meeting is at 10am on Thursday, 18th February (coffee available at 9.45am). It is an opportunity to make silk paper (a different technique to the one we tried with Sandra Kedzlie a couple of years ago), and then to embellish our work and even make a little item with the resulting ‘fabric’.
Lyn Armstrong is bringing the raw silk, detergent and setting medium and a pattern to make a purse, as a kit, and this will be provided at no extra charge. However, you do need to bring the following if you have them:
- usual sewing kit
- stuff to attach, i.e. beads, sequins or anything you fancy. The colours are going to be in the range of blue / green / pink
- Any nice threads you have.
- Bits and pieces you might want to add to the paper as you make it, i.e. tiny bits of cut up threads, tiny sparkly bits, dried flower petals, angelina, etc.
- The messy bit will require:- a paint brush for the wetting of the paper with detergent about 1” – 2” will do
- a smaller paint brush for the setting medium
- some old nylon net (some will be provided, but you might have to take some 'wet' paper home on the net so you might want to bring your own)
- a hair dryer will help to speed up the drying – we will provide a couple but you may have room to bring your own
- some paper towels for helping mop up the water etc
- Your lunch!
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An example of the silk paper we will be making.
Two examples of purses made from the paper
The 18th March meeting is to be a talk about costume making by Eleanor Paxton, and should prove very interesting. This will be followed by a demonstration of Lesley’s embellishing machine (following on from Marilyn’s dry felting by hand), and the opportunity to do some of your own work – perhaps bring along that Chairman’s Challenge sampler to catch up?
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Branch NewsSally Evans has asked us all to let her have any ideas, sketches, drawings, examples and explanations of fabric used, etc, for our motifs supplied to the KEG banner. She has kindly offered to create a file which will contain all the information, for posterity!
The North West Region, Area 1 (which is us!) has set up a workshop in Sedburgh on 20th March. Contact Kathryn Thompson on 01253 882121 for further information.
The Regional AGM is on 16th October, at Preston. I am letting you know this date very early, hoping that somebody will be able to attend on the club’s behalf. It would be great to show that Keswick is represented, and supporting the Region.
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