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KEG Newsletter April 2010

A belated Happy Easter to all! It really is lovely to see the daffodils blooming, and to feel the garden will once again be surprising us with what it can do. PLEASE REMEMBER – the next few meetings will be at Threlkeld Village Hall, until the Friends’ Meeting House has completed its works after flooding. We expect to be back there in September!

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Our next meeting is at 10am on Thursday, 15th April (coffee available at 9.45am), and Val Osborn is guiding us in making a very pretty scissor keeper. A kit is supplied, so all you need to bring is your ‘usual sewing kit’ and your lunch, and enjoy a day of pleasant stitching.

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On 20th May we have a visit from Golden Hinde. Sue and Sarah Hinde are teaching us the techniques of Goldwork, and will bring along their shop for the purchase of goodies which you might need. There will be a kit of materials available for the actual workshop, but I am attaching the list of things for you to bring, as it is pretty lengthy. Don’t be put off though – there is lots of help available, and we can share most things, as usual. This is a great opportunity to learn, or recap, with a very good tutor, on techniques which give such a beautiful result! Val will take names on the 15th April, or please ring Pat after 18th April and by 22nd April at the latest.

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17th June is the grand KEG outing, and this year we are going south to visit the Bankside Museum in Halifax in the afternoon, following on from lunch at the Mereside Centre at Shibden Hall. Bankside Museum has an internationally renowned collection of textiles and costume, plus contemporary exhibitions, in a Victorian Italianate house built by a gentleman in the wool trade.


To organise the transport and catering, we need to know numbers, so please let Val know on Thursday, 15th April, or ring Pat on 017687 79448 after 18th April and by 22nd April at the latest. Entry to the museum is free, we are finding out about costs for lunch, and transport is yet to be decided. Val will explain on Thursday 15th April.

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Keswick Embroiderers’ Exhibition – Moot Hall Keswick – 2nd July 2010

We are hoping you will have lots to show at this exhibition.  Please let us have your insurance forms by 20th May so that the appropriate Insurance form can be completed, etc.

To remind you of our exploits - during the years since our last exhibition we have produced the following: Crewel embroidery (x2), Calico Creations, used transfer paints, made felt, made textile flowers, doll heads, stars, Mountmellick, fabric jewellery, canvas work, made appliqué angels, silk paper, and will no doubt have produced a scissor keeper and some goldwork by then! Don’t forget, your pieces don’t have to be complete; work in progress is just as interesting for our visitors.

The Chairman’s Challenge samplers will be interesting to exhibit (hope you are proceeding well on that!) and we hope to have the Rainbow Squares back in our possession. We will have a sales table, and it would be great if you could make some cards, or little items which our visitors might like to buy when they visit. If you want to sell any of the items which you are exhibiting, you are welcome to put a price on them and the group will accept a 10% commission if they are sold.

Sally Evans is still wanting our ideas, sketches, drawings, examples and explanations of fabric used, etc, for the motifs supplied to the KEG banner. Sally will create a file which will contain all the information, for posterity, and we would like to put that information in our exhibition. Just jot down what you felt about your piece, and the materials you used, etc, and we will make a display to supplement the KEG Banner.

Pat Knifton 017687 79448