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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

July 2011

Our first meeting in July was our annual Strawberry Fair. This year we invited Wyn Ingham as our guest. Wyn has been setting us some challenges this year and we thought it would be nice to meet her, for her to meet us and for her to see how we had got on with the challenges. Wyn is an absolute delight. If she lived any nearer we would have to ‘press gang’ her into becoming one of our members. She made some really lovely complimentary and constructive comments about our pieces and then set us our next challenge.

The first challenge was a ‘ring wrap’ ( for a ring box) in the style of Faberge or Cloisonné. These were fun and once we had set a deadline for them and presented them at one of our meetings so see how we were all progressing we then moved on to our second challenge of making a ‘book wrap/ cover’. This was to reflect the contents of the book. As the branch chairman I was delighted that we had such a nice selection and variation to show to Wyn when she came. My thanks also to Seonaid, our Programme Secretary, for organising the challenges with Wyn.

Some of the book covers are work in progress.

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You have seen the ring wraps already but as they were out on show for Wyn and I had to photograph them again – you might as well have another look at them!

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The Strawberry tea was a really successful evening. It was well attended and there was a lovely spread of edible goodies. My thanks to everyone involved in making the evening such a success and to all those who attended.

Our second meeting in July was with Norma Hopkins and Terri Jones. They are both members of Textile 21. Norma was the main speaker and Terri also made a contribution to the evening. They were able to describe several approaches to designing and showed some examples of their work using the digital projector and samples for us to look at afterwards.

You can read more about Norma and Terri at this link
http://www.textilearts.net/tutors/norma_terri/index.php

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