March

This month we held our biennial Spring Clean. This was a very successful evening.  Everyone attending brought wrapped goodies to sell and items that they no longer needed.

One of the features of our Spring Clean is that any items not sold by the end of the evening must be retrieved by the person who donated them and taken home again. Suffice it say there was not much that had to be re-claimed by the end of the evening.

It always feels good to have opportunity to clear out unwanted items that could be very useful to someone else. The downside is that you each go home with as much if not more than you came with!! Hey Ho! 

Our speaker this month was Alice Colson. 
Unfortunately I missed this very interesting talk.  Alice designs fabrics and trimmings for interiors. Alice’s work was spotted at her BA (Hons) degree show at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.  An interesting feature of her work was the use of a Kay’s Practical Embroiderer.  These are very difficult to get hold of now but she has developed a very modern method of using them. 

Quite co-incidentally one of our members had one of these and discovered that the lady who created them had lived in a house just around the corner from the studio where our branch meets.

Alice’s work is well worth a look at. http://www.alicecolson.com/