January Notices
Birmingham Branch Notices January 2015
We
would like to wish a happy New Year to everyone from all of the
committee. We are looking forward to an exciting and busy year and
can’t wait to hear from Meriel and Janet tonight about their work.
Please everyone extend a warm welcome also to Stephanie Harper our
regional chair.
National
Guild Organisation: Those
of you on email should have received a copy of the proposed changes,
if not there are some spare copies here tonight please take one.
The national AGM Birmingham
Library is on Sat
11th
April if you want to come don’t forget to book your place. The
form was in the Contact magazine and the address to send it to is
Embroiderers Guild house, 1Kings Road, Surrey, KT 12 2RA. We will
definitely be having an exhibition of our branch’s work which will
be placed in the theatre. Pieces will be covered by the Guild’s
insurance. We still don’t know definitely about space and
facilities but will be discussing at our next committee meeting this
month, so should have clear instructions for the next meeting. Be
thinking about what you might like to include.
Regional
Day is happening on
Saturday 20th June 2015,10 till 4 pm, Leaminton Spa. The Madeira
Lecture is by Nicola Jarvis on Goldwork and the competition is All
that Glisters is Not Gold. The Young Embroiderer’s Competition is
Bright and Shiny. Tickets will be approxiamately £18 with an
optional meal for £8. If you would like to go to the day and they
are well worth it, see Clare.
The
final deadline for Tolkien
pieces is the
February meeting so that they can be put together in time for the AGM
Library
first Saturday of
the month 11 am hopefully some of you will be able to join us in
February.
The
list for individual members who are willing to lend
their own equipment
is available tonight please use it if you want to get involved with
this. If for example you have an embellisher you are willing to lend
you would add that with your contact details. Another member could
then approach you individually.
Thank
you for your response to the brief survey
of Branch members
Heather is collating responses and we will feed back to you all soon.
Please
keep supporting the raffle
and volunteer for a bag if you haven’t had a chance to do so.
Colours can be found on the blog, or by asking Lorna, but the colour
for February is orange
so please bring contribution in that colour if you can at the
February Meeting.
Thank
you to Tina who is joining the branch subgroup for The Regional Day
2016 We still need a volunteer
for Cocomad
joining Angela
Bernadette and Jayne. Please think about it we had such fun together
last year and will be organising a meeting soon.
February’s
meeting is colour
Story with
Edwina MacKinnon; Edwina will be sharing with us her passion for
colouring fabrics, and the methods she uses to dye and paint cloth.
Don’t forget
our Saturday Day Schools and see Margaret if you are
interested. The next day is on 28th March and is
‘Basically Speaking with Art Van Go’; learn to use a range of
materials for building up a surface. On 27th June it is
tantalizing textile tag books with Angie Hughes. The workshops are
always friendly and fun and very supportive and uncompetitive so
think about coming along.
We hope you enjoy
this evening; you will no doubt be inspired by the work of our two
speakers
Bernadette on
behalf of the committee
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