End of year exhibition

Another year closes and the students once again have pulled it out of the bag to produce some amazing work. Anne Jones the Mayor of Harrogate came and presented to the the students, what a lovely lady she is taking a real interest in their work, Jane, Linda, Yvonne and Heather have just completed their Diploma. . Here are some of the students work who have completed there is not enough space to put everyone  on unfortunately    Castle Textile group are now recruiting for September for anyone who wishes to take the course. Unfortunately city and guilds are not supporting the Certificate and Diploma anymore but we are going to carry on with the course under our own banner , with an Intermediate and Advanced course. For further enquiries contact ... castletextilegroup@btconnect.com 

One week later the weather couldn't be more different, time to pull out the wellies and woolly hats ! 

Ruskin Lace

Last Wednesday the Stitching Group spent a lovely afternoon at The home of Ruskin, Brantwood House,  we had a talk from Wendy Young on the history of Ruskin Lace and she gave us a demonstration on how it is made . 

Midsummer

English garden , lovely sunshine , glass of wine , what more ? 

Oops ! What happens when you have dyed your hands and you realise you are going out for a posh meal tonight .......oh dear  

Naughty but nice

Welsh cakes, bara brith and cream tea just had to be done in the beautiful town of Conway, the visit would not be complete without a visit to the castle

AGM

As it was a lovely sunny day I went for a walk on the pier could resist an ice cream but I was surprised at the kiosk selling sea shells and lace ! What a combination ! I expect that it has got something to do with the fact that Llandudno is an old Victorian sea side town. In fact Victorian was the theme for the quilters guild AGM this year

Welsh choir

I was  booked on Ruth Browns workshop but sadly  she was unable to come due to ill health so i spent a lovely afternoon withAnn Gosling who is the treasurer of the guild ' Quilting the Welsh Way ' 

The evening was finished off listening to a beautiful Welsh choir with a glass of wine . 

Quilt AGM , Llandudno

Finally arrived at Llandudno for the Quilt AGM and now being entertained by Maggie Relph

Self indulgence

I have just come back from travelling with my friend Gillian we went to the Czech Republic Slovakia and Austria, I will post some pictures when I have sorted them out but I took 100's as usual so it will take me a bit of time !!! 

On return I spent a bit of quality time with Ian and we went to the good food show in Harrogate . It was a real self indulgent day taking me away completely from sewing and textiles lots of foodie samples to try including gin samples !! Now I must get down to some sewing , my next travelling journal should be on its way 

happy Easter

I have been making these little hats for Easter. The grand kids love them but poor old hubby is thinking that the men in white coats might be coming to collect me soon !!! Happy Easter xx

Shibori

I have been trying out the unpredictable art of Shibori again , its getting a little better and the coverage is more even . There are still some to untie but i have run out of space on the dyeing clothes line. I darn't use the other line other wise the men in my life may get more stripes on their shirts than expected !!! I still have some more in the bucket ready to hang but  I have come to the conclusion this is a summer job !!! My hands are freezing . Hope the indigo takes ok as usually it loves the sunshine 

Thread catcher with a sunflower pin cushion

The sea can be so beautiful at night :)

A day at CAstle Textile Group

Fun times....

Helping each other

Lots of tuition....

Even more coffee

Down to some work 

Exhibition. 2015

Here are some photos of the exhibition , hopefully some of the students husbands may send me some of the photos of the presentation that the Mayor gave to the 4th years for completing their city and guilds Dlploma , it is always such a full on busy evening to be enjoyed

All steaming up

Getting ready for the exhibition , full of promises . 

Students end of year exhibition . Spofforth, Mr Wetherby

Everyone has worked so hard this year it should be an amazing exhibition 

All the  work finished and ready to go ............