• Practical meeting

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Group leader, Janet Edmonds will lead a workshop demonstrating the many forms of Chain Stitch. Members will stitch a small sample.

  • (No Meeting)

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Summer break. No meeting this month.

  • Bucks Lace Makers

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Talk and demonstration

  • Machine Embroidery

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Machine embroidery - demonstrations and samples.

  • Crazy Patchwork

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Crazy patchwork.

  • Opus Anglicanum

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Opus Angicanum There will be a presentation on the subject of Opus Anglicanum, meaning ‘English Work’. This was the height of ecclesiastical embroidery using gold threads and fine silk embroidery during the Medieval period. We will look at exquisite examples of vestments, methods of stitchery and designs via the means of a power point presentation […]

  • Church Vestments

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    Church vestments - a talk by Sally Prendergast.

  • Textiles

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    We will take a look at ‘Kantha’ stitching. This is a technique from India, where poverty has led to the development of a sophisticated method of layering up worn fabrics to create a new textile. Layers of dhotis or saris are sewn together with a white thread using a running stitch. Motifs are outlined with […]

  • Textiles – CANCELLED

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    There will be a continuation of the exploration of Kantha technique. I will give a presentation of Embroidery from India including Kantha. India has a wide range of different styles of embroidery from Kantha to Chikan, printing and piecing. Kashmir and Kasuti.

  • Textiles

    Community Centre Cherry Baker Room Wades Park / Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, United Kingdom

    We'll be looking at some useful but less common stitches and how they may be used and combined. Please bring a sewing kit, a few threads and piece of fabric to stitch on. You may want to back your piece of fabric with a piece of fine cotton or some interfacing to give a firmer […]