We caught up with a general meeting where we shared patterns to knit and sew to aid the animal fire relief in Australia. Teams also gathered for a spin, ply and knit challenge set for March. Then Jane squirrelled her workshop members away to a woolly woodland to needle-felt mushrooms in all shapes and sizes.
December 2019
Saturday 14th was our very festive Show and Tell with members bringing their work to discuss and share techniques.
November 2019
Saturday 9th November was our Annual Gathering. Here’s a rundown of what went on:
- Busy Mrs B Pottery – Gene’s daughter Sarah brought her beautiful hand crafted pottery
- Crazy Daisy Crafts from Lockerbie with yarn, knitting supplies and general haberdashery
- Fiona Moir – Guild Member – with hand dyed spinning fibre, hand dyed yarns, hand dyed threads and fabric and finished items
- Gene Howe – Guild Member – hand and machine knitted items
- Happy Knitter Yarns from Dumfries with yarns and general haberdashery supplies
- Jane Rutherford – Guild Member – fleeces and needle felted items
- Liz Booth – Guild Member – hand crafted semi precious stone jewellery and felted items
- Low Auldgirth Steading – Ruth brought a selection of lovely fleeces
- Roz Plant – Guild Member – with Guild Member – hand dyed spinning fibre, hand dyed yarns and batik finished items
- Solway Woolscapes – Guild Member – needle felted pictures and cards, needle felting kits and kits for various crafts
- Sue MacNiven – Guild Member – hand crafted buttons, hand spun yarns and finished items
- The Threshing Barn from Reeth, Yorkshire Dales, with spinning, weaving equipment, sinning fibre, yarns,dyes etc.
We also displayed our members’ exhibition with the theme of Ethnicity which, from a textile perspective, provided an exciting creative challenge:
July 2019
Carole led a very busy session on yarn hooking, providing all of the equipment required, including a nifty lap frame. Members chose their favourite designs and got going straight away to create their pieces. Carole is also one of the 5 organisers of Yarndale – the woolly festival of creativity in Skipton in September.
Triennial Exhibition 2018
The 2018 exhibition at Gracefield was a great success and Ronnie Galloway has kindly given us permission to use his photographs here.
14th April 2018
As this was the opening day of the Triennial exhibition, Anne held a “Corners” day at St Theresa’s.
11th November 2017
Our November meeting had a very industrious workshop where participants had a go at making a felted vessel, even two. Using resists, they made shapes which could be manipulated to suit their individual tastes. Lots of colour and texture were available to make a host of unique, one-of-a-kind vessels.
D&G Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers 