Cost: SCCS Programme:
PROGRAMME - from September 2025
The Meetings (usually on the first Thursday of each month)
Thursday 4th September 7.30pm Meet the member presentation followed by sharing our summer project.
Thursday 2nd October 7.30pm Tina Francis discusses her creative life and holds a workshop demonstrating making a mini bargello booklet. All materials will be supplied.
Thursday 6th November 7.30pm Drop spindling. Penny Dixon will be demonstrating how to take merino wool and use a drop spindle to create yarn. We will then each have a drop spindle to create our own yarn. All materials will be supplied.
Thursday 4th December 7.30pm Festive bird workshop with Jessica Grady. Jessica will be demonstrating via Zoom to the Trinity Centre. She is a skilled textile artist and you can see some examples of her work on Instagram by searching for @jessicagradyembroidery or on her website www.jessicagrady.co.uk. She has a passion for colour and texture and likes to use unusual materials. Each member will receive a kit, specially prepared for the workshop by Jessica but please bring a basic sewing kit with scissors, some pins and any threads and embellishments you may want to use.
As a change to our usual January and February online Zoom meetings, we will be holding in person sessions at the Trinity Centre on Saturday 10th January and 7th February. On both days the sessions will run from 10am to 4pm. However there is flexibility in that you do not have to stay for the whole day. If you wish, you can drop in for an hour or two at any time during the day. The January meeting will take place in our usual room. Whilst the February meeting will be held downstairs in the Longmynd room, where we will be able to do some mixed media activities and explore ideas of how to take an idea and turn it into a piece of stitched textile art. The idea of the two days is to get together, work off the post- Christmas blues and have some creative fun. You can bring along some hand stitching, or if preferred your sewing machine. You may like to bring something you’re already working on or perhaps start something new or maybe dig out one of those UFO’s you’ve got stashed away. The committee team will be on hand to offer advice, encouragement and share their expertise. We want these sessions to be relaxed and enjoyable with no pressure, so if you fancy a break please come and join us.
Saturday 10th January: 10am to 4pm in the usual room
Saturday 7th February: 10am to 4pm in the Longmynd room.
In person evening meetings from 7:30pm on:
Thursday 5th March 2025
Thursday 2nd April 2025
Thursday 7th May 2025
March, April and May meetings will see the return of the hugely talented textile artist Helen Lane. She will be introducing us to Indian embroidery techniques through a series of mini workshops. Judging from the success of her last visits to SCCS, where she introduced us to Japanese textiles, this new offering is not to be missed. The plan is to include three techniques including shisha mirrors to construct a bushkiri bag.
Thursday 4th June at 7:30pm: Meet the member and show and tell.
The final meeting of the year will be the AGM on Thursday 3rd July at 7:30pm where we will introduce the summer project.
WORKSHOPS
It was agreed at the EGM in 2023 that workshops will now be arranged when sufficient interest in a subject matter is expressed. We are however in the fortunate position as a longstanding group that the workshop room rental will not be subject to increase - but it is a case of ‘use it or lose it’ and it would be a pity not to continue with workshops.
Our most recent, fascinating and remarkably good-value for money workshops included - Batik printing - which was well attended and very successful. Photographs are available on Instagram and our Facebook page.
PROGRAMME - from September 2025
The Meetings (usually on the first Thursday of each month)
Thursday 4th September 7.30pm Meet the member presentation followed by sharing our summer project.
Thursday 2nd October 7.30pm Tina Francis discusses her creative life and holds a workshop demonstrating making a mini bargello booklet. All materials will be supplied.
Thursday 6th November 7.30pm Drop spindling. Penny Dixon will be demonstrating how to take merino wool and use a drop spindle to create yarn. We will then each have a drop spindle to create our own yarn. All materials will be supplied.
Thursday 4th December 7.30pm Festive bird workshop with Jessica Grady. Jessica will be demonstrating via Zoom to the Trinity Centre. She is a skilled textile artist and you can see some examples of her work on Instagram by searching for @jessicagradyembroidery or on her website www.jessicagrady.co.uk. She has a passion for colour and texture and likes to use unusual materials. Each member will receive a kit, specially prepared for the workshop by Jessica but please bring a basic sewing kit with scissors, some pins and any threads and embellishments you may want to use.
As a change to our usual January and February online Zoom meetings, we will be holding in person sessions at the Trinity Centre on Saturday 10th January and 7th February. On both days the sessions will run from 10am to 4pm. However there is flexibility in that you do not have to stay for the whole day. If you wish, you can drop in for an hour or two at any time during the day. The January meeting will take place in our usual room. Whilst the February meeting will be held downstairs in the Longmynd room, where we will be able to do some mixed media activities and explore ideas of how to take an idea and turn it into a piece of stitched textile art. The idea of the two days is to get together, work off the post- Christmas blues and have some creative fun. You can bring along some hand stitching, or if preferred your sewing machine. You may like to bring something you’re already working on or perhaps start something new or maybe dig out one of those UFO’s you’ve got stashed away. The committee team will be on hand to offer advice, encouragement and share their expertise. We want these sessions to be relaxed and enjoyable with no pressure, so if you fancy a break please come and join us.
Saturday 10th January: 10am to 4pm in the usual room
Saturday 7th February: 10am to 4pm in the Longmynd room.
In person evening meetings from 7:30pm on:
Thursday 5th March 2025
Thursday 2nd April 2025
Thursday 7th May 2025
March, April and May meetings will see the return of the hugely talented textile artist Helen Lane. She will be introducing us to Indian embroidery techniques through a series of mini workshops. Judging from the success of her last visits to SCCS, where she introduced us to Japanese textiles, this new offering is not to be missed. The plan is to include three techniques including shisha mirrors to construct a bushkiri bag.
Thursday 4th June at 7:30pm: Meet the member and show and tell.
The final meeting of the year will be the AGM on Thursday 3rd July at 7:30pm where we will introduce the summer project.
WORKSHOPS
It was agreed at the EGM in 2023 that workshops will now be arranged when sufficient interest in a subject matter is expressed. We are however in the fortunate position as a longstanding group that the workshop room rental will not be subject to increase - but it is a case of ‘use it or lose it’ and it would be a pity not to continue with workshops.
Our most recent, fascinating and remarkably good-value for money workshops included - Batik printing - which was well attended and very successful. Photographs are available on Instagram and our Facebook page.
