Change to the talk this Friday, 3rd July

Unfortunately, Kathleen Laurel Sage cannot be with us this week-end as planned, owing to an accident.  Kathleen has injured her knee, and we send her our best wishes for a good recovery.

We are indebted to Leamington member, Ann Rogers, for stepping in at this short notice to give us the second part of her very popular talk on the bags she has made for some of the female characters in Shakespeare's plays.

Part Two: Shakespeare's Women with Attitude  

deals with heroines who are 'naughty' to downright evil, as well as the characters who are victims. Ann gave us the first part of this enchanting talk, Bags for Shakespeare's Heroines, in November last year, when we got the chance to see some of the bags close to, and we've been eagerly awaiting the sequel.

Ann has not attempted to make her bags historically accurate in style, but has used her imagination to  illustrate the heroines' characters through the bags.

We're looking forward to an extremely entertaining evening, and welcome visitors and friends who would like to join us.    The talk starts at 7 pm on Friday 3rd July at St Mary's Hall, St Mary's Road, Leamington Spa CV31 1JW (Visitors: £5 on the door).

"Extrav-Organza", Talk by Kathleen Laurel Sage

Kathleen Laurel Sage is a freelance textile artist, designer and enthusiastic embroiderer. Her inspirations are captured from carvings and ornate plaster work depicting patterns from nature and from the natural environment around her. Kathleen's fascination for working with organza fabrics has produced work ranging from conventional items through relief to exciting three-dimensional embroidered structures, such as floral vases, fashion accessories and unique jewellery.

In this friendly and relaxed talk, Kathleen outlines her transition from hand-worked embroidery in the form of stump work to machine-embroidered organza. She explains how she works and combines these techniques into dimensional and structural artworks.

Visitors are very welcome to come along to this talk on Friday 3rd July, which starts at 7.00 pm. We meet at St Mary's Church Hall, St Mary's Road, Leamington Spa - there is a map on our How to find us page.  Visitor charge: £5.00

There are also a couple of places available on the follow-up workshop on Saturday 4th July, in which we will make either small bead-like elements to form unique jewellery, or work a panel on a larger scale. If you are interested in this, please contact Jenny:
jennyarcher401@gmail.com. 

Junior Embroiderers' wedding bunting

We are just sharing pictures of the lovely bunting made by two of our Junior Embroiderers, Evie (11) and her sister Milly (8), for their Aunty's autumn-themed wedding.  The bunting was much admired by the family and other guests.