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Monday, 13 June 2016

JETS meet at Charlecote


Leamington has a thriving JETS (Junior Embroiderers and Textile Students) group and Sally, one of the leaders, describes here their outing to Charlecote Park. The JETS' work is on display in the summerhouse not far from the Capability Brown exhibition in the Orangery restaurant.

Sally writes:
Instead of meeting on our usual Saturday at St Mary’s Church Centre we met this month at Charlecote Park as part of the CB300 celebrations. We had the ‘privilege’ of being able to use the summerhouse where the JETS fish are being displayed. I say ‘privilege’ because normally the summerhouse is not open to the public and it was a bit of a dubious ‘privilege’ because we had to rely on natural light, which mainly came from the open door on a dull, wet day. We, of course rose to the challenge and the girls stitched. It made us think how girls used to stitch in poor light with only candlelight once dusk fell.

Firstly, we took a brief walk admiring the beautiful flowers in the garden to the open countryside to see a herd of young deer including an albino deer, and in the distance we could see swans on the lake.
Returning to the summer house the girls started to stitch deer and flowers.  These will be finished either at home or during the July meeting – we look forward to seeing them.

We were all thrilled to see the fish displayed and hope that many Charlecote visitors have enjoyed seeing them.
Sally Pinfold

Here are some photos taken at Charlecote:

JETS Fish display, photo Dick Prior
JETS Fish Display

Panel inside summerhouse, Sally Pinfold
Panels inside the summerhouse
Panel inside summerhouse, Sally Pinfold


Stained glass panels in summerhouse, Sally Pinfold
Stained glass panels in the summerhouse
Stained glass panels in summerhouse, Sally Pinfold


Stained glass panels in summerhouse, Sally Pinfold

Stained glass panels in summerhouse, Sally Pinfold

Looking out from the summerhouse, Sally Pinfold
Looking out to the garden from the summerhouse

The fish from inside the summerhouse, Sally Pinfold
The fish from inside the summerhouse

Beautiful flowers, Sally Pinfold
Charlecote has such beautiful flowers ...

Deer in the landscape, Sally Pinfold
... and landscapes

Looking into the summerhouse, Sally Pinfold
Looking into the summerhouse

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