Pat Barrett Workshop

What a great day we had at the April workshop with Pat Barrett, she demonstrated the darn stitch she uses to create her beautiful work and had brought with her some inspiring pieces of work, books and souvenirs from her travels for us to get inspiration from and also a wonderful stash of threads, ribbons and yarns for us to use.  This is a really simple stitch and through using varying thicknesses of threads wonderful textured pieces were produced, all very different and original.

Young Embroiderers March Meeting

This workshop was tutored by Mrs. Quayle, it involved working with shears to create a piece on which to hand stitch.  The inspiration was taken from one of her beautiful pieces she exhibited recently at the Hodgson Loom Gallery.

There wasn't sufficient time to finish stitching them during the workshop, but the 1st picture shows one that has been completed.

Kansashi Flowers

Thanks to Helen for tutoring the Kansashi flowers workshop in February.  As you can see this produced some beautiful results.

The workshop was attended by Christine Poole (EG Chairman) and her husband Dave and everyone appreciated her attending and taking time to talk to us all. This picture shows the workshop attendees and the Laxey Wheel group project which resulted from a workshop led by Sian Martin.

Christine and Dave also joined us on the Sunday afternoon at our exhibition and we felt highly honoured that she spend so much time with us.
Dave also kindly gave us some photographs that he'd taken of the exhibition (see below).
Other photos include the exhibition at the Tynwald Library location.

25 Years in Stitches

Our exhibition celebrating 25 years of the IOM Branch of the Embroiderers Guild is now taking place at The Isle Gallery, Tynwald Mills, St. Johns until 28th February.  Below are photographs of just a few of the exhibits.  The gallery will be open Wednesday - Saturday, 1pm-5pm and Sunday 2pm-5pm so please go along and take a look.  If you go on a Sunday afternoon there will be an opportunity to contribute to the 'Worlds Longest Embroidery'  you can also take along a piece of your own work and join other members for a stitching session.

Peg Loom Weaving

There was an excellent turn out for our branch meeting on 31st January which was followed by a workshop on peg loom weaving by Lorraine Cleasby.  Lorraine brought along her looms, materials and lots of enthusiasm and everyone produced at least one finished piece on the day.

Christmas Party

We have to thank Sheila for providing the inspiration and kits to make up these Christmas Decorations, a very sociable and enjoyable evening was spent with members old and new.

Young Embroiderers

The Young Embroiderers had a Christmas theme for their December meeting and made these wonderful Christmas tree, angel  and reindeer decorations with Mrs. Burgess.