We had a great turnout for our first meeting of 2026, 19 in attendance in the room with another 15 joining on online to hear our guest speaker, Vanessa Marr, talk about the Domestic Dusters Project. We hope some of our members will join in with this project stitching their own dusters. Dusters and red […]
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Our last meeting of 2025 began with a beautifully presented and delicious buffet provided by local social enterprise Giraffe . Members enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with each other and a visit from a special guest in red who distributed the Secret Santa gifts. Committee member Jill Simpson then led us in the activity,
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We had another busy meeting in November with 30 members joining us at Oakbank for a very informative and inspiring day. Our chair Ali Currie gave an informal demonstration of the traditional approach to silk shading techniques using long and short stitch. This was followed by Lucy Freeman’s talk ‘Painting with Thread’ . Lucy shared
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Celia Joicey, Dovecot Studios Director started the Stitch Colour Cloth 2025-2026 season with a talk about their current IKEA Museum’s Magical Pattern exhibition. It was a fascinating subject and Celia also shared the process and challenges of curating such an exhibition . The Magical Patterns exhibition explores six decades of textile design by IKEA and
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