Exhibition at Chequer Mead
This was the exhibition showing all the 77 UK entries completed to support a self-help embroidery project in Afghanistan. Ann printed details about the challenge in our Feb 2009 Newsletter and then the UK coordinator Meike Laurenson came to our 2009 AGM in person to encourage participation. The NEG can take pride [...]
You may have run up some loose covers, but have you ever knitted a throne? That is what I was asked to do in early January 2010. I had recently started working on a part-time freelance basis for an organisation called Stitches in Time (www.stitchesintime.org.uk). They are based in the old Limehouse Town Hall Building [...]
February 19, 2010 – 7:08 pm
Our Christmas Party at the beginning of December now seems a million miles away but the memory of members renewing friendships and enjoying the lecture on Victorian and Edwardian ecclesiastical embroidery by the scholarly Mary Schoeser, is still fresh in my mind. In the face of declining church membership in Britain, the subject could seem [...]
February 19, 2010 – 7:02 pm
Last night Bill and I went to the National Theatre and in the Olivier foyer is a delightful exhibition called Stranded by a women called Lalla Ward. I haven’t heard of her, but other members may know of her. Her work is free machine embroidery and I found it quite impressive.
She is married to [...]
February 19, 2010 – 6:59 pm
Our instructions were to meet at 11.50am having previously locked away our bags, coats etc. and carrying notebooks and pencils only plus purses and mobile phones in a transparent plastic bag, provided free. Also well-washed hands. Apparently, white gloves can do more damage to the book bindings than washed hands.
We met Karen Limper-Herz, curator, British [...]
February 19, 2010 – 6:58 pm
The advantage of a “Friend of………………” card is that you can call in more than once to see exhibitions and view them therefore without time pressure. I write this the day after a delightful first viewing of the newly opened Royal Academy exhibition The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters. On my return, [...]
February 19, 2010 – 6:36 pm
Mary Shoeser is an erudite speaker and sets about her subject in a concise authoritative manner. She started with reasons for the revival of ecclesiastical embroidery after a 300 year gap. Briefly, the Reformation was opposed to most church ornament so vestments were used but not replaced and by the C19th most were in tatters. [...]
December 9, 2009 – 7:02 pm
When I learnt that John Allen had been asked to run a ‘design workshop’ in Puglia, Italy during September – it sounded just what I needed.
Flights were booked – a 7.30am flight from LHR via Rome to Bari on the east coast of Italy, somewhere just above the heel. A couple of weeks before departure, [...]
September 9, 2009 – 9:33 am
Dear Members
Our annual Garden Party event in Dulwich held
on 19th June was well attended and greatly enjoyed by members and friends of the group including John Allen and Jon Crane. It was particularly good to see Mary Anderson and Barbara Jeremiah who had travelled some distance to be with us. Once again, our sincere [...]
September 9, 2009 – 9:28 am
‘The ultimate accessory’
When travelling to our garden party I passed through Waterloo Station where I was amazed and delighted to see the ladies on their way to Ascot wearing colourful dresses and a wide range of frivolous hats. Of course, the men sported grey or black ‘toppers’.
This reminded me of my visit to Hats: An [...]