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COMPETITION WINNER
By Royal Appointment
We have a Winner - Congratulations - Susan MacKail
We would like to thank all those who entered into the competition
Archive
Members' Challenge 2020: Bird
Congratulations go to Dorothy Luke and Susan Hammond, two winners of our Bird Challenge.
The challenge was judged by textile artist Richard McVetis who said “So good to see so many entries and isn’t it good to have embroidery to keep you sane in these crazy times. All of them were really great”
Dorothy Luke’s entry: Bird of a feather flock together
“This is a well-known English saying that raises many questions.. Is it a good thing to partner only with people who are like us?… And what does ‘ like us’ mean? What does it refer to? Clothes, social backgrounds, skin colours, values?…”
Sue Hammond’s entry: Tropical Toucan
“It’s from A Year Of Embroidery by Yumiko Higuchi.
I chose it because I’m new to embroidery and chain stitch is my current favourite stitch!”
We were delighted that 19 members took up the challenge and submitted 24 entries in total.
Branch Summer Challenge 2019
We were delighted that Stitchery Do, our local stitching and knitting business kindly sponsored our branch challenge in 2019. The theme of the challenge was ‘Reuse, recycle and up cycling’. This resulted in a very wide range of interpretations.
All thirteen entries to our challenge were displayed in the Stitchery Do shop in Wokingham.
Congratulations to our winners Jo Hetherington, Carol Hegarty and Sue Newport.
A STITCH IN TIME Exhibition during May and June 2019 in Wokingham Library
A Stitch in Time exhibition at Wokingham Library featured a wide range of embroidery including both hand and machine embroidered textile art. The exhibition was well attended and several people contacted the branch to purchase exhibits.
We have been asked to stage another exhibition at the end of 2020.
