Sun shines for the presentation of Feltmakers North Community Outreach Project 

What a great morning we had last Saturday at Hillsborough Village Centre when we were able to hand over the completed felted pieces to the representatives of Brookfield School Sinead, Jenny and Liz.

While having to observe the very strict Covid regulations, we managed to fit in a few faces from the Guild to be present at the end of this project.  It marks the completion of our 10th anniversary celebrations, albeit a little prolonged.  

 

Images of some of the completed blankets and little individual bits and pieces designed specially to help the children with their concentration  

These little squares are examples of the pieces which were sewn together to form the blankets again designed to bring comfort and aid concentration in class.

We had a great morning chatting about the project and using the opportunity to catch up a little with our first face to face meeting since September 2020.  Of course we definitely can't meet without a cuppa and guess what . . . . . 

Delicious biscuits which Deirdre organised as a special treat for a special day!

The completed items were all packed into a massive bag for the school to keep and finished off with a super label made by the very talented Mandy

The presentation was a lovely way to finish off our felting year and to give ourselves a big pat on the back for having managed to do what we set out to do more than eighteen months ago.  I have included lots of pics below to give you an idea of the work which our members readily engaged in and who deserve a massive big thank you!!

We very much hope to welcome everyone, new faces included, to the September Felt-in on Saturday18th at 10.00 o'clock in the Hillsborough Village Centre.  Get the date in your diary now and look forward to what Deirdre and the team have in store!!

 

MAY  RINGS THE CHANGES!!

This lovely image is from our very own Jayne who created the Mackintosh inspired rose during our online workshop with the super Nikki Collier.

More of this later but first to the business part of our 11th AGM held in early May.

Gail, Ann and Mary stepped down as office bearers having served for a minimum of two years.  Ann and Gail will remain on the committee to support the newly elected girls for this coming year.  Both Sarah and Sharon have also stepped down and our thanks go to everyone for their hard work and commitment to Feltmakers North.

The Guild's new chairperson is the very talented Deirdre Gallagher who has been a member for a good many years and we are looking forward to Deirdre taking us to even greater things!  Mandy has taken the role of secretary and Sandy will be our new treasurer.  Dympna has also joined the committee this year.  It's so good to see so many talented and creative members of the Guild on the committee.  2021/22 will no doubt be a year to remember!

Once the business got sorted we had a little coffee break and then got stuck in to a special treat for members with our very first online workshop.  This was led by Nikki Collier and she shared her stained glass effect technique with us.  It was a very relaxed and enjoyable session with Nikki gently bringing us through the various stages of her technique and members just loved being able to create a little piece during the two hour workshop.

Elaine's creation

These colourful feathers were one of the ideas from Nikki and offered lots of opportunity for adding colour and pattern.

Ann thoroughly enjoyed making this 

Pleasaunce loved the technique!

I'm sure we'll see lots of variations over the coming months as we begin to experiment a little.  Our thanks to Nikki for such a gentle introduction to online workshops and for sharing her skills with us so generously.