Welcome to the Association of Northern Stitch Groups

 

The AGM for 2024 will be held at Bowburn

on April 27th 2024.

Doors open at 12.45, the meeting will start at 1.45.

Please bring your own mug.

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Our speaker is, Elnaz Yazdani, and we look forward to her visit. Her talk is entitled

Redefing Embroidery: Embellish, Connect & Transform.

Elnaz is dedicated to sharing her textile skills and promoting the importance

of embroidery as an art form for the future and for community wellbeing.

 

Elnaz has taught embroidery throughout her community, within primary, secondary

and higher education as well as community groups and organisations.  

Her practice explores ways of transforming traditional embroidery techniques through

her choice of unusual materials; she is inspired by industrial, upcycled materials

and the ways in which she can embellish, connect or transform these items through stitch

to develop a surface or form. Her unique embroidery style has allowed

her to work across fashion, jewellery and installation contexts since

graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2014.

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 As usual there will be a raffle, refreshments and the fundraiser will be stitched gift

bags – requests for these have been made to all the stitch groups.

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Our next workshop is goldwork with Heather Lewis, to be held at Bowburn on Saturday 28th September.

There will be two kits to choose from.

Watch this space for further information of how and when to apply.

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The Association Afternoon 2023

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The ANSG Association Afternoon held on October 28th at Bowburn Community Centre was greatly

enjoyed by members of all the stitch groups. The talks included a slide show of a recent

exhibition of stitched textiles by members of Random Stitchers of Cleveland, the challenges

of putting on a display of work in a 950 year old World Heritage Site and the

development of a series of in-house workshops relating to stumpwork.

It was interesting to hear how the affiliated stitch groups had developed new projects

since becoming independent, and the ten tables of work on display

were very inspirational.

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The competition ‘Space’ was won by Heather Waring, a member of both Random Stitchers of Cleveland and Richmond and Leyburn Creative Stitch groups. Congratulations to all those who entered the competition.

The photo above is the winner! Top left, below, is Heather receiving her award and prize money,

from our Chair, Pauline, along with the winning embroidery.

As always the refreshments were most enjoyable and included delicious homemade cake!

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The remaining photos show some of the tables of work brought along by some of the groups.

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