Our group has welcomed many of the former MEG members and we also look forward to welcoming new members from all walks of life with an interest in any type of stitchery or a desire to learn all about what we do. Whatever your textile and stitch craft interests are, or levels of ability, the varied programme and opportunities offer something for everyone. Read more some About Us here. Or Membership Registration here.
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Saturday 23rd November 2024
The October meeting began with our Annual General Meeting, where our elected officers were voted in to serve for another year. Following the AGM, Polly Moseley from The Scouse Flower House showed the large, and mostly completed, “Let it Bee” banner for which some of our members contributed stitched bees. We then enjoyed a delicious and plentiful shared lunch. The day finished with a presentation by former long-standing member, Sarah Lowes, who regaled us with a talk entitled, “My Needlework Journey: from loathing it to loving it”, complete with many items of stitch work of significance to her. She explained that as a youth she was encouraged to try various sewing projects, all of which seemed to end in disaster, including a smock for which she used thick stiff furnishing fabric; hence, she loathed it. Her love of stitch started and grew as the result of a friendship with a person passionate about the art. Sarah showed some pieces that she had designed and stitched, most of which were complete except for framing or doing something with them; many of us could relate to this. One of the pieces is a representation of the deuterium atom and its subatomic parts including forces and tracks. A nuclear physics lesson accompanied this showing and reflected Sarah’s hobby of reading nuclear physics. Sarah is a relaxed and entertaining speaker who told her story with passion and great connection with her audience. Sarah is a former teacher, a published author and has written and performed several one-woman shows. She left the group a few years ago when she moved to Yorkshire, where she now resides with her husband.
AGM and Shared Lunch with Talk by Sarah Lowes, October 2024
At our September meeting we saw the launch of our exciting new group project, which will be to embroider a new altar frontal for the 150th Anniversary of All Hallows Church. The altar frontal has been designed by Gill Roberts and it is a depiction of the church and the surrounding area. The design consists of individual motifs to be embroidered by members and the appliquéd to the background, and there are enough motifs for each member to have one to work on. We cannot show a photograph of the design yet as it has yet to be unveiled to the parishioners of All Hallows Church, but it is stunning! If you were unable to come along to the September meeting, then please attend our AGM in October and collect a pack with details of a motif for you to embroider.
The dates for 2025 meetings have been announced (click here to view)
Kim Parkman, our Joint Chair, held a workshop in July which saw us bringing lots of colourful scraps of fabric which hold special meaning for us. We spent an enjoyable morning constructing log cabin patches.
students work from “Scraps With Meaning” Workshop with Kim Parkman, July 2024
sample by Dilys Parry
sample by Pauline Lythgoe
bag with Log cabin patchwork by Patti Owen 2024
Pauline Lythgoe has enjoyed creating Dorset buttons following Miranda Farby’s workshop in February.
Dorset buttons by Pauline Lythgoe
Our April Workshop was led by the ever-popular tutor Gill Roberts. We began to create “Wrapped and Stitched Trees” under her expert guidance and had a very enjoyable day. You can see some photos of the day here…
Gill Roberts is our tutor today for “Wrapped and Stitched Trees” Workshop, April 2024
MEsG Christmas Party 2023
Early in December we held our Winter Party in All Hallows Centre. Just click here to see more photographs of the day.
It was good to see that so many members braved the weather to attend our Winter Social on Saturday. Although a shorter time than we usually have, it was enough to get together for a good chat, some Christmas food and a browse of the stalls and competitions. Our stitch competition produced a good number of pieces of work, all of them of such a high standard that voting was difficult. Congratulations to Eileen Sampson for her excellent example of blackwork, on winning the competition. We would like to thank not only our attendees but those who did so much behind the scenes to make it a success. Thank you to all of you for helping to make the jolly atmosphere on a wild and windy day. Please do keep an eye on our website for updates on the programme for next year. We look forward to meeting up in January and would like to wish you all a good Christmas break and best wishes for 2024. Kim and Michele.
At last we can see the completed banners for Merseyside Expressive Stitchers’ group. Many thanks go to all members who embroidered the beautiful squares, and thanks to those members who spent hours assembling the banners and doing the final stitching towards completion. We are very happy with the final result.
Sunday 30th July 2023 was World Embroidery Day
Pauline and Michele, World Embroidery Day 2023
.Some of our committee are taking advantage of the sunshine with a coffee morning at Liverpool Cathedral. It was glorious!
Some of our committee having a social distanced gathering at the Cathedral, May 2021
There is a lovely write-up about NW Regional Day 2021 in the April edition of CONTACT. Read all about it here! https://www.megonline.co.uk/nw-regional-day-write-up/
North West Regional Day 2021
Saturday 24th April 2021.
Our first ever Virtual North West Regional Day was a triumph! We had 112 people registered and 103 attendees on the day, which was enjoyed by all. Our Speakers – Linda Miller, the acclaimed Machine Embroidery artist, and Michele Carragher, Principal Costume Embroiderer for Game of Thrones were magnificent. They both shared their work and were a great inspiration to us all. The Rose Bowl and Aurifil competition entries were up to the usual high standard and the winners were announced at the close of the day. The Rose Bowl was won by Sandra Kendal from North Lonsdale branch with PSYCHEDELIC LOVE and the Aurifil Award for Excellence was won by Diane Moore from Merseyside branch with A GLIMPSE OF VENICE. Congratulations to all the winners! Have a look at all the comments and reactions, also the Raffle Prize winners here https://www.megonline.co.uk/nw-regional-day-2021/
1st Prize Winner, PSYCHEDELIC LOVE by Sandra Kendal, North Lonsdale branch, computer printed photos with machine stitch and appliqué, Rose Bowl competition 2021
1st Prize Winner, A GLIMPSE OF VENICE by Diane Moore, Merseyside branch, painted pieced surface, worked by machine and some hand stitching, Aurifil Competition 2021
