Saturday 10/12/11 :: #Shewin'n'Bletherin

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It's our penultimate Shewin n Bletherin meeting for 2011 and I'm looking forward to getting out the mad weathers and crowds for some quality seeing time.

I'm going to be turning these scraps of material into cute cards. What are you going to bring?

Come along for some stitching & knitting???

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After a short break we're back and ready to get back stitching at Make It Glasgow this Saturday from 11am.

Why not take some time out from Christmas shopping and sew for an hour or two? I'm going to turn this wee bundle I got in the PDSA shop into a cross stitch card of Puffins.

And I believe Ashley from MIG is going to join us and start the Sarah Lund jumper Radio Times kindly supplied the pattern for (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Make-It-Glasgow/135204339846285?ref=ts).

Hope to see you there.

A finished project

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We had another fun morning shewin n bletherin today and I FINALLY finished the wee Hello Kitty cross stitch I'd started a few weeks ago.

I won't be there next Saturday (5th November) as I'm off on my travels but don't let that stop you popping in with your stitching project & say hello to Ashley.

More Shewin n Bletherin this Saturday

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Almost forgot to let you know that we had a lovely time last Saturday bletherin while some cross stitching went on.

A few folk came in after 1.30pm and I hope they'll be able to join us tomorrow from 11am.

Think I'll be bringing Hello Kitty & hopefully finish it.

Saturday 8 October 2011

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Right! Im back at Shewin n Bletherin tomorrow morning. No marching for me this week but have a lot of sewing instead.

Not sure if I'll be doing embroidery this week or hand stitching some phone cases...you'll just have to coming along and see.

I heard that last week someone came along who hand makes toys. Hope she pops back tomorrow as I'd love to see her work.

Hope you can make it too.

Shewin this Saturday

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I won't be at Make It Glasgow this Saturday for Shewin n Bletherin as will be on the October 1st People First march & rally.

However don't let that stop you popping in for a cuppa with your hand stitching project.

Normal service will resume next Saturday.

Thank you

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A big thank you to everyone who came to the very first Shewin n Bletherin at Make It Glasgow on Saturday.

With the added attraction of Helen and Gil from the Royal School of Needlework - their work has to be seen to be believed it's amazing! We had a steady stream of people in from 10am and they had travelled from Edinburgh, Newton Stewart, Glasgow and even Skye!

There was a wee bit of Shewin going on but mostly it was blethering.

Next week: I'm going to be finishing off the silk shading piece I will have started on the RSN day class the day before. http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/content/1113

What piece will you bring to work on?

So what is Shewin n Blethering?

Shewing is the old Scots word for sewing or needlework while to blether is Scots for chatting. Put them together and you get a bunch of people all hand sewing their own projects together over a cup of tea or coffee. Or to put it another way shewin n bletherin.

Our first meet up will be on Saturday 17th September at 10am and we will be based at Make It Glasgow, 3 Osborne Street, Glasgow. Normally we will meet at 11am but this is a special morning and you can read more about it here: http://craftyfrayededges.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/are-you-ready-for-shewin-n-bletherin.

We will be a very inclusive group so whether you're embroider, quilt, make lace or are hand sewing an outfit come along. It would be lovely to see you every Saturday but if you can only make it one or twice a month that's cool.

Count down to our first meeting

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The flyer for the Shewin n Bletherin hand stitchers group is now ready to go to the printers.

Here is a sneak preview & watch out for more announcements this week...