Our Recent Talks & Activities
Click on the underlined titles to read about the talks.
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For earlier talks, visit our Archive.​
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Workshop: Christine Green - Boro Inspirations
Sunday 18 April 2025
Eight members and five visitors joined Christine Green for a day of relaxed stitching, focusing on the Japanese style of boro patchwork and recycling of materials. After an inspiring tour through the style of boro and similar methods such as Indian kawandi quilting, Christine invited us to dive in and start stitching. She brought a pile of old fabrics - many being men's shirts collected at bargain prices from charity shops - which we were welcome to use in our piece of work, and taught us how to "take our needle for a walk", working randomly around the fabric. Christine's ethos is that there are no rules, which was liberating, and made for a fun and relaxing day's stitching.
https://christinegreencrafts.co.uk/
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Trish Zachariah - Sewing Nature with Thread
Monday 12 May2025
Trish Zachariah is a tutor of embroidery and mixed media. She teaches many techniques from traditional embroidery, goldwork, ribbon work, stumpwork and various mixed media projects. Her original starting point is always being user friendly, great fun and very ‘doable’!
https://www.facebook.com/TrishandPaula/
https://uk.pinterest.com/trishazac/
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Anne Griffiths - Diamond Stitches
Monday 14 April 2025
This talk will focus on Anne’s science/art public engagement projects as lead artist and Artist in Residence at Diamond Light Source, located at Harwell in Oxfordshire. Scientists at Diamond produced an image known as a diffraction pattern by illuminating a crystallised protein with a powerful beam of light. The image was used to create a huge textile hanging called ‘The Largest Diffraction Pattern in the World’. Anne is also the organiser of the Oxford Summer School.
https://oxfordshireartandcraft.co.uk/
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Tanya Bentham – Medieval Embroidery for the C21st
Monday 10 March 2025 online
Tanya Bentham is all about medieval embroidery with a modern twist. She uses the techniques of Opus Anglicanum to create images for the current age. “I understand the Middle Ages, but my mind is that of a 21st century woman. There’s a lot of humour in medieval art and that’s largely what I’m drawn to. I never know where my imagination will go next, but I’m very much in love with the technical possibilities of Opus Anglicanum as a living style of embroidery.”
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Penn & Tylers Green Village Expo
Saturday 22 February
CETG took a table at the Expo where local groups were advertising their activities. We had the perfectly placed stall, right by the entrance, and attracted lots of interest from visitors. As well as raising funds by the sale of lovely things made by members, we hoped to tempt more people to join our group.
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Toni Buckby - Re-embroidering Blackwork
Monday 10 February 2025 online
Anyone wanting a crash course in blackwork should begin with Toni Buckby. Her talk introduced us to what blackwork is, the differences between historic and modern blackwork styles, blackwork fashions through its 120 years of popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the technicalities of how to work it.
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Social Meeting
Saturday 1 February
Members and friends gathered over cake and a cuppa, and we held a workshop on transfer printing. A few brought their current project to work on, chatting with stitching friends. The sales table had been restocked with lots of tempting packages, and many of us took a few stitching goodies home.
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Monday 13 January 2025 online
Jo is a decorative artist who hand-gilds antique and vintage lace and crochet. She brings new life to preloved items to create contemporary framed pieces and prints, jewellery, cards and Christmas decorations.
