Stratford-upon-Avon Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers

 APRIL GUILD MEETING - Backstrap Looms Our member Ros led us through her presentation about Backstrap looms, where they are used and the beautiful weaving which can be made on this very simple, portable loom.     Having received some instructions prior to the meeting quite a number of members had set themselves up with the loom and followed along.  MAY BIRTHDAY MEETING This May our Guild celebrated its 46th Birthday!  Our Honorary President Ann Howells gave us a history of the establishment of the Guild and how it has built over the following years.  Members had been challenged at Christmas to decorate a cotton bag and we had a visual display of more than 20 bags and the excellent skills of the member.  All had all been dyed, embroidered, printed and crocheted upon.  Pictures of this work will be available on our Gallery.  

Following on from our successful Guild Spring Craftalong, we are hosting a second Craftalong over the bank holiday weekend at the end of May.  We would normally be at the Shipston Wool Fair, so we thought that, as we are missing out on that social event it would be nice to have a bit of a virtual get together instead.   We are running it between the 29 th  and 31 st  of May, with a final session at our ‘first of the month’ meeting on the Tuesday the 1 st  of June. As per last time, we are encouraging any members who want to take part to set themselves a bit of a challenge or two, but there is no pressure to do so - you can take part as much or as little as you fancy. The main idea is to just encourage us to take some time to do something crafty over that long weekend! Some of us from Stratford will also be creating some mini sheep decorations that we can use during future guild events such as the Shipston Wool Fair and the World Wide Spin in Public ...