December Welcome

The birds are feasting on the holly and ivy berries …

Christmas is coming!

Our next meeting on Saturday 3^rd December is in St Dorothea`s Church, Gilnahirk, 2-4 Gortland Park BT5 7NU. The car park behind the church is accessed through the gate in the hedge in Gortland Park.  [Don’t worry it’s not a matter of crawling through and will be obvious when you see it].

Refreshments: The meeting will begin, as usual, with refreshments, so please remember to bring your mug.

Competition: The Christmas competition is A Handmade Christmas Card and voting slips can be bought to support this year`s charity, which is The N.I. Children`s Hospice. ( There will be no ballot in December )

For the Secret Santa please wrap up a fat quarter of fabric ( doesn’t have to be Christmas fabric).

Charity Sales Table: There will also be a Charity Sales Table (cash only please). One of our members has donated books, fabric and accessories, so if anyone has any textile-related items that they would like to donate for rehoming please bring them along. ( I would request that any unsold items are taken home again)

Looking forward to the New Year and our meeting on 7^th January 2023 is back in the Parochial Hall, Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra.  In the morning members will be demonstrating various techniques and, in the afternoon, there will be a `sewical` in the Parochial Hall when everyone is invited to come along and work on their own projects and socialise.

Curve Exhibition in May: The entry form and guidelines for `A Walk in The Park`, our exhibition in the Curve Gallery, Bangor Carnegie Library from 4th-30^th May 2023 is available on the website. Remember the size is 20″x40″ portrait orientation.

Details of Gaye Grant`s workshop are also now available.

I would like to advise everyone that there will, now, not be a guild meeting on 6^th May 2023 – Coronation Day.

If I don’ `t see you in December, may I take this opportunity to wish you a Happy Christmas and a Joyous New Year.

Anne