NB We are NOT at the Folk & Transport Museum in December December Meeting - extract from the Chair's November Letter Our meeting on 3rd December will be in St Dorothea`s Church, Gilnahirk, 2-4 Gortland Park, BT5 7NU. Directions. From the Knock Road, drive up the Gilnahirk Road, past the shops, past St Patrick and Our …
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Hello Everyone I have been busy planting up pots. Pink cyclamen for winter and tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and iris for spring. [Artwork is from Elena Oleniuc]. When the rain stops and the wind eases, I plan to tie in the climbing roses. Next Meeting Moving indoors, our next meeting in the Folk Museum is Saturday 5th November with …
I`m running a bit late this month, what with September being the second Saturday!! Suddenly October is almost upon us and another meeting in person, we could get used to this! The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness has come. The birds are feasting on the holly, rowan and elderberries and the Michaelmas Daisies and …
I`m sitting in the garden on this sunny bank holiday watching honey bees, bumble bees and butterflies feeding on verbena bonariensis thinking of the forthcoming year for the patchwork Guild. We are excited to be returning to the Folk Museum, Cultra, and the first meeting will be Saturday 10th September 2022. Our opening meeting will be in the Parochial Hall, Ulster Folk …
RSPB NI Artist of the Year [NB This is a long post, get a cuppa and enjoy the read] "So excited, I was told on Saturday that my piece had won the RSPBNI Artist of the Year, adult section. I can not believe it. It is the first time I have entered a textile piece …
Hi folks. June is on the horizon with the prospect of visits to parks and gardens full of summer colour. Our next zoom meeting, on 5th June 2021, is the AGM and Show and Tell. The AGM will be as concise as possible, but I would like to appeal for new committee members to fill the …
Spring has truly sprung! The sunshine brought out a dozen small tortoiseshell butterflies to feed on my heather, while several dozen ladybirds basked in it`s warmth. I don`t know where the latter were hibernating but, perhaps, that`s why I don`t see greenfly nowadays, if only the blackbirds were more effective at eating slugs!! Enough of …
Welcome.Spring is coming.....I counted three yellow and four crocus flowers in my garden yesterday and today there are more than a dozen. Spring makes me think of planning journeys and on Saturday 6th February we will welcome Greta Fitchett with her talk `Traveller's Tales`, delivered via Zoom."TRAVELLERS TALES : Come along on a journey to places …
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[STOP PRESS Information for those travelling to the venue... The country bound lanes of the Sydenham bypass from Dee Street to George Best City Airport will be closed from 11pm Friday 6th March to 4.30 am Monday 9th March]. Hello Everyone March Meeting and Sunday Workshop March will be a busy month for the guild. …
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Next Meeting: Our next meeting is Saturday 1st February, when we welcome Ruth Brown ( Stone Creek Textiles) to give her talk 'Turn Around when possible` . Her workshops are a bit different and involve making notebooks and sketchbooks. Saturday half -day workshop with Ruth Brown is making a hardback A6 notebook (front row in photo …
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