Our meetings are held at the United Reformed Church in Western Road, Romford on the second Saturday in each month except August.

Annual subscription £45.00

Admission for visitors £5.

Visitors are welcome to attend up to three meetings over a two year period without an obligation to join.

AFTERNOON MEETINGS 1.45 to 4 pm           

2023
September 9th Gill Venton:  Sewing into bread: using sewing skills to feed street children in DRCongo

October 14th Jill Kipnis  ‘Designing for embroidery’

November 11th AGM + speaker Vinny Stapley:   ‘Mersea Florilegeum’ a journey through the flora of saltmarsh

December 9th Festive Activity

2024.
January 13th Elizabeth Ashdown:  ‘Passementerie: an endangered yet thoroughly contemporary craft’

February 10th Rosie James: ‘Stitch Draw’ -figurative machine stitching

March 9th Holly Parr: 3D Beaded flowers

April 13th ‘Sit and Stitch’ socialevent.

May 11th Susan Kay-Williams:  needlework by RSN

June 8th Founders’ Day: “Show and tell” presentation.  Founders’ Cup Competition

July 13th Mary McIntosh  ‘Material as message’  Mary is a Member of ‘Out of the Fold’ textile group

WORKSHOPS    9.30am for 10am start, finish 4pm

October 28th Michele Caragher Goldwork beetle.

November 25th Jill Kipnis  Handstitch collage fruit and veg.

2024
January 27th In-house.  Skills shared by our own members.

March 23rd tba – possible zoom workshop

April 27th Bridget Bailey.  Embossed silk flowers

June 22nd Vinny Stapley.  “Mersea flora/fauna zoomed in”  Hand stitch.

July 20th Kate Pankhurst.  Blackwork

Residential at High Leigh.
16th-18th September 2024.
Tutor: Jenny Adin-Christie