Coffee Morning

Don't forget

Coffee Morning
November 21st  2018
10-30 am - 12-30 pm

To be held at the Two Doors Studio
Alsager
Everyone welcome.

Autumn Leaves

I thought you might like to share my Autumn pictures. Who could fail to be inspired by these rich Autumnal colours.

Hartford Methodist Church,Cheshire

There's a wonderful display of hand- made poppies on display in Hartford Methodist Church. There  are over 400 poppies made by the local Cubs,friends in Australia,America and Ireland and the villagers of Hartford.

Mary has been involved in this project. The poppies will be on display at the 10-30 am service on Sunday.

Mike Fitchett

Today we were lucky to welcome Mike Fitchett as our speaker.

His day job was designing clocks. He has recently retired.

He is a talented designer and artist. Recently, he has turned his talents into designing quilts. He works with his wife Greta.

Hathersage,Derbyshire poppies

I was visiting Hathersage on Friday and came across this lovely display of textile poppies.

They were made in remembrance of all those from Hathersage who gave their lives and served their country in many ways during the Great War.
 
                                                                 1914-1918

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

The lost “Bayeux Tapestry” of the First World War – a battlefield panorama painted by British veterans of the conflict – has gone on display to mark the centenary of the Armistice after being rediscovered in the vaults of a museum. ‘It represents the teardrops of a whole generation from North Staffordshire and as such it reminds us of the sacrifice these men made’ Staffordshire historian Levison Wood Members of the 5th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment, who were skilled in the ceramic crafts of the Potteries, created the 70-wide canvas in 1923 to remember 960 of their fallen comrades. The panorama of the battlefields where they fought on the Western Front was last seen in 1985, but has been found hidden in more than half a million items in the stores at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
Lost ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ of the First World War found in museum vaults in Stoke-on-Trent A byplane flies over a First World War battlefield as depicted in the Staffordshire tapestry. (Photo: Stoke-on-Trent City Council)

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/news/first-world-war-ww1-somme-passchendaele-museum-staffordshire-bayeux-tapestry/

Next Meeting

Mike Fitchett

An illustrated talk by the artist ,designer and teacher Mike Fitchett. 

This should be a very inspirational talk . I'm really looking forward to hearing about Mike's work. He takes some of his inspiration from vintage travel posters.

Mike takes his illustrations and reworks them onto quilts.

www.heatherleadesign.com

The meeting will take place on Tuesday 6 th November 2018.

Alsager Library

Alsager

1-45 for 2.

Please note this is a change to the published programme. 

Members and visitors welcome.