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Whitley WI Craft Group (WI members only)<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our Craft Group usually meet on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 1.30 pm in Whitley Village Hall \u2013 please look on the calendar<\/a><\/mark><\/strong> to check details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annette Minor leads the group and is always full of ideas and enthusiasm. People are welcome to come along to see what we are doing. There is always something for everyone, even if it is just a sociable hour or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Next meeting – 1<\/strong>6th April<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next meeting is just before Easter and we shall all be making a fresh table flower arrangement. \u00a0 This will be something new for us,without a tutor, so it will be fun to see what we can achieve. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/mark>025 Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 ladies arrived in glorious spring sunshine to make their Easter bonnets. \u00a0There were \u00a0flowers galore, rabbits, carrots, eggs and chicks with a trimming of ribbons. We created a wonderful variety of hats. Maybe we’ll be all dressed up for a wonderful Easter parade at our next main meeting on May 1st.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The craft group had a busy stitching and gluing afternoon adorning our tree with green hearts to show the love. This is the usual annual February celebration of everything we care about and want to protect from the worst impacts of the climate crisis. We shall be showing our green heart tree at the main meeting in March with everyone\u2019s hearts attached. If you have a heart saved from earlier years, why not bring it along and add it to our tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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January 2025 – Planning Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11 ladies arrived for what turned out to be a very productive afternoon. Our intention was to plan our programme for the year. Annette has had many donations to our Craft Cupboard over the years, including many from dear Irene Peers, and she set these out for us to view \u2013 donations welcome where members wanted to take items away for their own use.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annette has put lots of thought int this and we achieved an outline plan for the year:
Feb 25 – Green Heart Day again. We will each be given a kit to make our own contribution to a display at our March meeting.
Mar 25 \u2013 Easter Bonnets. Bring along your summer hat (Hobbycraft have a great selection at \u00a32.00 each) and we’ll have lots of resources to decorate it \u2013 maybe we can wear them for the Group Spring Lunch on the following day
Apr 25 \u2013 to be decided, very close to Easter
Jun\/Jul- the Mosedales will share their talents with us on one of these dates
Aug 25 – No meeting
Sep 25 \u2013 Ribbon Bags \u2013 maybe filled with Lavendar
Oct 25 \u2013 Simple Cross Stitch Christmas cards \u2013 you should be able to finish one in the afternoon, led by Melanie
Nov 25 \u2013 Christmas Boxes \u2013 Jean will share kits and show you how to make your own pyramid shaped box, just the right size for a chocolate. A lovely addition to your Christmas tables<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024 Meetings<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2024 – A Christmas Star<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our own Melanie led the session with 12 enthusiastic crafters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She had been busy preparing little kits for each of us. Melanie showed us a star she had made \u2013 with the promise it was all about folding, no sewing required.With 4 strips of material in a variety of Christmas fabrics she demonstrated how to fold the material strips round each other, carefully following instructions. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With 4 strips of material in a variety of Christmas fabrics she demonstrated how to fold the material strips round each other, carefully following instructions. Everybody was very busy folding, creasing, flipping our work over and all succeeded in making a beautiful star \u2013 we should have plenty of entries in our December meeting competition \u2013 A Christmas Star. We went home with a set of instructions for us to have another go at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Many thanks to Melanie and Annette for a very enjoyable and productive afternoon. As a thank you Annette presented Melanie with an Amaryllis plant to be grown in only pebbles \u2013 another challenge for her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 2024 – Christmas Card making<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our very own Vanessa led a large group of 15 ladies in making Christmas Cards. She showed us the very professional effects that could be obtained with equipment such as a ‘Die cutter’ to cut out complex shapes and an embosser to give a textured paper to card. She also brought along lots of card blanks, ‘push’ out Chrismas shapes, ribbons and other resources for us to use. We all really enjoyed the session, including Annette’s delicious cakes. We each had our individual cards to take away with us. Many thanks to Annette and Vanessa for a most enjoyable afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ju<\/strong>ly 2024 – Quilling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liz Leech from Dutton WI told us about her \u2018Life through quilts\u2019. She started off with a beautiful hexagonal pieced quilt made by her grandmother, now worn thin through wear, then progressed through various designs including some made from tea towels bought on family holidays! Liz classified many of her projects as unfinished – haven\u2019t we all got some of these hiding away in a cupboard!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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She is always trying new designs and explained the techniques of English Paper Piecing (stabilising fabric with paper before hand sewing the pieces together) and Foundation Paper Piecing (done on a sewing machine and ideal for getting the perfect point). The small hexagonal design shown here is based on a quilt in the V & A museum and is still a work in progress!<\/p>\n<\/div>

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June – The Royal Cheshire Show<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early January 2024 the theme for the Cheshire Show exhibits came through and it was \u2018The Olympics\u2019. We decided that the Craft Group would enter the ‘Combined Co-operative’ class ‘Teams’ \u2013 we had to depict one country that was participating. The display had to include 1 item of cookery, one item of craft and 2 further items of cookery, craft or Art. A total of 4 items to be judged, with additional marks for interpretation and staging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Britain was unanimously decided upon. Rules were read and the process started. A table with skirt hung with red, white and blue ribbon was made. A covered tabletop of 36cms was acquired and covered in the union flag made up of exact size ribbon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

All four countries would be represented by their traditional products\/trades. After much deliberation we decided on<\/p>\n\n\n\n