Hello to All

I thought I had posted at least one new update in 2023 but there are none showing. Ho hum time does fly by.... We are now approaching our September meeting on the 9th. Its National Lacemaking Day and our afternoon cream tea. So it promises to be a lovely lace/cream filled day... 

Here are a few more pictures from the last few meetings...

 Prize winning fan by Wendy

 Saying farewell to Jenny & Graham our local supplier and wishing them a happy retirement.  

 New years banquet reinstated after a Covid gap 

 another prize winner by Ingrid

 Puzzling over our pillows during the workshop

Sue's horseshoe 

 All enjoying the day.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the 9th 

 

 Happy New Year to everyone...

...and I hope that you had a healthy enjoyable Christmas.

We had a really interesting talk on knitting with wire in our November meeting and we were all given the chance to 'have ago' ourselves. I found it quite tricky but Sue Burns, who gave us the talk had developed some interesting ideas.

We had a lovely display of Christmassy crafts made by our members and ...

we finished off our day with a delicious slice of our 35th birthday cake, made by Cathy Smith. She had even made a lace Martlets Bird to sit on the top. Beautiful. Thank you Cathy.

Here is our 2023 programme. 

14 January 2023

Supplier: Graham and Jenny Hudson

 New Year Banquet

Bursary Draw

Competition: New Year/Winter 

11 March 2023

Speaker: Neil Sadler

A Policeman’s lot can be quite an interesting one

Competition: William Morris Inspired 

13 May 2023

Workshop: Magic Threads Rosemary Brown

Supplier: Roseground sale or return

Competition: Jill Moy Memorial

Freedom (or any lace)

8 July 2023

Speaker: Katherine Collett

The Downton Era – The Start of Modern Britain

Chairman’s Choice Award

Committee Choice Award

9 September 2023

 National Lacemaking Day

 Fundraising - Bring & Buy

 Cream Tea

11 November 2023

AGM

Speaker: Janet Pennington

Sussex Inn Signs & Their History

Competition: Light

Looking forward to seeing you in January at our 

New Years Banquet or at some other time during the year.

 It's now nearly the end of August and thoughts are turning to our September Meeting and our new event 'Afternoon Cream Tea'. This replacing the New Year Banquet that we missed in January due to Covid.

I wonder what will be on the project table next meeting or has everyone been to hot to make lace...here are a few pieces that were on display last meeting 

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the 10th September 2022 with your orders for the birthday bobbin which will be handed out in our November meeting.

 

Good News....

Our March meeting on 12th is going ahead in person as planned, we are catching up with our  competitions

We are also planning to have our 'share a skill'. This has been moved several times over the last two years...pictures to follow.....

Happy New Year to All, but unfortunately not the one we were hoping for! In view of the current Covid - Omicron situation it has been decided to cancel our January 2022 meeting. But we are planning to send a zoom link to our members so that those who want, can have a catch up. Please contact us if you are interested in joining us.

We hope to resume our meetings in March. 

Our September and November meetings were very enjoyable and it was good to see everyone face to face. We also had a really enjoyable talk by Dr Janet Pennington on Cake and Ale. Janet had stepped in at short notice to help her friend who was due to do our talk but who was unable to due to illness. 

In November our project table was laden...

We also celebrated our 34th birthday. Congratulations to Cathy for her winning entry in our competition the 12 days of Christmas....

 

...finally here is our 2022 program.

Date                8^th January 2022 - Cancelled

Supplier           Graham and Jenny Hudson – cancelled

                        Bursary Draw – postponed till March

Competition    Shapes – postponed till March

Date                12^th March 2022

Workshop        Angela Meakin           

                        Canvas Work Magnets

Competition    Spring

Supplier           Roseground sale or return box

Date                14^th May 2022

                        Bring and Buy

Competition    Jill Moy Memorial -  Fauna

Date                9^th July 2022

Speaker           Dr Janet Pennington

                        On  Your Feet, Boots and Shoes in History

                        Chairman's Choice Award

                        Committee Choice Award

Date                12^th September 2022

                        National Lacemaking Day

                        Summer Picnic

Date                12^th November 2022

                        A.G.M.

Speaker           TBC

Competition    Christmas

Exciting News....

 ....In fact two lots of exciting news...

We are meeting in person on 11th September 2021 Whooooo!!

And we have secured our future at the newly refurbished Lavina House at a price that we can afford. So are meetings there are going to continue there.We are so very relieved. 

Please remember that we are running 2 Jill Moy competitions, one for the cancelled meeting May 2020 titled Vision and the second for May 2021 titled Floral. Please remember to bring your entries along with you to the meeting.

It is National Lace Day, so we are just making lace and catching up with each other. Also hopefully you have had time to sort things out so there will be lots of bringing and buying on our Bring & Buy table.

Looking forward to getting together and seeing everyone in person again.

Time: 10.00 am - 4.00 pm

Address: Lavinia House Dukes Square Horsham RH12 1GZ

Email: martletslacemakers@yahoo.co.uk

 

Our March meeting with our speaker Anthony Poulton-Smith was very interesting explained how our garments got their names, the feedback from our members was very positive.

So on the 8^th May 2021 we are having a second virtual speaker, Ann Day from the Lace Guild to talk to us starting at 2.00 pm. If you would like the Zoom links please email Martlets Lacemakers on martletslacemakers@yahoo.co.uk

We are also announcing our next competition to our members entitled ‘Spring’ closing date the end of our July meeting on 10^th July 2021.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone.....