Guildford Club update

Our last meeting fell in the middle of the school holidays, and just before the 50th Anniversary Exhibition. As a result only 4 of our regular members attended, but we made up for small numbers with our BIG enthusiasm for the project of the month. Finger knitting was a new technique to all the kids, and some of the parents as well. I found a tutorial on the internet and taught myself over a couple of days, so you can imagine my delight when all the kids managed to make several items in our 3 hour session. I brought along some of the fluffy, knobbly and hairy knitting yarns that are around at the moment as well as a couple of plainer ones. Some of the kids worked with 2 yarns together and had great results. I hope you like our pictures. Look for some instructions in the next Newsletter !
Christine, leader Guildford Club.

Exhibition workshops- colourful bird puppet

4 students made a colourful bird puppet on Sunday. Terry, Caitlin, Eleanor and Louise chose their kits and then measured and sewed hair, stitched eyes, beak and body together over the next 1 1/2 hours. By the end of the session, everyone had finished their puppet and posed for photos. I'll post the individual photos when I can match each name to the photo I took in the next week or so. The other workshop photos were taken by another Committee member, so I'll post those too when I can get them. We also sold lots of kits to people not able to do the workshop on site, so if you'd like to buy one (see my older posts on this blog for photos of the workshops) contact the Guild and we'll see if one is available.

50th Anniversary Exhibition display

A BIG THANKYOU to everyone who sent along work to be included in the YTFG display at the Exhibition, as you can see we had a fabulous dislay and lots of visitors were full of praise for the work done by all the kids. Our banner turned out really well too, we had a name patch for every active group and some groups also did sample patches to go with their names. The YTFG Committee members sewed the banner together. It will now be displayed in the Roma Field Room at the Guild and at Craft shows where the Guild exhibits, and may even travel around NSW to some regional exhibitions in the future too. Well done, everyone !!