the NEC Embroidery, Fashion and stitching show

The EYES (East Yorkshire Embroidery Club) had its annual coach trip to the NEC Birmingham. The North been gripped by heavy snow showers which seemed to have affected the numbers attending as we could get around easily and access the stands and goods easily without having to wait. The ticket  accesses three shows.... HobbyCraft, Sewing for Pleasure and The Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch Show........I usually leave it to Lyn to take photos (she is better at it) but Lyn had to miss out on this trip.....I ran around last minute before I left, to get a few. So many this year had NO photography on them....not surprising when I was told that people have passed off the work as their own on the strength of a photo....one even featured on the front of a magazine.....I didn't get photos of the Women's Institute smocking exhibition...which I found interesting....but I did get these.....

These were A4 size and made by the Contemporary Quilt group (www.contemporaryquilt.org.uk) This is a special interest group within The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. These people have pledged to make one A4 quilt a month, and they are not constrained by traditional quilting....guess I'd be able to manage this then ! BUT not to the standard of some of them, just because they were small there was no let up in quality or variety of techniques The flyer I had picked up advertises a collection of 47 A3 quilts on Childhood Memories for hire at an unbelievable cost of £75 which includes delivery and collection !

Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice costumes from a recent production...Couldn't get the others as people were spending quite some time looking at them and I had a coach to catch.

these stuck me as being a bit map like.....and they were to do with Lisa's University journey ....These are especially for Hexy Lyn.........

this is the piece I like..... "mucky" hand prints holding up the pinny. In the apron is a piece of coal..so evocative.

This is much more my type of thing, it has a story to tell...like the human hair coat I made at Uni....Look up Lisa Marie Evans at www.maggoo.co.uk to see her work.

This needed to be seen, so many techniques, so much to be seen. Very friendly young woman who seemed genuinely delighted to asked if I could photograph her work.........Doing her MA..........Karen Casper...
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Pat Archibalds work....Textile Artist, Teacher, Writer www.patarchibald.com to see more of her work
I think this one is HongKong and the suns path during 24 hours catching the windows of the skyscrapers.

This is from the India collection....They have a sense of a moment of peace and tranquillity
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I spoke to a number of stands about my "thingy" of the last post...A lady on the National Needlework Archive (www.nationalneedleworkarchive.org.uk) thought the pins were to do with holding hairpin crochet together to line it up for joining together. But did not know what the handheld thing was.  I could envisage wrapping yarn around the metal prongs and crocheting up the yarn inbeween the prongs like hairpin crochet The lady on the Forge mill Needle Museum (Redditch) photographed it and sent it to someone who might know and took my phone number.....Both of these places look like a good place to visit when I read the leaflets and I would certainly like to go. I also asked on the knitting stands, needlework equipment and tools stands..... I have to tell people next year should I find out what it is.....
I was so tired at the show....I didn't go to the Hobbycraft one......it's usually mostly card making anyway and I didn't venture up to Miniatura (dolls house and miniatures) either. I did sit down at a free workshop to get people trying a bit of embroidery.....and made an embroidered button......We had a laugh as I didn't notice I'd picked up two pieces of material...managed to embroider through them and only noticed when it came to trimming it to fit the button blank........ I WAS wearing my reading glasses.............................
Specsavers for me next week then !!!