Welcome to the Website of the West Bridgford Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild. We are a friendly, enthusiastic and active group of about sixty members, covering a wide range of interests within stitched textiles, and warmly welcome new members and visitors. We offer a lively and varied monthly program, Workshop classes, Project day classes, and exhibition opportunities, We also have a Sew and So meeting open to all. Our monthly email newsletter keeps us in touch with our activities as well as other activities in the area If you have an interest in textile art, embroidery and stitch, do come and join us as a regular member or on an occasional basis as a visitor. Visitors are always very welcome. Plenty of Parking on site or nearby streets. Please don't block the Vicar or anyone else in. We meet at St Paul's Church, Boundary Road,West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DB  2nd Sat 2 - 4 pm,
2nd Thur 7 - 9 pm, alternate months
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WBEG Monthly Meeting Saturday 8 December 2pm Christmas Social Afternoon Sew and So meeting will be held at St Paul's Church Hall on Saturday December 8th at 11.00 am Lorraine Ellison will be bringing some of the fossils, rocks and minerals from her collection for us to look at, sketch and photograph as inspiration for Kickstart. Or you can bring your own work and enjoy the company. We hope that you will come along and bring your lunch, our Christmas meeting will follow at 2.00pm.St Paul's Church Boundary Road, West Bridgford, NG2 7DB Visitors always very welcome. Lecture Meeting Dates in advance:2018-2019 2018 December 8th 2019 January 10th February 9th March 14th April 13th May 9th June 8th July 11th: | Sew and So with Kickstart at 11a.m on Saturday December 8th Our regular informal stitching meeting, Sew and So, is open to all members. Lorraine Ellison will be bringing many lovely examples of fossils, rocks and minerals for the . This may help Kickstart participants to be inspired, and Lorraine will give information about them all. The fossils range from about 1000 years old to an amazing 450 million years old, and they include a mammoth's tooth from Norfolk during the Ice age, shark's teeth from London, ammonites from the south of England, corals from the Peak District, fossil ferns from a Somerset coal tip, various marine animal shells, including some from Wymeswold, and much more. Among the rocks are an amazing, crystalline slice of a meteorite from outer space, and a royal blue rock from Afghanistan. She also has beautiful mineral crystals too. Lorraine collected many for her Geology degree, spending much time, eyes down to the ground, wandering across fields, along sea shores and into quarries. Do come, bring your lunch and stay for the afternoon meeting. |
