December meeting - it's Christmas stitching time!

Fabric and ribbon and bling, what more could one want for a December meeting?

Anne B led us in a Christmas tree decorating session using fabric and felt she'd prepared beforehand - it's great when someone makes choices for you so you don't faff too much! - and beads, ribbons, braids and threads we'd brought from out own stashes. 

We were soon hard at work, only distracted by a very sweet (!) quiz and our gossiping.  There were real embroiderers amongst us, but some settled for couching/stitching on as much ribbon and bling as possible. 

After a lovely, tasty lunch, where we enjoyed everyone's contributions to our 'Jacob's Feast', we dived back into our stitching with renewed vigour.  

Another quiz, this time with an embroidery focus, the opportunity to vote for our favourite pieces of work in our annual competition and a raffle kept us busy for the rest of the afternoon.

Congratulations to Rachel and Janet, who were the winners in the competitions.

By the end of the day, most people had started on two Christmas trees and some had attached them to fabric and mounted them on CDs, to be sewn back-to-back, ready to hang when we returned home.

The final, or nearly final, pieces can be seen below.

Thank you to Anne for a good stitching session, to the two quiz-setters and to everyone who participated.