Crafts
What: Meeting to discuss and practice a variety of craft projects. To chat about, show and have a go at varying interests and ideas. Group and individual projects could include quilting, sewing, knitting, felting, crochet, pyrography and calligraphy. Visits to craft fairs and workshops (eg wreath making, decorating pottery) to be agreed.
Where: Meets at Bearsted & Thurnham Tennis Club
When: The group meets every 2nd Wednesday of the month 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.
How to join: Send an email message to Sue the Craft Group co-ordinator or Linda Interest Groups Co-ordinator using the blue pigeon Send a Message button on the top right hand side of this page.
Annual Report 2023
Crafts - Sue
Craft Group originally met in members homes but the open afternoon in September 2022 produced a waiting list of members wanting to join us, so we had to look for a new venue. We have been made very welcome at the Bearsted and Thurnham Tennis Club. The 12 of us have enough space there to carry out our varying projects on the second Wednesday morning each month.
For the coronation this year we made fabric wreaths. We’ve also made air-dried clay decorations, decoupaged blackboards and boxes, glass painted jars, made papercraft stars and iris folded Christmas Cards. We’ve sewn and knitted items including Ferrero Roche puddings and tried crochet squares We demonstrated between us how to make Christmas fabric crafts including a table basket, napkin, decorative cracker, fir cone decoration, placemat and coaster.
In the summer we went out to Rochester Cathedral to see the 12 large fabric panels that make up ‘Threads Through Creation’ which were magnificent.