November Speaker

 Our speaker for November  is Alyssa Robinson and her talk is entitled "One thing leads to another" The meeting is in the afternoon at 2 pm.

Alyssa and her mother enjoyed getting the new edition of Golden Hands Magazine each month and she loved all the different techniques and remembers making a smocked dress for a little girl in the seventies.

She made clothes for dolls from her mothers dressmaking offcuts and then things for herself. She learnt sewing all through school, and made stage costumes and copies of high street fashion for herself.

She qualified and worked as a cartographer and geologist but always spent spare time making clothes, eventually setting up a bespoke dressmaking business.

After some amazing years as a full time mum, she enrolled in a City & Guilds Embroidery course and hasn't looked back.  By the time of her Diploma Show, She had completed her Post Compulsory Education Certificate and was teaching the beginners' class at the same college.  After 7 years teaching there, she set up her own studio on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border and set about teaching City & Guilds courses and day workshops.   

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