June Speaker

 Unfortunately Julia Gahagan is unable to come to our June meeting due to illness in the family.  This means that she has cancelled the talk and the workshop.

Pat Screaton has been able to find someone to take her place for the talk in June.  Roxanne from Hannah's Room will be coming to talk and will bring her pop up shop.

Roxanna is the owner of Hannah's Room, which is named after her elder sister.  When she her sister left home in 1999 her bedroom became their mother's sewing room and eventually the base for a fabric business, specialising in Batik fabrics. Since then Hannah's Room has grown and grown.  Roxanne took over from her mother ten years ago.  She juggles a busy family life, as she is the mother of 4 children, with running Hannah's Room.  She is keen to show her children the pride in working hard as well as the value of quality time together.

She is passionate about Hannah's Room and all that the business does.  They only stock the best quality of Indonesian Batik Fabrics.  

She is keen to constantly improve the experience for her customers whether that is online, at shows, talks and workshops.

Kate Findlays Workshop

Unfinished pieces from Kate Findlay's workshop

All different

 

May Meeting

 Our May meeting saw the return visit of textile artist Kate Findlay.  She last came in 2022.

She did not disappoint and her presentation was met with an attentive audience following her detailed and fascinating explanations.

Through her videos Kate led us through building up her original designs of animals, birds and natural landscapes.  There were also plenty of finished pieces to examine as well.

Kate dyes a lot of fabric herself and particularly interesting was her method of painting tree trucks and using tiny confetti pieces.

Many of us were tempted by the wide range of items on sale, ranging from greetings cards to patterns and complete kits of her designs.

Examples of her work