| PROGRAMME MAY 2026-MAY 2027
Monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at St Mary’s Church Hall, Ilex Way, Goring, BN12 4UZ. Coffee and tea is available from 2pm, and the speaker usually starts around 2.30. Non-members are welcome to attend as a guest. Where an afternoon is described as Sit-and-sew, you can bring something you’d like to work on during the session, such as sewing, knitting, crochet, beading etc. Some sit-and-stitch meetings have a ‘stitch corner’ where a member demonstrates a technique that anyone can join in with. Scroll to the end of the programme for details of day-workshops and outings, and the three monthly sub-groups. Please note: if you are looking for 2027 details, make sure you scroll right to the bottom of the list. |
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| Tues 9th June 2026 | Sit-and-sew
Work on the group crazy quilt Or ‘Stitch Corner’ with Jan Angove: Make a bargello square. |
| Tue 14th July 2026 | Speaker: Michelle House: ‘Celebrating what remains’: Contemporary art with textiles and print. |
| Tues 11th Aug 2026 | Summer tea party, with sit-and-stitch.
‘Showcase a member’. Anne Lim will show her hand-made dolls. |
| Tues 8th Sept 2026 | Speaker: Rob Jones. Japanese Textiles: Sashiko, Kogin, Shibori and Indogo dyeing. |
| Tues 13th oct 2026 | Speaker: Isobella Jose. ‘Hats – how they are made’. |
| Tues 10th Nov 2026 | Speaker: Vanessa Marr. ‘Dometstic Dusters: Women and domesticity – what’s your perspective?’ |
| Tues 8th Dec 2026 | Christmas Celebrations, and show of the Christmas Challenge
Sit-and-Sew |
| Tues 12th Jan 2027 | Sit-and-sew
Stitch corner: Valerie and Margaret showing their beading work |
| Tues 9th Feb 2027 | Speaker: Beth Power. ‘Bringing animals to life with thread: the art of neede-painting’. |
| Tues 13th April 2027 | Speaker: Linda Hoddy, a talk on her work. Title tbc. |
| Tues 11th May 2027 | AGM
Display of work by the three sub-groups and by individual members |
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DAY-WORKSHOPS Speak to Liz Ganney if you would like to attend a day workshop, or look for the sign-up sheet at a Tuesday meeting. A deposit is usually required to secure your place. |
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| Date | Workshop | Venue |
| 1oth June 2026 | Helen Sill: Indian style stitch, with shisha mirrors | Glebelands Community Centre, Ferring |
| 11th November 2026 | Chrissie Juno: Goldwork, Or Nue. Indian leaf or snail | Glebelands Community Centre, Ferring |
| 10th Feb 2027 | Isobel Moore: ‘Flotsam and Jetson’. Stitching with wire. | Glebelands Community Centre, Ferring |
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OUTINGS |
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| 17th June 2026 | Outing to the Victoria and Albert Museum textile store-house. | By train |
Traditional Embroidery Group.
The group shares traditional hand-stitch techniques and projects. Meets on the first and fourth Mondays of the month (unless it is a bank holiday) from 2-4pm at the Friends Meeting House, 34 Mill Rd., Worthing BN11 5DR. Contact Anne Turner if you are interested.
Mixed Media Group.
The group experiments with different mixed media techniques, for example print, batik, paper-making, dyeing, heat-processes, 3D constructions etc. (the sessions may or may not involve stitch). Meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 11am to 4pm at Glebelands Community Centre, Greystoke Road, Ferring. Contact Jane Robinson if you are interested.
Thursday Workshop Group.
Meets on the third Thursday of the month in the Marriott Scout Hut, Mulberry Lane, Goring, from 10-4. The group works on different techniques or projects from Stitch Magazine or elsewhere. The group also undertakes group projects for charity, for example making Dignity quilts for the hospital and fiddle-quilts for people with Alzheimer’s etc. Contact Linda Hoddy if you are interested.