8th August 2026 Letting Go of the Outcome – Amanda Duke Don’t we all have UFOs (unfinished objects)? Go on, own up! Most of us have half finished work, or even half started work, which we hide away as we can’t quite work out what to do next, or have got bored with the project. Well those of…
11 July 2026 A really interesting day with everyone taking part in creating their own handmade book. There is no limit to people’s imagination in mark making and we drew upon our skills from previous sessions, such as writing, printing, dying ,zentangle and sgraffito to name but a few .
14th June 2026 Members of Contemporary Textiles Surrey recently enjoyed a day workshop with Donna Munday, exploring free machine embroidery and using stitch to create floral drawings. The day began with some machine “doodling” as we familiarised ourselves with the technique. Starting with straight lines, curves, circles and zig-zags, we gradually gained confidence before progressing…
9th May 2026 We had two different parts to our day today. In the morning Amanda Cobett took us on a tour of her micro world, exploring fungi and mosses, followed by a worldwide view – a tour of textiles in the afternoon. Amanda Cobbett produces exquisite free-motioned, machine-embroidered, 3D and very accurate interpretations of Lichen,…
Our meeting on 11 April 2026 was a fun whole–day workshop on using Lutradur led by Kathryn Knapp with assistance from Buffy Fieldhouse. Kathryn demonstrated how to create Lutradur lanterns and how to make delicate Lutradur leaves. For the leaves, Kathryn brought Thermofax stencils, which we used to push ExpandIt through onto the Lutradur base. Then we…
14th March 2026 Wow – what a turnout. This meeting was better attended than any we have held before. Thank you to everyone for your patience as we signed -n visitors and rearranged the room to add extra chairs. Today we were treated to a fascinating and humorous talk by Rosemary Hufton (@rosemaryhufton) with an amazing array…
14 February 2026 Guest speaker: Richard McVetis Whilst quilting is in our group name, we’re a broad textile church, and manymembers have an embroidery background. Richard’s distinctive spare andmonochrome style is intriguing and it was fascinating to hear about his inspiration and process in an entertaining talk. An artist, designer and painter as well as…
8 November 2025 Our November meeting gave us the chance to get up to speed with the planning for the Denbies exhibition in January 2026. A number of members had brought along their Wine Challenge pieces – no pictures here – you will have to wait for our exhibition! All I will say is that…
10 October 2025 Today two members led two very different workshops, and both were a greatsuccess. In the morning Jane Wheeler introduced us to Dorset buttons. Once a huge cottage industry, there are all sorts of designs to be made but the basic assembly and construction is the same. Small rings (curtain rings of any…
13 September 2025 We were lucky enough to have an inspiring talk from Sara Cook today.Sara is probably best known for her interest in Korean textile work and in particular working with translucent textiles influenced by Bojagi. However, her presentation today concentrated on natural dyes and the plants we could all grow at home. She…