First Three Months of 2012

The Hub Craft Club

Meetings every Wednesday from 2pm until 4pm at Rasen Hub as follows:

January

11         Bring your own thing

18          Decorate a canvas bag in your chosen design & medium

25         Hand stitched Patchwork with Lyn

February

1           Bring your own thing

8          Needle Felting with Catherine (additional £2 charge – please book a place so that packs can be prepared)

15        Create design for pottery painting on 22nd

22        Pottery Painting (£10 additional charge – need to book in advance – places limited)

29        Linus Project

March

7            Bring your own thing

14        Tassle Making

21         Easter Sugar Craft with Marie – week one

28        Easter Sugar Craft with Marie – week two

This is a drop in club – no membership required.

£2.00 per session and a small donation for tea/coffee.

Feel free to bring your own thing or join in with the project of the week.

We are friendly enthusiastic crafters – please come and join us.

Gorgeous George !!

Hi Everyone

Just couldn't resist posting news of my first granchild on here. George Richard Williams was born on 13th September 2011 at 11:34 am, suprisingly on the day he was due!! He weighed in at 9lb 4ozs (4.19kg) and is really gorgeous.....I really don't think I'm biased ....lol..He's the most beautiful baby boy I have ever known.

Ashlea was only at the hospital for an hour before he made his grand entrance and came out the same day. Mother, baby and Grandma are all doing well.

Bye for now

Bee

Making a New Start

Hello again everyone, it is such a long time since I have been in touch with you all, I've really been very remiss regarding this Blog.....Nobody to blame but me, so I am very sorry, It has been much more fun making things and socializing with everyone than it has attending to "The Housework" and making sure that this Blogg is kept up to date.

Our club is almost a year old now, how fast time flies and it seems timely to reflect on the past year, what has gone well and what hasn't....... and to look forward to the next year, how we will develop on from our first year, changes and hopefully improvements we will make.

I'm making an early start......one thing that needs to improve is Blogg maintenance, It would be really useful if other club members to help keep this blogg updated, please let me know if you are interested in helping me out.

Over the past few weeks we have been having general discussions at club about getting a little more organised, another thing that needed some attention as some people are happy to go with the flow but other people are happier with a bit more structure. Following on from these discussions the following programme has been devised for the next few months.

7th September Hub Club Birthday and swapshop.
Bring along any crafty supplies or gadgets you want to swap.

14th September Bring Your Own.
An opportunity to get some work done on one of your own
unfinished projects.

21st September Start Scrap patchwork.
Use strips of scrap fabric to make a unique project.

28th September Have a go at glass painting

5th October Bring your own or learn to do basic crochet stiches

12th October Cake Decoration with Christmas theme

19th October Cake Decoration week 2

26th October Autumn Applique
Using textiles to create an autumn scene

2nd November Poppies or Firework Bookmarks
Create a poppy themed project in your own media to decorate the
window for Rememberance Sunday
Or make a firework theme bookmark

9th November Bring your own or do a bit of beading

16th November Papercrafting - wreaths and garlands

23rd November Using fabric to create Christmas Cards

30th November Christmas wreaths using evergreen foliage

7th December Bring your own or make last minute Christmas Presents

14th December 12 Noon - Christmas Lunch - bring a plate of Christmas goodies and
share lunch with other crafters

Please note even if there are weeks when the programme does not appeal to you please come along and do your own thing, chat and socialise.

Crafting Weekend at Vikings Centre

Just wanted to say Thank You Very Much to everyone, particularly Barbara, for a wonderful weekend crafting. I made a picture frame using pasta!!!! I got some very satisfying beading done and I enjoyed watching the achievements of others. On top of all that I got wonderful food and boy did we laugh!! Here's to the next one girls - Cheers!!!

Hello and Belated Happy New Year.

Hello Everyone

It has been a while since I posted anything on here for which I apologise, life is now beginning to get back to my version of normal after the big freeze and Christmas.

As almost everyone is now aware we have decided to hold our Wednesday get togethers at The Hub, even though the meeting room is not yet available, this has worked quite well so far, although we did have to split into two groups last week as there were so many of us there. We have our ramps so wheelchair access is possible, as Tina has already proved.

This week Linda has kindly offered to help those interested in Beading get to grips with Peyote stitch, but please feel free to bring your own work to do, if Beading is not for you.

I have booked The Viking Centre in Claxby for our weekend Crafting get together from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th January, cost per person £40.00 for the whole weekend or £15.oo per day. I have run a number of these weekends before and they are always really good fun, bring your bedding and towels, and your own crafting supplies, all the food, refreshments etc will be provided along with a crafty project or two, if you choose to have a go at them.
I need to know numbers for the weekend as soon as possible so that I can organise the catering etc.

Bye for now.

Bee

Hello and Belated Happy New Year.

Let it Snow !!

Hello everyone.

It's been a couple of weeks since I managed to get on here and catch up on what has been going on at the club, I've been rather busy lately but now I'm sitting here in the warm on a snowy evening and it gives me the perfect opportunity....

Last week we had another taste of papercrafting as we created some lovely decorated tree chocolates, adorned with Santas and Rudolphs and choir boys made using paper punched shapes yet again.

Once again everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, maybe it was the chocolate...lol...and for some of us we also had the Knitting and Needlecraft Show at Harrogate to look forward to on Thursday.

This was my first visit to this particular show, held at The International Exhibition Centre in Harrogate, as well as trade stands selling every imaginable yarn, bead, fabric and tools that you didn't even know you didn't need, there was a fantastic exhibition of craft work and demonstations of many varied techniques. I was left feeling that there just isn't enough time to try everything....but I'm going to have a darned good attempt, I really love trying new things out. I came home with some more varigated yarn to make "Those" Scarves and lots of lovely little beads, almost too nice to use, I owe Linda a huge thank you, I think, for pointing me in the right direction to find these little beauties.

Friday morning through to Monday evening saw Kate and I ensconced at The Viking Centre in Claxby sharing a Crafty Christmas (Including a tree and lights, Secret Santa and Christmas Dinner and Crackers) with six other crafters who have become really good friends over the years, although the weather meant that some other people who were going to join us for part of the weekend couldn't make it, we had a lovely time and look forward to the next Claxby event. Kate and I organise these weekends three times a year and hope that there will be more of our local crafters able to join us in the future.

Today I was once again off to Harrogate to take my eldest daughter home, the weather was reasonably kind on our way to Harrogate but closed in on the way home and I was really glad to get home in one piece.

This evening Sylvia telephoned me to tell me that we had had a reply to our funding bid and the good news is that our bid has passed the first stage and we are now required to put in a more detailed submission. Carol (from the Hub)has offered to help us with this, for which I for one am very grateful. One of the things that will help us to get funds for our club is evidence that the club does what we say it does, so letters from members, telling their own stories of what the club means to them would provide very good evidence to add to the bid. If you would like to help with this please e-mail your letter to Stella at the Hub, as soon as possible. e-mail address : rasenhub@live.co.uk

We want to get the bid in as soon as possible, it would be a wonderful Christmas present to us all if we can get the money to buy some equipment for the club.

I'm not sure about getting to craft club tomorrow, the roads out here are pretty awful at the moment, but if I can't make it, I shall look forward to seeing you all soon.

Bye for now

Bee.