Hello and Welcome to the Hub Craft Club Blog.
Congratulations if you have found us.
The Hub Craft Club is now a month old, although due to a disastrous flood at The Hub in Union Street, Market Rasen, we haven't yet had the opportunity to get together there, although restoration work is going on even as I type this and we hope the Hub will be back to normal very soon.
The Idea for the Hub Craft Club came originally from Ges Soutter of Patchings, a patchwork studio and workshop based in the Hub, following a chance conversation about the lack of a general craft club in the Market Rasen Area with Stella Tuplin (Hub Administrator), Anne Skelton, and Barbara Hancock (Paper crafter & Independant Stampin' Up! Demonstrator ), way back in the spring of this year. Ges and Barbara then took the opportunity to spread the word about their own crafting ventures and canvass people who attended The Market Rasen Gardener's Fair in June of this year regarding interest in forming a craft club, and the rest as they say is history.
The first meeting of the club on Wednesday 9th September found Anne, Ges, Stella and Barbara at the Studio of C&G Partnership, at 1:45pm wondering if anyone else would come and join them, then to our astonishment people began to arrive and introduce themselves and the club was a reality with more than 14 people in attendance.
During the first meeting we each talked about the crafts we enjoyed ....(are addicted to) things we had tried in the past .....(almost every craft you can imagine), where we lived, and how much we had been looking forward to getting together to craft with a group of like minded people. Then Barbara got everyone involved in a couple of Paper craft projects, an Owl Fridge Magnet and a little gift bag, a cup of tea or coffee and the two hours had flown, our fist meeting was over except to decide what we would do the following week.
Week Two SHOW and TELL
We decided that for our second meeting we would each bring a project or two to show the rest of the group and something of our own to do if time allowed, we would then have a better idea of what people were actually making at present and get ideas for crafts that people might like to try out...... Including beading, sugar craft, and even kniting with strips of old tee shirts !!!........ This made it to number one project for everyone to try in week three. Again the time flew and before we knew it, it was time to pack up and go home, already the feeling of being with friends (or fellow craft addicts) was evident.
Week Three TEE-SHIRT TRAWL.
A trawl of all the local charity shops during the week, our crafty cupboards, attics etc brought to light enough Big Knitting Needles and old teeshirts to allow everyone who wanted to, to have a go at this quick and easy way to recycle old tee shirts into useful and desireable? objects, rather than consign them to the rag bag. Lots of chatter and laughter accompanied our first efforts, with promises to bring the fruits of our labours to show everyone next week. Linda offered to initiate us into the art of beading and told us what we would need to bring with us the following week.
Week Four BEADING FOR BEGINNERS.
Can it really only be the fourth time we have held The Hub Craft Club? It is beginning to feel like we have always known one another, lots of chatter and laughter before we got down to the serious business of learning to create a spiral staircase bracelet using tiny seed beads, to be fair this project was not suited to all, not everyone was a complete novice to beading or they felt they didn't have the eyesight or dexterity for this project and the light (or lack of it) didn't help either, but after Linda produced some lager beads more people were able to give the project a go, and the afternoon was still enjoyable for everyone. Linda was an excellent and patient teacher, but soon it was time to go home, although not before we had chance to see the wonderful sugar paste flowers that we will attempt to make next week. We also discussed the idea of a Blog to help keep us all in touch with what is happening, where we are meeting etc, until the Hub is properly available for use, and what we are doing each week. This way anyone who misses a week can still find out what is going on, and what they need to bring to the next session.
So here is the Blog. Please use the comments facility to let us know what you would like to see included, help us to make this your space as well as ours.
We will try to put pictures of what members have made, project instructions, and details of any up and coming workshops on here, please let us know what else you would like to see.
NEXT WEEK:
Sugar paste flowers. meeting in the church rooms in the market square, you do not need to bring any equipment for this session.
Well that is enough from us for now.
Take care of yourselves.
Bee and Ashlea
