Nelson Creative Fibre Group

26/02/2025

Ruth Elmey shared her slow stitching skills and brought along some of her work to show group members at our Tuesday workshop.

11/02/2025

Knit and natter Tuesday 11th February.
A great turn out at the Golf Club this morning.
Lovely to see everyone so enthusiastic and lots of projects in the making.

29/01/2025

A great first meeting for 2025.
Lots if chatter and the scones at The Honest Lawyer were delicious.

26/01/2025

This Tuesday 28th January our 1st get together for 2025 Honest Lawyer meet 10am

18/12/2024

We enjoyed our Relaxation Day at Teapot Valley Christian Camp this week. This is a nice day out in the countryside where we can relax, eat, share stories and check out what others are making. Heather Miller have a short talk about her exquisite embroidery.

26/11/2024

Tue 26th November
We had a lovely morning making fabric flowers with Sherry and Yvonne at The Nelson Golf Club

12/11/2024

We had a lovely morning today stitching on Fleur’s Stitched Blooms project. So many flowers , stitched by so many different hands from around the world.

01/11/2024

WHATS COMING UP:

12 November - Golf Club Cafe
Fleur Woods with her Stitched Bloom Project.

26 November - Golf Club Cafe
Sherry making Christmas flowers with us. Sherry will provide all materials. Box for gold coin donation for materials to be available. People can bring a stick to use as a stalk grape vine wood is good or anything that size.

10 December - Back bar Golf Club Cafe
AGM at Nelson Golf Club cafe back bar

17 December - Teapot Valley
Relaxation Day at Teapot Valley

Anne and Sherry are looking for donations for the raffle to be sold at the relaxation day at Teapot valley.

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25/10/2024

If you are in Nelson before 23 November pop into Refinery Art Space in Hardy Street to see the most beautiful and colourful crocheted art work ever. Entitled “Waka of Dreams” it should encourage us to dream big.

02/10/2024

Coming Up
8 October – Workshop with Dana Pratt – embroidering on fabric
22 October – Knit and natter
12 November – Fleur Woods will bring along her stitched bloom project. We may be able to do stitching on this too.
26 November – Making Christmas flowers with Sherry
10 December – Annual General Meeting
17 December – Teapot Valley Relaxation Day – embroidery display – Heather Miller and cushion display from various members.

Meeting 8 October – PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE– Dana Pratt will be presenting a workshop and will bring along small embroidered images which will be embellished with colour and hand embroidery. Once finished they will be able to be put onto a cardboard backing.
Dana will provide a kit which will contain a small embroidered image. The cost for this is $3.50 please pay directly to Dana. Members will need to bring:
 A medium/small watercolour brush
 A small embroidery hoop if you have one
 Embroidery supplies, threads, silk ribbons, needles, scissors, etc.
 Stitch instruction book if you want. Dana uses basic stitches, eg, chain, cross and straight stitches.
We will be using the “art nook” in the Golf Club café for this workshop.

Teapot Valley Relaxation Day
Please remember we are asking for donations for raffles, and also if anyone has baskets, or similar,
which would be appropriate to put raffles in, these would also be appreciated. Give any donations to
Ann or Sherry.

10/09/2024

Looks worthwhile

New range of wool in stock. Red Hut 8 Ply 100% Pure wool from Woolly. $4.00 each

09/09/2024

Meeting 10 September with visit to Broadgreen House
We will meet at our usual time at the Golf Club café for a knit and natter session. We
suggest you stay and have lunch at the Golf Club café and then at 1 pm we will meet at
Broadgreen House where one of their staff will be giving a talk on historical (and
dangerous?) fabrics and showing us around the house. (Please don’t bring your own
lunch to the café, but purchase your food from the cafe.)

01/07/2024

Spinning and then even knitting with Lego! Seen at the Brick fair in Palmerston North.

26/06/2024

We had a really fun morning yesterday painting stones. Who thought this would be so much fun and relaxing. Thanks to Robyn our tutor.

30/05/2024

Hi, I’m a rookie spinner and recently bought some fibre from Tally Ho in central Otago on recent trip south. To cut a long story short, after speaking to my aunt an expert spinner she advised that it was the wrong fibre for my project. I was wondering if anyone in the group would like to buy it from me. I paid $78, would sell for $75. Pickup Marybank Nelson 02108785210. Thanks Diane

29/05/2024

To the Members of the Nelson Creative Fibre Group
Many thanks to you all for attending and contributing to our Craft Day in the Lakehouse on Thursday 16th May.
We had a fantastic day mixing with the other groups and seeing what they are doing.
$520.00 was raised on the day to go towards “Hands up for Hospice” so well done!
Regards,
Sherry Bishop, Susan Holland and Heather Miller

16/05/2024

This is a very quick reminder that on 28 May there will be no meeting at the Golf Club Cafe. Instead we will be gathering at the Refinery Art Space in Hardy Street to view the Changing Threads Exhibition. Please be there by 10 am as Ronnie Martin is booked to give a floor talk starting at 10 am.

After that, those who wish can go around the corner in Church Street to the Tern cafe for a coffee, or whatever.

23/04/2024

Great day today one group making small felt animals and birds and the other doing needle felting thank you Davina