The Sampler Guild
'Forthcoming Events' Page
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If it happens in the sampler world, it happens here first!
Welcome to the Sampler Guild 'Forthcoming Events' page - We are now planning events in 2008, 2009 and even 2010!
For details of the 2009 Gathering of Kindred Spirits Retreat, please scroll down to the bottom of the page.
The Sampler Guild has a constantly changing programme of events such as 'Meet-ups' (attending exhibitions, classes etc. as a group) and 'Get togethers' (meeting at TSG members houses) throughout the year, across the U.K. and sometimes abroad. 'Meet-ups' are free unless admission charges or class charges are incurred. 'Get togethers' are completely free, just get there and bring something to eat. If you are thinking of arranging a 'Get together' or 'Meet-up' in your area, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can notify other TSG members, both on this page and in the TSG Newsletter. See the bottom of this page for more information. This page will change frequently so please remember to drop in and have a browse every now and then.
Remember for comprehensive coverage of what's happening, check your newsletter.
Write an article, receive a subscription to "The Gift of Stitching" online magazine
We have 9 annual subscriptions to give away for the online magazine "The Gift of Stitching". We have decided to give these subscriptions to the first 9 TSG members who submit an article that is accepted for publication in the TSG Newsletter.
This is not a competition, but we feel that it is the fairest way to distribute these subscriptions, so get your thinking/writing caps on and have a go! Perhaps you have a sampler in the family whose history you wish to share, or you have recently attended a sampler related event that might be of interest to other members for future reference? Send your articles to Linda and good luck...
2008 Pulled Thread Challenge
We are now ready to start
taking names for the 2008 Pulled Thread Challenge. We are looking for
12 volunteer designers and anyone who wishes to join in by stitching only. All
the information will be sent to those wishing to participate as soon as they
express a wish to join in and the first design will be issued at the beginning
of July 2008.
The challenge will take the form of a square sampler made up of 12 small blocks
of pulled thread work. These can be stitched around a central motif or
on their own - the choice is entirely the stitchers. As usual ground fabric
and thread, along with the colour of these, is a personal choice.
The basis of this sampler has been devised between our Technical Advisor Katie
Trendell and Lesley Gilderthorp, who produces beautiful pulled thread work.
Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Linda via email or telephone.
Carrow House - Norwich
Also you may like to update the website in case
folk are thinking of visiting thro' the summer. Carrow House will not re-open
until the Autumn. An audit of the 20,000+ items in the collection and
replaciment of them from store rooms has to be done, plus updating the facilities
for research, meetings and access to the collection, including an entrance into
the magnificent Victorian conservatory. While this is going on there will not
be anyone available to answer queries or make the collections available.
Will keep you posted as to progress but should be worth waiting for!
Thanks for that Phillipa
Meet-up - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Our trip to Northern Ireland was a fantastic success and TSG will definitely be going back!
We flew out to Belfast on
Friday 16th May in the morning. TSG member Jenny Meegan collected us from the
airport and very generously cooked us all a meal on Friday evening. On Saturday
morning we visited the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, where Valerie Wilson
showed us some wonderful samplers. We visited the Linen Museum in the afternoon
courtesy of transport provided by Roselind Shaw and Jenny Meegan. Sunday was
going to be a free day but Roselind very kindly showed us her collection of
quilts in the morning and provided lunch, and in the afternoon we did the open-topped
bus tour around the city - fascinating!
We flew home very tired but very
happy on Sunday evening.
A short trip but one that I know everyone enjoyed thoroughly. We must say very special thank you's to Jenny Meegan, Valerie Wilson, Roselind Shaw (and hubby) for feeding us, running us around and sharing their time with us.
Meet-up - A joint fund-raising venture between Erna Hiscock Antiques and The Sampler Guild
The Sampler Guild had a wonderful day at the private viewing of approximately 400 samplers at the home of Erna Hiscock and John Shepherd in Ashford, Kent on Sunday 22nd June 2008. Thank you to Erna and John for their hospitality and the excellent lunch they provided. Al lovely day and the Hospice benefited as well!
Quilts in Time: Journey from Bed to Wall - 7th June to 28th September
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Get together - Saturday 28th June
The Sampler Guild booked 'Spinning Jenny' (near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales) for a Get together on Saturday 28th June. We had a wonderful day, the location being very quiet and in the middle of stunning countryside. We had a fantastic turn-out with TSG members coming from Scotland, Sutton Coldfield, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Leeds, Derbyshire, London and the USA - OK, so Denise is in the UK for a while... Anyway it was so good, we are going back in September - see below.
Get together - Saturday 12th July
Get Together at Janet's house in Harrow on Satuday 12th July. Starting around 10.30 am and finishing at 4.00 pm or thereabouts. Usual format including lots to say and show, and not enough time and ears! If you are lucky, you may even get some stitching done... Bring a plate towards lunch. Everybody welcome - any questions or to obtain Janet's contact details please contact Linda direct.
Meet-up, Museum of East Anglian Life - Stowmarket, Suffolk
The Museum of East Anglian Life will be holding it's next combined Steam and Rural Crafts weekend on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of August. They are hoping to have a wide range of displays, demonstrations and stalls, both indoors and outside across the whole 80 acre museum site. This has always been a lovely event and well supported by TSG members. For more information please look at www.eastanglianlife.org.uk and/or contact Linda.
Needlecraft Show - "Stitches", Bakewell, Derbyshire - Press Release
"Due to popular demand Wye Needlecraft will be holding a Needlecraft show on the 9th and 10th August 2008. During this 2 day show, which is sited in a beautiful location close to the banks of the River Wye, we are expecting 4000 to 5000 people to attend. This will be a fun and exciting show for all needlecraft enthusiasts. The show will exhibitors of various needlecraft products.
As of today we have coming, DMC + Demonstrations, Groves & Banks featuring Dimensions, Popcorn, Vervaco & Rug kits, London Bead Company featuring the Caron Threads, Daylight Company, Craftwise, Moira Blackburn, Trinity Xtras, Turnstyle, Auscraft, Beardie Designs featuring Gloriana Silk Threads, Northern Lights Chinese Silks and Drawn Threads Charts & Kits, Coats-Craft/Anchor, Heritage Craft, Jacksons of Hebden Bridge, Historical Sampler Company, Bothy Threads, Bedfordshire School of Needlework, The Sampler Guild, Tatting & Design, Cobweb Designs, Textile Heritage, Heritage Craft, Guild of Master Craftsmen, Flemish Tapestry, Benson & Johnson with Nicola Hilton from the Royal School of Needlework and so many more..... just in The Nutmeg Company will also be joining us.
Also they will be showing one of their projects about the premature baby knitting that their shop has been involved with. So far they have been able to post out 1850 garments to over 30 special care baby units around the country in 4 months and they hope that many of these hospitals will be visiting the exhibition during the 2 days.
All of the knitting has been done by shop staff and volunteers, so this will be a big thank you to them and hopefully they will find new knitters who want to help."
The Sampler Guild have been very kindly invited to attend, and we will have a stand where we can display examples of TSG members work and talk to visitors about The Sampler Guild in general. We look forward to seeing you there!
Get together - Saturday 16th August
Get Together at Marjan's house in Sonning, near Reading, Berkshire on Saturday 16th August. Starting around 10.30 am and finishing at 4.00 pm or thereabouts. Usual format. please bring a plate towards lunch. Everybody welcome - any questions or to obtain Marjan's contact details please contact Linda direct.
Get together - Heritage Centre, Canvey Island
Why not join us on Saturday 6th September at the Heritage Centre, Canvey Island, in the wonderful setting of an old church to meet with friends and fellow stitchers for a day of stitching. Bring along some stitching goodies so we can all see what we've been up to since the last get together there. Please bring a plate towards a lunchtime buffet.
Pilgrim Stitchers 'The Elizabeth Bebell Sampler' - Winchester, Hants.
Practical Needlework classes
and fascinating visits September
9th to 12th inclusive at Winchester,
Hampshire, in the UK.
For more information visit www.piligrimstitchers.org or call Sue Blomley on 02380 849482
Meet-up - Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
We are going back to this
wonderful place on Saturday 20th
September for a picnic visit,
weather permitting. The last visit was so enjoyable, see above for pictures
and details. We will be meeting at 12.30pm
for lunch at 1.00pm. The Cost
is £8.50 to include a guided tour of the Mill and buffet lunch. Here's
your chance to find out what everyone was talking about if you missed out last
time.
The address is : Whitchurch Silk Mill, 28 Winchester Street, Whitchurch, Hampshire,
RG28 7AL
and their website is: www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk
Get together - Saturday 27th September
The Sampler Guild has booked 'Spinning Jenny' (near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales) for a Get together from 10.30am to approximately 4.30pm on Saturday 27th September. We had a lovely day here in June that attracted a really good turn-out from all over the Midlands, the North and even Scotland!
The full address is : Spinning
Jenny
Flashby
Skipton
BD32
3QD
Telephone no.-: 01756 749200
Some of our ladies have already had a morning there, using the drop in facilities that have recently become available. They were the first, and have road tested it for the rest of us and given it a definite thumbs up. We will have a corner set aside for us (or more) depending on numbers, upstairs in the converted barn, complete with a view over the dales. The owner and her assistants are most obliging.
There is a S H O P for all your retail therapy needs. There is a small cost for us to use the facility and we are working on about £3.00 per head, the more that attend, the more we can reduce the cost.
Drinks and home-made biscuits are provided
but you will need to bring your own sandwiches.
What more could you ask for? Come on be adventurous, come and join us
again for what will be a thoroughly enjoyable and unforgettable day among friends.
Please contact Linda for details.
AMERICA'S LEADING SAMPLER AND NEEDLEWORK
DEALER
936 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Tel: (001) 215 627 7797 Web: www.samplings.com
American Schoolgirl Samplers & Their Family Histories
M.Finkel & Daughter are hosting an in-house show & loan exhibit at their premises (for address, see above) in conjunction with "Who's Your Daddy?: Families in Early American Needlework" The exhibition & conference, is taking place between Thursday, October 16 and Sunday, October 19, 2008 - opening times, see below. Please join us for this exhibition and reception.
Along
with samplers and silk embroideries from our own inventory, we are thrilled
to announce that we have the honour of featuring an important loan exhibition,
American family records and related samplers from the renowned private collection
belonging to the founder of antiquesamplers.org. The samplers that will be with us on loan allow an exclusive opportunity
for collectors and needleworkers to admire and appreciate, and from which to
gain an education, which is much of the focus of that website.
The needlework we will offer for sale includes a fine collection of American samplers which will decorate the 2nd floor gallery. Many of these are notable for their genealogy and family histories, and will closely relate to the exhibitions and lectures at Winterthur. Many fine English, Dutch, French and Italian samplers will be available on the 1st floor, as well.
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Sarah Clark, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, circa 1812 This is a splendid sampler, beautifully worked by Sarah R. Clark of Tewksbury, an early town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The skill of the needleworker is very much apparent throughout, but most evident in the outstanding border that frames the sampler so elegantly. Long, lustrous satin-stitches, one of the hallmarks of fine Massachusetts samplers, were used to form the large blossoms, leaves and vine; a white bow punctuates the bottom with well-placed four red buds allowing for further embellishment. Sarah worked a numerical progression on a fully worked background panel (this appears just under her birth date), a technique found on other Massachusetts samplers. A couplet praising virtue and mental beauty was carefully worked in very small letters underneath the alphabets. This sampler is accompanied by an impressive amount of genealogy and research, including original family wills and inventories from the early 19th century. Sarah’s ancestors had settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1630, at the time of the Great Migration; her great-great-great-great-grandfather was Jonas Clark (1619-1700) a ship builder and navigator who lived in Cambridge where he was a highly respected town leader, selectman and ruling elder of the Church of Christ. His son, Thomas Clark (1652-1704), Sarah’s great-great-great-grandfather, was a graduate of Harvard in 1670 and continued in the family tradition of leadership and service as a long term minister in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. (He was a great-grandfather to John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, by his daughter Elizabeth’s marriage into the Hancock family.) Sarah’s parents were Thomas Clark (1766-1827), a farmer, and his wife, Mary Rogers Clark. They lived on land that had been in the family for many generations, where they raised 8 children. Sarah notes in her stitching that she was born “Sept 26 AD 1798” and included a 14 at the end of her scripted alphabet; we feel certain that this indicates her age at the time she worked this piece. Interesting to note is the family record sampler made by Sarah’s sister Nancy Clark (link) in 1818 which is also available on our site. In 1822 at age 24, Sarah married a carpenter, Bartholomew Richardson of Woburn, Massachusetts. They became the parents of five children and remained in Woburn, where Sarah died after 1870. The sampler descended in the family for generations along with the family papers. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted in a black molded and painted frame. |
Charlotte Frye, Andover,Massachusetts, 1811 Worked in 1811 by Charlotte Frye of Andover, Massachusetts, this splendid sampler boasts strong composition and outstanding color and contrast. A hilly lawn forms the base for little trees and potted plants and flowers with splendid blossoms on vines growing out of a pair of baskets and forming the side borders. Alphabets, a cautionary verse and Charlotte’s inscription are all worked in carefully formed black stitches; a stylish and well-proportioned black and white framework forms a handsome border on three sides. The strongly vertical nature of this sampler was carried over from the design of 18th century samplers. The vital records of Andover, Massachusetts, an early town on the Merrimack River, 20 miles northwest of Boston, show the birth of this samplermaker, Charlotte Fyre, in 1797. She was the first born of Peter and Hannah (Noyse) Frye who had been married there in 1796; this branch of the Frye family had lived in Pembroke, New Hampshire for much of the 18th century, removing to Andover upon the 1762 marriage of Charlotte’s grandparents. This sampler was made when Charlotte was 14 years old and exhibits the competence of a practiced needleworker. Miss Frye lived her life in Andover and the adjoining town of North Andover. She did not marry, lived as an adult with two of her sisters, Susan and Miranda, and died in 1874. The sampler was worked in silk on linen and is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into an early 19th century gold leaf frame. |
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We look forward to having you at our shop, on Historic Antiques Row, for wine and refreshments. For exact location, parking information, and directions see our website. For any questions or further information, please either email us or call - see above.
Thursday, October 16, 12-8 PM
Friday, October 17, 12-5 PM
Saturday, October 18, 12-8 PM
Sunday, October 19, 12-5 PM
2009 Retreat of Kindred Spirits Update
Our next Retreat of Kindred Spirits takes place at Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria from Sunday 22nd March to Sunday 29th inclusive, March, 2009. New pictures on TSG 'Retreat' page now!
We are pleased to announce that Lauren Sauer from the USA and Alison Snepp from Australia will be among those teaching classes. Lauren will be teaching two to three classes that have yet to be finalised due to her heavy teaching commitments, and Alison will be teaching two classes. I hope to get some photographs on the website of Alison's projects in the next day or two, they are stunning!
The Sampler Guild's technical adviser Katie Trendell will hold classes that you will not wish to miss and Helen Prescott is teaching a Layer Cake and/or a Jelly Roll quilt class.
All classes will be held in the spacious and well equipped Old Laundry Room. To see more information and pictures of this splendid room and Muncaster Castle in general, please visit www.muncaster.co.uk
As well as the classes there is a day trip planned to Dove Cottage, the home of William Wordsworth, where we will be given a private viewing of the textiles at the cottage! We will be making our own way there, as we have enough cars with spare seats available.
There will be a trip on the famous L'al Ratty railway, a favourite of everyone.
There is also a special dinner booked out at a local hotel one evening, so we can all relax and leave our stitching at the castle.
So lots to be getting on with, lots still under discussion, but you can be assured that there will be lots of choice for our stitching connoisseurs out there...
The cost of the Retreat of Kindred Spirits
is £445.00 and includes all of the above along with 7 nights bed and breakfast
and 2 buffet evenings.
All classes are an optional extra and details and costs will be posted as soon
as we receive them. All classes during the retreat welcome those who would like
to come and take part in the classes, but are not retreating
for the week. Individual class prices are available on application.
We are fully booked and holding a reserve list at the moment, should you wish
to add your name to the reserve list, please let me know. To enable a firm booking,
a deposit of £50.00 must be paid by the end of April 2008. For those who
have their name on the list and haven't paid a deposit by this date, we will
have no alternative but to offer the place to someone on the reserve list. Once
the deposit is paid, payment for the Retreat of Kindred Spirits can be made
in instalments through the year, if this is easier for you.
If you have any questions or require any further information, please don't hesitate to contact linda.
Please note! 'Meet-ups' and 'Get togethers' are exactly that
- they are an informal way of getting TSG members to meet each other. 'Meet
ups' take place to view exhibitions or specific events and 'Get togethers' take
place at a TSG members house (usually on a Saturday) and involve 'show 'n' tell',
helping each other and lots of friendship and fun! These events
are usually free - except for admission charges (where applicable) for 'Meet-ups'.
For' Get togethers', members normally bring a plate, a food dish - usually dessert....
All
TSG members are always welcome - just let Linda know if you wish to
come along and she will give you the details.
It's your Guild - use it!
Please note that many more 'Forthcoming Events' are featured in The Sampler Guild newsletter.
Membership
For details of how to join The Sampler Guild please visit the following page TSG 'Stuff'
If it happens in the sampler world, it happens here first!
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E-mail: linda@thesamplerguild.co.uk
Telephone: 44(0)1628-785338 Fax: 44(0)1628-675580
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