Golden Hinde Blog

Hello everyone, welcome to our blog. This is our supa dupa new website and we would appreciate any comments from you if things are not spelt right or dont look right. We are going to try and keep you all informed of our whereabouts, what we have been up to, pictures of groups we have been to see, so it should be a really interesting time.

To kick it off I have put a few older newsletters on, so you can get a feel of how we are going to be doing our blog and get to know us.


NEWSLETTER December 2008

Welcome to the Golden Hinde newsletter. What a lovely busy year we have had, so much has happened. Lives have changed forever with the arrival of a baby boy.

 

NEW ARRIVALS

Never mind new kits we have had a new baby this year and as I am sure you will understand we cant do both.

We have called him John Clifford. Mum has got her new title of Granny and Jim is now called Tiad (that’s Welsh for Grandad), needless to say they are both overjoyed.  He is now 6 months old and has been a wonderful baby. We are really lucky, he is sleeping 12 hours at night and as you can see from the latest picture is very smiley.

 

NEW BOOKS

This has been a great year for new goldwork books. We have started stocking:

All that Glitters by Alison Cole

Goldwork Embroidery by Mary Brown

The A-Z of Goldwork

The latest addition to our collection is

THE MIDAS TOUCH

By Alison Cole  .

This is Alison’s second book featuring the techniques of Goldwork and Stumpwork. This lavish soft cover publication continues in the style of her first book having sections dedicated to Basic Supplies and Requirements, Techniques and eleven projects – ranging from small beginners pieces to larger, more challenging designs.

We have become the sole distributor for her book in this country.

 

NEW KITS             

Due to circumstances beyond our control ( namely a bouncing baby), we have not produced any new kits this year.

There is light at the end of the tunnel and I am getting the whip out again. We have a proposed kit for next year in the form of THE DRAGON and 4 smaller kits, with some charts being made available for our beginner day class designs.

COURSES

We have two new courses this year our part 3 course in Or Nue and a 2 day course on the Chrysanthemums or Lupins


COURSES cont...

We have had a busy year travelling around the country with Dad standing in while I had the baby, he was full of fun and the ladies enjoyed his patter.


We have a special memory of the homemade cake in Rochdale and our second class there was delightful as the previous weeks ladies brought their work in for us to see. We always enjoy seeing work that has been produced in class.

 

The ladies from Oswestry area also brought their work for us to see.

 

We would like to thank all the rest of the groups we have visited during the year, all of which made us very welcome. We have enjoyed meeting some great characters

 

SHOWS

We have just come back from Alexandra Palace and Harrogate and in our opinion these are the most interesting shows with wonderful showcases and people.

 

People like Diane Bates, a fantastic designer, with a vivid imagination and a skill to match.  Jean Littlejohn, Jan Beaney and their fantastic works. Fabulous stump work from Barbara and Roy Hurst what a display of work and techniques. Ruth Issett and her sea of floating coloured hangings as bright as Ruth herself, just some of the people we met, how lucky we are.

 

 

 

PRICES

Our prices have remained the same for the past four years, but unfortunately due to consistent price increases from our suppliers we have had to put our prices up.

 

THE FUTURE

We are hoping to update our website this year and put some feedback from the lovely ladies that have written to us, a Q&A section. Also put some of the gorgeous pieces of work that have been produced by our ladies this year and pieces of work you have done if you can produce a good scan or picture.


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