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Peninsula Crafts Society 2009 Autumn/Winter Exhibition
Peninsula Crafts Society are staging their 14th Exhibition of
Crafts
Ipswich High School for Girls, There will be the usual abundance of Crafts from Renowned Local Craftspeople and Guest exhibitors at this splendid location, built in 1776 as the home of William Berners. It is now the home of Ipswich High School for Girls. As always, most of the craft items on display will be for sale, including beautiful patchwork quilts, weaving, woodturning, including an array of unique hand made salt & pepper mills and many more wonderful items, too numerous to list. There will be a well-defined shop area for the sale of all basic craft items and, of course, those items, which form the central part of the exhibition, will be available for collection at the close on Sunday. Guests will include - Karen Clixby (Collage), Ann Lawson (Textile artist), Carol Lacey (Beadwork), Suenna Harley (Porcelain) & a representative from the RSPB (Bird tables)Admission will cost 50p, to include a catalogue listing the various exhibits, with brief details of the relevant exhibitors.We, the members of the Society, look forward to welcoming many of our regular visitors and hope to meet some new friends.
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Saturday, 31st May
2008
After our most successful exhibition
ever, at the Ipswich High School for Girls, last November, the Society is
preparing for a "hands on" working exhibition to be held in Chelmondiston
Village Hall.
This will give visitors an opportunity watch our members demonstrate their
skills and to have a chance to purchase something freshly made!
Meanwhile, a report on the last Show!
The last Show was the weekend of
2nd to 4th November at Ipswich High School for Girls, at Woolverstone and was,
according to our many visitors, the best yet. Certainly the income generated by
sales and from the raffle, exceed all expectations.
There were many new exhibitors, and one, not listed in the programme, was Jean
Pattle, who maintained a fairly non-stop demonstration of spinning, showing
visitors how to produce skeins of wool, ready for knitting, straight from the
wool fresh from the back of the sheep! A most fascinating display and much
appreciated by the public.
Karin Wheals departed from her usual exhibits of stitched and woven items to
some very attractive pictures made from pieces of broken glass picked up from
the beach, as below:-
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One of our guest exhibitors also showed an originality of thought with her 3 stitched wall hangings, which were designed to remember the slave trade, as shown below:-
Many of the "usual suspects" supported
the show with the high quality that is now expected from them, with Lee Smith
moving into the field of hand made pottery clocks - working of course - and Jill
Hodgson's 3D wall hangings in plaster relief and paint were, as always, greatly
admired. Peta Jane Gulliver, Linda Haylock, Marianne Brame and Catkin Freeman
produced a variety of hand made jewellery, in different and contrasting styles
but all to their usual high standards and wood was turned, carved and shaped
into a variety of shapes by Mark Caudle, James Edgell, Brian Fitzsimmons and Gus
Govett.
Maggie and Helen exhibited some lovely quilts, Glen Gerrard showed some thought
provoking items of machine stitching and our other guest exhibitors
supported us with a great variety of very high quality items.
All in all, this was a most satisfying and successful show.