November 2010 meeting and Bagshaw House Exhibition

Our exhibition has moved to Bagshaw house museum, and looks beautiful. It has been fascinating seeing how the exhibition has looked in a variety of rooms from white painted walls as at this museum, to the very historic rooms at Tolson Museum. Each curator has also chosen to select a slightly different choice of rugs and tools, and hung the exhibition in different ways, which has made the exhibition come alive again. All the museums have been very pleased with the visitor reactions to the exhibition.

It would not be the lead up to Christmas without the group working on decorations. The lower pictures show the stages in making a cone Christmas tree, the upper images are some small wreaths, which could even be hung on the Christmas tree, and a swag made with ghiordes knot along strings.

This portrait was worked on at the Reeth rug retreat, and is still to be completed, but it is fascinatiing to see how the shading works here.

This circle is one of a number which will contribute towards a wall hanging for the new Baildon Community Centre. Each circle represents a local group.

This rug was made by knitting the central portion on a chunky knitting machine, and then padding it, and then working the edges in proddy.

This rug attempts to copy an old rug I was shown while running a workshop.

Each piece is knotted after pulling through rug canvas with a spring hook.