Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2023. Here is a round-up of our forthcoming activities for January (and beyond!) Monthly Meeting Our monthly meeting on Monday 9th January should be very interesting. Bob Sinfield is talking about The Gag Trade. We will be having a raffle, so don’t forget to bring you money The competition of the month will be to provide a cracker joke. … Continue reading January Activities and News
Eight members met for a very enjoyable and productive craft group meeting. We made several different Christmas cards, many from recycled items. Janette showed us a simple, but effective technique of a stitched tree with beads. Ann demonstrated making a box, also from old Christmas cards, and some members produced pretty boxes with motifs on the lids. These would be very useful for small gifts. … Continue reading December Craft Group
On Thursday 8th December we have the Brockenhurst Group Carol Concert starting at 2pm at St Mary Magdalene Church, New Milton. If you would like a lift to this event, please contact us to arrange this. On Friday 9th December 2pm we have our final Craft Group Session of 2022 at Carole’s house. We will be Christmas card recycling. All welcome. Please contact us for more information and for … Continue reading December Activities
On Friday 2nd December, Brockenhurst WI had a stall at Brockenhurst Christmas Fun Evening selling the decorations that our members and the craft group have been busily making since September. On the night, Janette set up the gazebo and Jane and Christine K set up the stall. A rota of members manned the stall on the night and as always its was a great team … Continue reading Brockenhurst Christmas Fun Evening
November has one again been a busy month for Brockenhurst WI. Our craft group and members have worked hard making Christmas decorations for our Christmas Stall at the Brockenhust Christmas Fun Evening. The bandage makers have continued to be productive to help Ukraine. Our lunch club members braved the elements to have lunch at the Hare and Hounds in Sway. Brockenhurst WI laid a poppy … Continue reading November Round-Up
Our craft group have continued to work hard making Christmas decorations for our stall at the Brockenhurst Christmas Fun evening which is taking place on Friday 2nd December. Carole hosted the first session. Corinne hosted the next session and work started on making a Christmas Tree for the competition amongst stall holders at the Fun Evening too. Julie hosted an additional session on Monday evening … Continue reading November Craft Group
Our member Kim offered to teach members of Brockenhurst WI Craft Group how to make a Patchwork Elephant in aid of The Children’s Society. We gathered with our sewing machines and equipment and got et up. Kim showed us the pattern and demonstrated how to get started. We set to work cutting and sewing. By the end of the day we had got material on … Continue reading Patchwork Elephant Craft Workshop
Here is a round-up of our forthcoming activities for November: On Monday 14th November we have our monthly meeting. The theme is Christmas & Celebration Crafts, with a demonstration by Annette Williams. It will be held at Brockenhurst Village Hall arrival from 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Annette will will have kits for sale, so bring money with you if you would like to purchase anything. Janice … Continue reading November Activities
Twelve ladies from Brockenhurst WI got together to make stars under the expert tutelage of our member Jayne. We had some preparation homework of cutting the material into 4 strips then folding and ironing it so we were all ready to go! Jayne demonstrated the processes to us in stages. Firstly we learnt how to lay out the strips to get started Then we learnt … Continue reading Star Making
The Craft Group continued to work on making Christmas decorations for our stall at the Brockenhurst Christmas Fun Evening on Friday 2nd December. Anne N, Corinne, Gina and Kim continued to sew to make a variety of decorations. Carole, Maureen and Julie painted the salt dough decorations that were made last session. Maureen has also been busy knitting. This is what we produced today: It … Continue reading Craft Group 28th October 2022
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