At our next meeting on 18th June, we are delighted to be joined by Harriet Vine MBE FRSA, co-founder and creative director of Tatty Devine, the jewellery and design company with a shop in Brick Lane. She is also currently on our screens, as one of the craft expert judges on Channel 4’s The Fantastical Factory of Curious Craft, which concludes on Sunday 14th June.
We will again be meeting via Zoom, starting at 730pm. The link will be sent out nearer the time to our shorter list of members and friends. If you don’t think you are already on this list, and would like to be included, please let us know by replying to this email.
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Before then, at our coffee morning on Friday 12th June at 1030, we thought it might be interesting if participants came with a tinned food/store cupboard recipe. To help use up some of the overstocked/unusual items we may have hanging around, or have brought more recently, just in case...
There will also be a coffee morning on 26th June.
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Following on from last month's lovely meeting I thought you might be interested in Lydia's blog, with a link to Cordwainers' Grow as well:
Joined-up drawing
I bring the same curious-minded approach to illustration as I do to design.
So when I was asked to run a Zoom workshop on flower drawing for East End WI, we found ourselves looking at – well – looking! Drawing a flower is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with it and to notice something about it that we might not have seen before.
But it didn’t stop at drawing. The workshop was designed to create pieces that could be sent to members who embroider, joining people up in lockdown.
Unexpectedly, it was picked up by Cordwainers’ Grow in Hackney, whose Cordwainers’ Dye project experimented with the sweet pea drawing using natural inks and then embroidered it using donated threads from Edible Rotherhithe (lower two pictures).
One drawing, contributors from three London boroughs and bonus colour from plants.
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