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Belton Project 2018

This page has been created to provide a resource for photos to help with the Belton project - photos taken by many members, including work in progress, etc.

July 2018















June 2018





May 2018


Layers of Stitch
Embroiderers’ Guild Grantham
 
Creative Women Exhibition  
Belton House, Nr Grantham
25th May 2018 onwards
(until the end of the National Trust Season)

Featuring Textile and Embroidered work inspired by
Lady Marian Alford, her work and designs.



          












Names of members of Layers of Stitch who have contributed to the
                               embroidery for Belton House:

                                       The Parasol
                       put together by Carole Wright

Sunflowers                                                                    Blue Flowers
Dreda Farmer                                                               Kay Carne
Penny Gibson                                                               Jenny Fay           
Diane Marriott                                                               Ros Griffin     
Kate Pike                                                                      June Heycock  
Gwen Williams                                                              Joy Kitchen


                                       The Mannequin
              dressed by Annette Cooke Marion Fraser and Margaret Beattie
                                    and contributed to by


Joan Asken                                         Kaye Mundy                            
Sue Cork                                             Kate Pike
Pam Dawson                                       Ruth Walton                              
Marion Fraser                                      Sheila Willatts
Penny Gibson                                      Gwen Williams
Marian Jackson                                   Carole Wright                                                      

Other pieces:

Cushions –  Sandi  Macmillan-Bunn x 2, on chair
                    Michelle Maloney – in glass case
                    Dorothy Short – in glass case

Pin Cushion, needle case, and panel – Mary Bomphrey; Assisi –type embroidery, image taken from one of the chairs in the Yellow Bedroom.

Dorothy Short - two wall panels, one of which is by the fire-place;
a bag, which is in the tall glass case, along with the other wall panel.

Dorothy Short  -  2 small panels of Crab-apples – image taken from the fire-screen in the Yellow Bedroom,  which are mounted in the large gilt
frame, along with a sunflower by Marian Jackson. Free machine embroidered.

The Fan – Michele Maloney.
Silk Fan with free machine embroidery – design board included.

 Deirdre Collins – Thistle, in frame, inspiration taken from an image on the piece designed for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

Wendy Walder - Blackwork Crab Apples – worked in red,
accompanied by sketchbook.

Ros Willis - design taken from one of Marian Alford’s colourful embroideries, worked in neutral colours, in box frame.  Design work in portfolio.

Lucy Marsland – yellow and blue flowers and leaves in Irish flower crochet, in box frame.

Francesca Robinson – Leek-type embroidery, in embroidery frame.

Marion Fraser – small blue flower embroidery, similar to those on the parasol, in embroidery frame.

Sue Cork – two fragments from the bed-hangings in the Yellow Bedroom, including Marian Alford’s monogram, framed in blue.
Carole Wright – two fragments, one a monogram and one of the ribbons on the piece which was originally for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and not used, framed traditionally.
Both of these hang over the mantelpiece.

Sue Cork – tapestry Heron with frog in its beak, taken from one of the tapestry chairs in the Yellow Bedroom.

Jenny Fay – two framed pieces of clematis on green silk, and  sunflower/chrysanthemum on brown satin, mounted as a roundel.

Gwen Williams - flower wreath on Indian brocade, mounted on orange/red silk.

Kate Pike – wall panel ‘a faded rose’, using background technique learned in a recent workshop at the local Embroiderers’ Guild,
and framed piece – goldwork flower with spider.

Joy Melton – Sunflower in a box frame.

June Heywood – Small velvet bag, random smocking technique.

Kaye Mundy – Sunflowers in a pot, mounted on yellow silk.
















Embroiderers’ Guild
National
Celebration of
Stitch
Layers of Stitch, Embroiderers Guild Grantham

Come and join us
Saturday 4th August 2018
The Orangery,
Belton House
           Nr Grantham

Join us and add a few stitches to a piece of embroidery.

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April 2018


































20th March Workshop






March 2018, meeting and progress





















February 2018, meeting and progress









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January 2018 Work in Progress









Images from Belton
  
Lady Marian Alford 


































































































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