Masterworks: Abstract and Geometric opens in Houston at International Quilt Festival

Mended World is one of the 29 art quilts on display in this exhibition which will tour the world until 2020.
Judy Martin and her local community on Manitoulin Island Canada created this meditation panel  2009 - 2012

The fabrics are donated and thrift shop linen damask table cloths and new silk
hand and machine constructed by many hands
hand quilted by many hands

View all the works in this exhibition through a slide show  available here.
Judy was asked to make an audio file about this piece.  Listen to it at this link.

November 3 - 5 2017 at the festival in Houston 

slow stitch continues

Slow Stitch continues every Thursday between 1 - 4 pm at the United Church Hall in Little Current, Manitoulin Island.  Currently, there is no common project.  We are just bringing our own stitching and connecting with each other.

Judy Martin leads the group when she can.

When Judy is not able to be at Slow Stitch, one of the group opens the meeting place.

This post shows the variety in the work brought in between September and November 2015.

 Karen finished her moon piece.

 Maureen visited Scotland over the summer and purchased this plaid fabric.

Siska has several projects under way.  Above, she uses fabrics that she has woven together in combination with crochet, cheese cloth, eyelet stitch (detail)

Siska's project b is a watery table runner for her wooden canoe.

Jocelyne made a kantha from dyed fabrics over the summer

Jocelyne also has several projects.  Above is one of her pieces that uses domestic cloth.  It's hard to tell from this photo, but there are two embroideries of a tree, one of them on sheer fabric overlay.

 Jackie put quilt blocks appliqued when she was a teen together with modern fabrics.

 Sally uses silk that she has dyed with plants and prefers raw edge applique

Judy is making a small picture inspired by a 1796 Swedish folk embroidery

Join us on Thursdays if you are in the area.
The United Church Hall is on Robinson street, down town Little Current, Manitoulin Island Ontario.
Email Judy Martin if you have a question about attendance.

local paper covers slow stitch meetings

The Community Circle Project lives on
with new Slow Stitch workshop series
Manitoulin Expositor Wednesday April 1, 2015
by Robin Burridge

The Manitoulin Circle Project - a four panel fiber project created by Island women over four years under the leadership of Manitoulin artist Judy Martin - may have concluded last year, but a new off-shoot workshop has started teaching the stitches from the panels through the creation of individual meditation panels.  "The idea for the (Slow Stitch) workshop series came from the community," explained Ms Martin.  "After the circle project ended, some of the women who participated (over 140 were involved in the original project) were asking 'what's next?"  learning what an impact the project had on the participants lives and sense of community, it inspired me to work with the community again in this way and teach the stitches from the meditation panels for individuals to create their own."

Slow Stitch started at the Little Current United church (the host of the circle project and where the panels are displayed) in February and runs weekly on Thursdays from 1 - 4 pm.

"There are no rules and people can drop in whenever" explained Ms Martin.  "You can start whenever too, you don't have to have been coming since February.  Also, it is free, I'm just asking people to bring their own materials."  Slow stitch, or "slow cloth" as it is commonly known, is a term defined by fiber artist Elaine Lipson, noted Ms Martin.  She said that Ms Lipson's 10 requirements for slow cloth include joy, contemplation, skill, diversity, teaching, materials, quality beauty, community and expression.

The Manitoulin Community Circle Project consists of four panels:  Layers of Time, Mended World, Precious Water and Earth Ark and was born out of an assignment Ms Martin was working on through the Julia Caprara School and a course she was taking in liturgical embroidery.  The stitches being taught by Ms Martin from the panels include French knots, chain stitch, St. George's cross stitch, eyelet embroidery stitch and packed stem stitch to name a few.

Diana Parrill was one of the women participating in the workshop last Thursday when the Expositor stopped in.  She explained that she had been part of the circle project briefly, but that due to other commitments , hadn't been able to participate on a regular basis.  "I have more time now and I'm pleased that I can come and work on a piece at my own time and pace," she said.  Marueen Armstrong added that she had been in the same boat as Ms Parrill and was also pleased she had more time to participate in the new workshop series.  "Judy is an inspiration" Ms Armstrong told The Expositor.  "I've really been enjoying this"

Joceyln Sobeski traveled from Espanola to attend last week's session as well.  "I plan on making the drive as often as I can" said Ms Sobeski of the Thursday workshops.  "I'm constantly evolving as an artist and I want to see fiber art in a different way, through Judy's eyes." Jan Stenschke also made the trek from off-Island to attend a session.  Ms Stenschke said that a fellow artist learned about Judy's slow Stitch workshops online and thought it would be interesting.  "I like to try new things" added Ms Stenschke's friend Carmell Tidd.

Ms Maritn said she is also using the workshops to help prepare for a course she's teaching at Fiber Arts Newfoundland 2015.  "My course is on the meditation panels," said Ms Martin.  "I will be bringing the panels with me in suitcases from the church and teaching a course over three days on how to design and make a meditation panel."  As for Slow Stitch, the workshop series is open ended and ms Martin urges anyone who is interested to drop by the Little Current United Church any Thursday from 1 - 4 pm to learn more or try their hand at fiber art.

SLOW STITCH begins February 12

 

Interested in hand stitching?  Come to the Little Current United Church Hall on Thursday afternoons and join us as we practice the variety of stitches used in the fabrication of our meditation panels.  Instruction or review of the many improvisational and traditional techniques is where we will begin.  You will be able to take your work home if you like and if you miss a week or are not able to start just now, not to worry.   The weekly event will be organized so that everyone can work at her own pace.   1 – 4 pm every Thursday.   

Judy Martin, lead artist for the successful Manitoulin Community Circle Project, has volunteered to teach the hand stitch techniques and demonstrate her methods of design.   

EDITED July 20 2015:  Judy will not be teaching the methods on regular basis, as she is away so much for family reasons.  Slow Stitch continues however, and when Judy is able to, she will attend the meetings with pleasure and with needle in hand.  

EDITED August 6 2015:  It seems that Slow Stitch has slowed down to a stop.  Maybe it will resume in the fall.   x   

EDITED February 1 2016:  Judy Martin is not attending Slow Stitch at this time.  Thanks to everyone who came out for a year. x  

Each participant will be gently encouraged to create an original meditation panel for her own personal use.  Sponsored by the Little Current United Church, this event is open to the wider community.  It is not necessary to be a member of the church or to know anything at all about sewing. 

 Please bring a notebook or sketchbook plus pen/pencil.  You can wait until the second meeting to bring your fabrics and threads if you like.      FEBRUARY 12 2015 is the first meeting, but it is possible to start at any time.   This is a DROP-IN event and it is FREE!

Fabrics:  bring approximately one metre each of two solid colour fabrics that you believe look good together.  These can be any type – cotton, linen, silk, wool, re-cycled table linen, re-cycled clothing.  Ensure that the weights of your chosen fabrics are similar.   Threads:  bring two or three skeins of cotton embroidery floss that co-ordinate with your fabrics.  Also bring sewing thread that matches your fabric and a sewing kit (needles, scissors).

Contact Judy Martin 705 368 3819 or Julia McCutcheon 705 368 3101 for more information or email Judy at judithemartin@gmail.com

Keynote Address, Espanola fibre festival

detail, Layers of Time  The fourth panel of the Manitoulin community circle project.  Materials:  re-cycled wool blanket, recycled lace doilies, linen damask, beads, french knots, cross stitch, back stitch, eyelet stitch, all by hand, completely constructed with hand stitch and quilted by hand.  Judith e Martin and community, 2013.

 

Earth Ark (left ) and Precious Water (right) installed in the Espanola United Church for the Espanola fibre festival

I’d like to speak tonight about the process of making .  I want to state my belief that making something slowly with one’s hands is perhaps one of the most nourishing things one can do.  Creating something from nothing – or better, creating something new from something no longer needed or wanted is healing for the planet and for us.   

The panels of the Manitoulin Circle project are now finished objects.  It seems that every few months they are invited ‘out’ and the women who made them and I are given a chance to re-visit them.  We re-consider them.  We reflect.  

The Marimekko secret back of Earth Ark in foreground, Layers of Time in background

These panels are different than my personal work.  They are larger.  They are more.  More hands, more touch, more laughter, more conversations, more personal trauma, more catching up on books or television series.  The process of making them is held within them, and is why the finished products seem so important.

I’m a dyer and I'm learning about local Manitoulin plant dyes.  I'm a stitcher and am attracted to work that is not only large in measurements, but also in length of time.  I like it when I can’t see the end of a project, and when I can’t touch the edges.   My work is about the  process of making it. 

Two women thinkers I’d like to remark on tonight.  The first is Sue Bender, author of a book called Plain and Simple, a woman’s journey to the Amish.  She lived with an Amish family for 6 months, and noted that the women treated everything they did as if it was a ritual.  Whether breakfast for the family or a stunning jewel toned quilt – everything was given respect.  Art making is connected to daily life. 

The second woman is a British metal smith who writes and thinks about slow craft as social change.  Her name is Helen Carnac.  Helen Carnac calls making things by hand and experiencing the nourishment that comes from creating for its own sake rather than for commercial purposes   a  ‘social revolution‘.   I haven’t used those words before about hand work and am struck by them.

Marimekko secret back of Precious Water (foreground) and Mended World (background)

One week ago Friday Thanksgiving weekend, I was stitching by the fireplace.  It was raining outside.  I realized something.  I realized that ALL I really want to do is stitch.  All I want to do is hold cloth and mark it.  I love it so much.   I’ve been pretty busy with the career side of my work in the last month  - speaking about it, writing about it, promoting it on facebook, receiving awards for it, shipping it to exhibitions, getting it into urban commercial galleries so that more people can see it, perhaps buy it,  but in reality, that all comes second for me.  I just want to DO the work.   I just want to stitch.  The career stuff won’t be there anyway if the work didn't come first.  The work needs to be done, not just for itself, but for me.  For my emotional health.  I need to do it.  It’s who I am.  Last week on that rainy evening by the fire I stitched and realized that the process of the making is as important as the end result. 

The nice  thing about textile art is that it is possible for others to see the process.  It’s not as mystical as some other art media.  The process is evident.  The hand’s gesture is evident.  So go with that.  Take pleasure in what you do.  

Mended World, (left), Trinity (centre) and Layers of Time (right) installed in the Espanola United Church for the fibre festival.  Also notice the book of hands open on a table in near left of photo

My passion has always been stitch.  I've stitched nearly every day since I was about 8.  Stitching is a life-long love affair.  As I get older I worry less and less about making a product that others might like, and more and more about spending what time I have left to dye and stitch on a large scale.  I will be teaching the techniques of the project in Newfoundland next October, and have started to prepare for that.  It’s really challenging to fit four years of slow making and a life time of inspiration into a three day workshop that people will actually pay the craft council  of Newfoundland to take.  The prep is taking quite a bit of time but perhaps it’s like writing this speech.  Both make me look at the circle project again.   Re-considering how the panels went together and what the project meant is helping me to think through what and how I want my life to be like.  Artful.

I am ambitious and have the dream to be recognized for my stitching but it’s way too easy to let the career advancement become more important than doing the work.  Doing the work is the most important thing.  Take great pleasure in the doing.  Slow down, breathe, stitch, dye, knit or felt, whatever it is that you do, do it with respect.  Honour the experience. This is my motherly advice tonight.  

The above text is just part of Judith e Martin's keynote address to the Espanola Fibre Festival.  If you want to read the entire lecture, email Judy and make a request.
One of the nicest things that happened that evening was that several of the participants spoke spontaneously about their experience stitching with Judy. 

Meditation panels installed and dedicated in Little Current United Church July 20, 2014

This article appeared in The Manitoulin Expositor, July 23.  It was written by the editor of the paper, Alicia McCutcheon


"Come and find a quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed"  the congregation and choir of the Little Current United Church sang during the dedication service of four richly textured, large pieces of community-made textile art that have come to be known as meditation panels at last sunday morning's church service.

In 2009, when textile artist Judy Martin first met with the group of church women who would advise her abut a community artwork project she proposed (Barbara cranston, Marion Henry, Mary Marg Walsh, Julia McCutcheon and Rev. Faye Stevens) they told her about the mandate of the United Church of Canada, the ideas behind Manitou Conference and the mission statement of the Little Current United church.  Ms. martin was getting background about the place that would house her proposed Circle Project for the next four years, hosting weekly stitching groups that became so much more and would eventually become the final home for the four works of art created.  Oh, they added, "We like to sing."

"Yes, you do love to sing, Little Current United church," Ms Martin said during the dedication service, following the hymn.  "Your singing is joyous and full of life.  You sing in so many ways - pie baking, yard sale minding, plant selling, fish dinner preparing, attending church regularly, caring deeply."

Ms Martin shared that the project had its origins as a theoretical exercise for a course she was taking at the time in liturgical art.  It was ideological in its origins, but her vision was to make it a reality.  "When the Manitoulin Circle Project morphed from being something that only had to be an idea on paper (for the university) into something that this church would actually carry out, I can't recall," she said.  "My liturgical course was finished in october 2009 when we started stitching.  I went on to study other courses for that degree and graduated from it in London, England in June 2012."

"This particular project was all theoretical for the university."  Ms Martin continued.  "It did not have to actually go ahead for me to receive a mark --- but it did go ahead.  It went ahead from September 2009 and continued on.  That was not me.  That was you.  The many people who supported the idea of a wider community coming into this building to work together and create contemporary art using materials rich with past domestic ritual.  That was you, little Current United Church.  That was you, dear women and men who placed their hands on this work every week for four years."

Ms Martin's proposal, made in August 2009, stated that the project would take two years with the installation planned for 2011.  The panels were finally finished in 2013, four years later,  (taking two additional years of steady stitching by many hands) in time to meet a deadline for the Thunder Bay ARt Gallery where the four panels went on display last September and then on to the  Art Gallery of Sudbury in the winter.  After a brief stop at their home at the church, the panels will again be on the move with at least four more tours, but this church, Ms Martin said, is their home.  Over the weekend, the church and the panels were also a stop on the Manitoulin Art Tour.

She explained that the panels were made for this particular church, and for those particular walls in the sanctuary.  They are meditation panels, she said.  "Perhaps they work best if you are alone with them, seatedin one of the pews, feeling their accumulated touch.  They are also intended to work when you are together as a congregation, helping each to listen to and meditate on the ideas presented during the service."

The wall behind the choir, which houses the cross, is a bright blue and this colour appears in all of the panels.

"The design element of the circle that is in every panel is one of the simple shapes that Carl Jung identified as being within the collective unconscious" Ms Martin shared.   "Every one.  Every. One.  Around the world, from all periods of time, understands this shape.   She explained that the circle represents wholeness and completion.  "The circle is the most natural shape.  It is perfect.  Because there is no beginning or end of a circle, it represents eternity.  The circle also refers to the circle of women who participated in the construction of these pieces every Thursday.  Manitoulin Island is  a circle.  The earth is a circle."

The square, the shape of the panel, represents solidity, boundaries.   "If the cirlce is heaven, the square is earth."

The panels all contain a message of environmental appreciation, Ms Maritn continued, as they were made with donated and thrift shop damask tablecloths and domestic textiles such as lace doilies, women's handkerchiefs, and wool blankets.  Their titles are intended to raise awareness about caring for the earth.  "Earth Ark.  Mended World.  Precious WAter.  Layers of Time."

"One thing that handmade items do is hold time.  They catch it."  she continued.  "Those four years of time are caught in these panels and saved for future generations to appreciate.  The people who touched and worked on these pieces, who even just walked by the quilt while it was in the frame in the church hall, will look at these panels and remember something about this particular present time in our lives and in the church's life."  This is life affirming work.  To slowly make things by hand shows faith that there will be a place for these things in the future."

Artist's talk at art gallery of sudbury opening reception for mended world

My career as an artist has had the swift passage of time as a constant theme.  This started when I became a mother.  It was my children and how beautiful they were in the sunlight and the realization that they were changing so quickly that made me paint them.  Time's passage was the subject.

Time.
How to stop it? Catch it?
How to slow it down?
How to make it visible - sometimes time whirls by so quickly , we don't even notice
How to remember it?
How to honour it.

This exhibition is connected by time.
There are two floors, and each floor represents four years of time.  They actually represent the same four years.  The upper floor is me, going through the four years day by day, living a quiet life out there by the lake, or traveling to see my children marry.  All that whirl of time is contained with the slowest way of making a mark.  Hand stitch.

Time time time
Touch touch touc.

On this floor is the work of the Manitoulin Circle Proejct.  although the intent of these panels was not to mark out four years of visible time, that is what happened.

Every Thursday, for four years between October 2009 and August 2013, a group of us met in the United Church Hall in Little Current and hand stitched these pieces together.  That's over 200 Thursdays.

That time commitment alone is amazing.  Altogether, 144 different individuals put their hands into the work of this project, and that is also amazing.  Most of those were visitors - people who would come out once or twice to see what was going on and add a few stitches.  There were about thirty who I would have to say were regulars, and I see many of them here today.  Thank you for coming.

We had a kind of mantra.  "We're not fast - but we're slow"

These panels were hand stitched.  That is a very quiet way of making art.  It is a very slow way of making art.  Stitching uses the body's gesture. It uses the sense of touch.

These panels wer emade with textiles from past times. Used linen table cloths, woolen blankets, lace doilies in combination with new silk and new threads.  All the materials were donated.

We started with the Earth Ark panel in 2009.  We started with the green silk squares.  This was the only part that I was absolutely sure about.  Working with the fabric is different than working on paper.  Things change.  As the knots on the silk squares accumulated, we could see that we had made not only the lower half of a circle, but an island with planted fields.  And it looked like a boat.

Like Noah's ark, all of these panels are about saving.  They take the reparation of the earth as their subject.  They use recycled cloth and are made by hand, slowly and carefully.  Many individuals came together to make them for the wider community of Manitoulin.  What we have made will outlast us.  These are for the future, heirlooms.  Life affirming meditation panels.

The titles of the four panels are Earth Ark, Precious Water, Layers of Time and Mended World.

We signed in each Thursday.  Showing the book with the first 89 signatures, and reading the journal entry about feeling as if I belonged to the community.  Like in Babar the elephant king's well planned cities. Reading from October 2010.

There are several of my ladies here today.  Please come up with me to the front.

The second book of signatures - reading from September 2012 about what the circle project has given us.  Camaraderie, healing.   We continue and continue...


For a review by the Manitoulin Expositor about the opening of Mended World....click here.

Mended World Installed

Mended World, the second of the Manitoulin Circle Project panels, was installed in the Little Current United Church in early June.

96" x 96", it is the largest of the four panels. 

Hand and machine pieced, recycled linen tablecloths and new silk fabrics,.   Hand quilted. For more information about this community stitch project, click here.

INSTALLED

October 30, 10 am
Little Current United Church


Judy will give a short presentation about this meditation panel, the first of four, as part of the morning service.

Manitoulin Art Tour
Judy will be displaying three of the four panels of the Manitoulin Circle Project during this year's art tour. As well, she is giving a sneak peek at Not to Know but to Go On, one year of stitching (so far) an installation that will be displayed Janurary 2012 in the Art Gallery of Sudbury.

Shown above Earth Ark,the first of the panels which will ultimately hang in public places on Manitoulin Island after touring in exhibition.

Manitoulin Art Tour July 15, 16, 17, 11 am to 4 pm
80 artists all across Manitoulin Island
Judy's studio is above the post office in downtown Little Current
14 Water Street

Manitoulin Circle Project

On December 12, 2010, Judy spoke about the Manitoulin Circle Project during the Advent service at Little Current United Church.


Earth Ark was displayed.

The first of four meditation panels that are being made by Judy and the local community every Thursday in the church hall.

Flesh and Blood

overdyed fabrics,
hand applique
100 inches square

Published in this week's Manitoulin Expositor
(November 24 2010) with the following text:

NOVEMBER IS WOMAN ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
It is every woman's fundamental right to live in safety and security in her home and community.

Special thank you to Judy Martin for sharing her work in support of woman Abuse Prevention Month, sponsored by Manitoulin Family Resources (MFR) and the M,Nidoo Minissing Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

MFR Crisis Support and Information
1 800 465 6788
705 377 5160
emergency 911

Manitoulin Circle Project




Judy spoke about the
circle project and led a
workshop to participants. This was part of the regional conference
WORSHIP MATTERS, held in Little Current, Ontario September 27 - 30, 2010.

Manitoulin Community Circles
Starts Thursday October 29
noon - 8 pm
Little Current United Church

Article by Jim Moodie in the Manitoulin Expositor - October 14 2009

There's a time to rend, and a time to sew. This is one of the latter: On October 29, local fabric artist Judy Martin will be holding the first of many weekly stitching bees for an ambitious new undertaking that will involve the creation of four large tapestries to enhance the contemplative timbre of religious services at Little Current United Church. To realize the liturgical wall hangings - each will measure 90" square - Ms. Martin is counting on the help of many hands.

"It's a little daunting, because it is a very large project," she said. "This is partly why, if the community is willing to help, it will be good for me. And I love the idea of making something for the community, by the community."

The idea grew out of an assignment Ms. Martin had to fulfill for a fine art degree in embroidered textiles that she's taking through the Julia Caprara School, accredited by Middlesex University in England. "Liturgical embroidery is one of my courses, and I asked Reverend Faye Stevens to help me out," she said. "I did a presentation for the congregation and they were excited, so it got me excited, and it's grown much larger than it actually needed to be."

The artist has already completed the designs for each of the four pieces - there will actually be five, as she's also creating a smaller work, known as a 'fall' to decorate the pulpit - by rendering the images in acrylic, ink and watercolour on 24" square pieces of paper.

Each of the bigger wall fabrics will be distinct in appearance, yet follow the same design motif of a circle within a square. Ms Martin explained that the symbol goes back many centuries, reaching further back even than Christianity," yet lends itself to a holy purpose as well as reflect the local landscape.

With the circle representing the sky or firmament, and the square a building, the two together suggest a church - a place in which heaven is brought down to earth and embraced. In two of her designs, the circle is bisected by a lateral line, which suggests a horizon with sky above and water below. "That seemed like a really good thing to have for an island setting,: she said. Three of the pieces will contain a cross symbol.

Along with the minimalist designs, the colours will be relatively simple - white and cream, connoting purity and celebration, will dominate, with some splashes of blue and gold.

The fabrics include recycled damask tablecloths, linen handkerchiefs, wool blankets, and silk, and all of this material will need to be hand-stitched. "We'll be re purposing all these beautiful, domestic textiles into lustrous, meditative, mainly white wall hangings," Ms Martin enthused.

Anyone is welcome to don a thimble and lend a few fingers. "It will involve a lot of embroidery stitching as well as foundation piecing and reverse applique," said the artist. Later, once the tops are done, I want them hand quilted, and some people might like to come for the quilting part." she added.

While the focus will be on completing this time-consuming installation, Ms Martin said the experience should also allow for an exchange of ideas and techniques. "I'll teach some skills as needed, and I hope that during lunch breaks I can also look at other people's work and give feedback," she noted. "I'm sure everyone will have a lot of ideas, and there are a lot of women in Little Current and the surrounding area who are technically better than me, so they will teach me something too."

Helpers need not be sewing pros or even United Church parishioners, although many of the latter will likely be the most inspired to take part. "It can be experts or beginners, and it's open to anyone in the congregation as well as the wider community," said Ms Martin.

Stitching sessions will be held each Thursday, beginning October 29, from noon until 8 pm at the United Church hall, although it isn't essential that volunteers ply a needle and thread for that whole eight hour period. "I'm committed to be there for that time, but I'm just asking people to spend an hour or an hour and a half, whatever they can" said Ms Martin.

The artist feels the collaborative process will be a new adventure for her. "I work alone, so this will be different for me," she said. "It actually may be a break through for me personally. As much as creating a product, this will be a process of being together and the labour we all put into it."

The realization of these spiritual art pieces will not occur overnight. Hand stitching is a painstaking process, as is hand-quilting, and the works are anything but small. Accordingly, Ms Martin expects that it will be June of 2011 before the hangings are complete.

Her thought, subject to input from the church, would be to install the finished work at Little Current United for the summer and early fall of 2011, then exhibit them at a gallery in Thunder Bay and possibly at other galleries through 2012. Ultimately, she expects they would find a permanent place on the walls of the local church that inspired their creation and for which they have been conceived.

Those interested in contributing to this project are encouraged to contact Faye Stevens at 704 368 0835, Julia McCutcheon at 705 368 3101, or Ms Martin herself at 368 3819.

Manitoulin Community Circle Project

On September 13, I made a presentation about this project to the Little Current United Church congregation during the Sunday service.

The project is to make four large square pieced
and embroidered textiles, each
with a large circle contained
within a large square.

These are to be liturgical pieces to aid with meditation during a formal religious service. They will be made over a period of nearly two years by Judy and members of the community of Manitoulin.

Most materials will be recycled domestic textiles such as damask tablecloths, wool blankets, linen handkerciefs. New silk will also be used. The method of construction will be hand stitching.

Every Thursday
noon till 8 pm
Little Current United Church Hall
Begins October 29, 2009
Continues until 2011.

Phone Judy, Faye Stevens or Julia McCutcheon for further information.