Singleton Embroiderers Guild group

On Tuesday and Wednesday Singleton Embroiderers Guild group welcomed me back to teach Portuguese Whitework. A couple of years ago I did a Mountmellick workshop with them, which they greatly enjoyed. It was lovely to see several of the completed projects which they proudly brought along to show me!
Our Portuguese Whitework class got off to a slow start, partly because (as planned) I caught the train up from Sydney in the morning, and part of the way had to go on a bus, due to trackwork (not planned!). That added an extra half an hour to my trip, making it a long 4 hour journey.

It was quite cold, but we got our needles moving on our biscornus. (I can’t say that was really enough movement to warm us much, though!) The sun streaming in was very welcome!

The ladies in the group are very talented stitchers. They produced beautiful work. Even those who said that they were “not counted embroidery people”, did a wonderful job, and you couldn’t tell that it wasn’t really their thing from the quality of their stitching!

Hopefully next time I visit, I’ll get to see a lovely selection of completed Portuguese Whitework biscornus. Thank you to Shirley for your wonderful hospitality, and to Elaine for organising everything and doing all the little and big things to make my trip run so smoothly. Thank you to the whole group for your warm welcome. I enjoyed my time with you all.