Monthly Meetings 2025

8 January, 2025
Zoom only
7pm – 9pm

Shelley Rhodes

Creative Journeys

Shelley’s textile work takes inspiration from Kantha making and Japanese Boro in which she combines layers of distressed, pre-used cloth. Techniques of piecing, patching and mending are employed as well as folding and trapping, hiding and revealing.

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12 February, 2025
Zoom only
7pm – 9pm

Rachael Singleton

Curiously Captivated

A presentation about themes that have stayed with me over recent years and al little of my textile journey.

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12 March, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

Saroj Patel

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Saroj works with a range of materials rooted in Indian traditions as well as found items to create structure. Working intuitively, she creates organic shapes with materials such as Sari fabric, bells, glass beads, old clothes, steel, and ceramic beans.

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9 April, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

AGM

Followed by …

Stitch project/social or similar; attendance raffle for £20 voucher towards a workshop?

Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie die, imitation and rosettes, 2nd half of the 10th - 15th century AD

14 May, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

Michala Gyetvai

The Poetry of Materiality

The inspiration for Michala’s work comes from landscapes and the paintings are then translated into textiles.

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11 June, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

Jane Caven

Drawing with stitch

Jane has been fascinated by textiles, and embroidery in particular, since childhood.

Jane is currently engaged in making textile and mixed media images.

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9 July, 2025
Iffley Village Hall
7pm – 9pm

Summer Social

This is an in-person event so you will not be able to join via Zoom. Always an enjoyable evening when we bring along examples of our work, share a supper, and generally get to know each other better.

13 August, 2025 Iffley Village Hall
7pm – 9pm

Stitchalong

Following the success of last year’s Stitchalong, join us at Iffley Village Hall for an evening of Stitching Fun!

Details to follow.

10 September, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

Heidi Fenn

From Denmark to Denham

Heidi is a felt and fibre artist, creating jewellery and wall art from pure sheep’s wool and mixed media. To bring her art to life, she embellishes her felt with beads, embroidery and other natural materials such as horsehair.

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8 October, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

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12 November, 2025
Iffley Village Hall and Zoom
7pm – 9pm

Oly Bliss

Oliver Bliss Textile Artist

Oliver Bliss, a contemporary textile artist, discusses his creative journey, focusing on the intersection of art, craft, and materiality in his practice. His talk delves into how he explores themes of identity, heritage and sexuality through fabric manipulation and free motion embroidery. Bliss shares insights into his process, which involves both intuitive and methodical approaches, and how his work invites viewers to engage physically with texture, layering, and color, creating a dialogue between the viewer and the material through individual and collective projects. Throughout the conversation, he emphasizes the role of textiles in expressing personal narratives and emotions, blurring the line between fine art and craft.

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10 December, 2025
Zoom only
7pm – 9pm

Sarah Waters

Ancient Art for the Modern Day Living

Sandra has long been inspired creatively by nature and ‘a sense of place’. Using photo imagery, drawing, painting and collage as starting points, her stitched textile and mixed media work has evolved in many different directions over the years.

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