The local WI held an extra meeting this week. Every year our WI gives what it calls a Denman College bursary: one year the members draw a raffle to attend a course at the WI college at Marcham and in alternate years the Committee set up an extra educational evening to which all the members can come for free. On Wednesday over 20 of the members shared the annual Denman Bursary by being taught to work with silver wire to make a piece of jewellery. The demonstrators from Corzo&Wood in the Courtyard at Claydon House brought with them a display of silver pendants and ear-rings, handbags and scarves from their shop. We set about trying to tame lengths of silver wire with different kinds of pliers in order to encase a stone to form a pendant. It was very hard on the thumbs but everyone produced a passable pendant with a little help from Violeta and Sarah. It was a most enjoyable and educational evening and of course the refreshments were good too.
A rather depleted craft group met this afternoon. We reviewed the success of our contributions to the WI tombola stall at the Farmers’ Market. This had been masterminded by one of our members. There hadn’t been the number of children visiting the stall as we had expected which meant we had toys left over. We agreed that these could go still in their wrappings but without raffle tickets attached to the Women’s Refuge which the local WI supports. We then discussed the invitation from the local school PTA to help at its Christmas Fair. Fifty knitted teddy bears had been donated to the school but they needed eyes, stuffing and sewing up by the children. It was hoped some WI ladies would be able to give practical advice and be there to demonstrate how to tackle the problem. The thought of perhaps 50 primary children armed with needles and bags of stuffing made some of us turn pale but we are going to give it a go!
The local WI held an extra meeting this week. Every year our WI gives what it calls a Denman College bursary: one year the members draw a raffle to attend a course at the WI college at Marcham and in alternate years the Committee set up an extra educational evening to which all the members can come for free. On Wednesday over 20 of the members shared the annual Denman Bursary by being taught to work with silver wire to make a piece of jewellery. The demonstrators from Corzo&Wood in the Courtyard at Claydon House brought with them a display of silver pendants and ear-rings, handbags and scarves from their shop. We set about trying to tame lengths of silver wire with different kinds of pliers in order to encase a stone to form a pendant. It was very hard on the thumbs but everyone produced a passable pendant with a little help from Violeta and Sarah. It was a most enjoyable and educational evening and of course the refreshments were good too.
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AuthorValerie Alsford has been a WI member for over 40 years. She has been writing a blog on the Buckinghamshire Federation Website for many years but we will put her posts on this site too! To see her historical thoughts please access the Bucks Website. Categories |