Happy Mothering Sunday

The traditional name for today is not Mothers' Day, but rather Mothering Sunday.  It dates back to Victorian times when the people who worked at the 'big house' (and usually attended the local church with the Master and his family) would travel to the big church in the area (the Mother church) for today's service.

It was spring, and they knew they would see their mum for the first time maybe since Christmas, so they picked flowers along the way to give to mum

No picking flowers today, but lots of making at Sunday school: I didn't get a photo of *all* of them, but thanks to Sizzix and some of the Crafty Church Kids we made enough of these for everyone in the congregation, with these left for you to admire!

Happy Mothering Sunday x

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Crafty Church: Mothering Sunday

Everyone is welcome to the Horton and Wraysbury churches' Mothering Sunday services, but I'd especially like to invite the Crafty Churchers to the St Michael's service, and hope that the kids can come too for our Mothering Sunday Craft Extra.

PS Please note there will not be a Sunday School session at St Michael's on Easter Sunday, 20th April


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Crazy Chaos at Chertsey

We had our March session at Cherstey Museum today, and we were having a go at Crazy Patchwork - we were mostly using velvet, but there was plenty of cotton scraps mixed in with the cotton scraps, plus ribbon, lace, buttons and assorted embellishments, as well as the usual scissors, pins, and threads.  Add to that we had 10 ladies - Chaos!

I'm loving the colour schemes the ladies chose:

Want to know what we're doing with them?  Come back and see next month - or come and join us at Chertsey Museum on Friday 25th April

Benta@SLIKstitches.co.uk

Crafty Church

Lovely to see so many regulars at Crafty Church yesterday: some of the show and tell or being created items include

And we welcomed Paula for the first time: she came to see what it was all about. I gave her some felting to do while she sat and chatted,

And by the end of the afternoon she had made these three flowers

 

and was planning how to make leaves, how to combine for brooches, and when she was going to the craft shop to buy her own felting equipment!!!

Another one to the dark* side! (*dark, medium and light values!)

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Pillowcase Tote Bags

Chertsey Museum hosts an occasional Bring a Bottle and A Friend sewing evening - Tonight we were making tote bags from pillow cases, some of the ladies wanted more precise instructions than I was giving, but the wine did help them losen up!!!!

So they had this as their sample

And a choice of pillow cases, and they got sewing

 

and managed seven very presentable finished, or almost finished, bags

 

And a few empty bottles!!!!

 

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Sunday Sewing

The idea behind Crafty Church (at St Michael's, Horton, third Saturday of the month, 2 to 4) was to use crafts to bring people into church.  But a bit creative thinking brought another Crafty Church project into being.

At one of the House Groups associated with St Michael's and St Andrews (in Wraysbury; we share a vicar) we have used church to bring people to crafts !!!

The groups meets fortnightly and we have started sewing while we chat!  This week I have assembled the blocks we have completed so far: assembled and quilted  - a great team effort!