December and Decorations

The December session of Crafty Church was dedicated to making Christmas Decorations:  Not brilliant photos, but a fun afternoon

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Kids' Crafty Church

This weekend just gone was Kids' Crafty Church:  From a random assortment of resources they came up with some great ideas: innovative ones as well as some traditional ones!

Little people always seem to love gluing!

Learning to kit

Teaching me how to use loom bands

yay for stickers

Chains from half straws, taking advantage of the bendy section

A new version of bunting (using the other half of the straws)

 sewing and sizzix!

The next one is the Saturday before Christmas - I'm already looking forward to it!

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Crafty Church Catch Up

Back in February one the regulars at Crafty Church (hello Janet!) showed us this completed quilt

Since then she's been working on other projects including a hexi quilt, but this month she brought along another quilt: the same design as the flowery one above, but SO different

Isn't it great!  She also made three matching cushion covers

And Lynn has been working on a Hungry Caterpillar cushion: last month we basted it before she had to rush off, and she's been hand quilting ever since, and on Saturday we finished it

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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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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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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!

Creative Community

We had Kids' Crafty Church this afternoon - a great turn out, and a lovely afternoon.

Craft, creating, making - how ever you think of it, Art is very therapeutic, and we all needed it after the rain, storms, flooding and evacuation that we have experienced this last week.

"Without ART, EARTH is just EH"

I think I managed to get all the fab artistic creations on camera

Sewing . . . 

Beading

And Hema beading

Fun with pipecleaners and pompoms

Card making

and lots of cards thanking the soldiers for saving our villages 

 And we even got the mums being creative too

A great way to spend a Saturday afternoon!!!!

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