Centennial Celebrations
Thursday May 4th had been 12 months in the planning. It grew from an idea that Barbara had.
Over the months that followed small groups were formed, each beavering away organising their own parts of the event. We had meetings in between to check progress and ideas.
Everyone worked with amazing speed on the day and in 2 hours we went from an empty hall to sales tables, textile exhibitions, members work and demonstrations, needlework collections, costumes, fabulous postcard art, delicious scones and tea, even back ground music courtesy of “The Undecided”. Our Spire picture looked really good. Toni did an excellent job of assembling it. The young embroiderers “Cloak of Visibility” was hugely popular as it was paraded around the visitors.
Barbara had said to me the week before that she was worried about the number of people that would visit!! When the doors opened, she must have been delighted – there was a queue waiting to come in!!
The Dowager Duchess opened our festivities and as always she was immensely popular. She stayed over her allotted time, being interested in all the displays and asking many questions. The Duchess also enjoyed a cup of tea and scones along with everyone else.
Our other special guests, the Mayor of Chesterfield and his wife, Chris Berry Chairman of the Guild were also made very welcome.
Embroideries were presented to the Dowager Duchess and Chris Berry. The Mayor received a beautiful arrangement of flowers. Chris went on to cut our special “Making Visible” cake, which, by the way, was delicious!
The whole afternoon was buzzing, and was an excellent opportunity for Guild members to have a chat- we don’t often get the time to do that!
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