Welcome To Wigan & Warringtons Crafty Friends

A Little Bit About Us:

The Crafty Friends meetups where set up by Myself Jackie, and my friend Sue.

Sue and I met on  Crafts Forum uk ,and much to our surprise found that we lived only 2 miles away from each other in Lowton,Cheshire,UK which is just down the road from Leigh and Wigan.
I wonder how many times we passed each other in our local supermarket over the years.......

We got chatting by emails to start off with, and then started to chat on the phone.
We  chatted about getting a little local craft group together which would benefit all sorts of crafters.We both new that there where a number of card making classes and groups in the local area ,but nothing for a good mixture of crafts.

So after a couple of weeks we decided to meet up in each others houses until we got a good little group of crafters together.We decided as we where a non profit making group we did not want to jump straight into finding a venue and , so the kitchen table is where we have been for the last six months.

A couple of members crafting and chatting together,Anne making her RAG RUGS and Sue making her collection of BOWS.

 ABOUT THE GROUP:

I (JACKIE) love all sorts of crafts and have been crafting since a was a small girl from making my Barbie dolls clothes, to making textile collages and my own clothes when I was a teenager.Over the years I have got interested in so many other crafts including knitting,crochet,felting,papercafting,floristry jewellery making especially crochet wired jewellery .My other passion is upcycling items from around the house, and from unused items of clothes.Carboot sales and charity shops are just heaven for these types of items.

SUE like myself learnt to craft at a very young age and loves various crafts.She has had a go at all sorts over the years from sewing,knitting,papercrafting and card making.

Sues passion is her Pergamono (parchmant) crafting ,which is absolutely stunning she has such a lot of patience to do this style of crafting as it is son intricate.She has been trying to persuade me to have a go ,but I like quicker projects and parchment crafting is definately not fast,you need so much patience for this craft.
Sues work is lovely and her cards make beautiful pictures to frame after your celebration.


ABOUT THE GROUP:

The group is all about socialising and chattting and crafting and usually a lot of chatting,we can be chatter boxes.There is nothing more rewarding than being in a group of like minded people .
We craft, chat, drink tea ,eat biscuits and then some more chat and a little more chat ,you can see where I am coming from ,can't you.VERY RELAXED AND INFORMAL.

YOU CAN BRING ALONG: 

Well of course yourself that is a must ........

We will be having mini demonstrations of various crafts,but of course you can just bring along your own projects to work on while you sit and chat.

Please could you bring along your essential kit if doing papercrafting .
We will have various  crafting items for you to use ,but we cannot provide things such as glue ,scissors etc  as we just do not have the funds to do this at this present time.

The craft equipment that we will be bringing along are all of our own, until we have enough funds to make up a group selection.We will be bringing along ,big shot ,cuttle bug,dies,fancy edge scissors,stamps ,inks and other bits of crafting equipment.

ABOUT OUR MEETUPS:

After a lot of searching, and a lot of let downs with regards to a venue for our craft group, we have finally secured a lovely venue.It is detailed below with times postcode etc.

The parking is great, and has full access and facilties for disabled people.

Church Lane (Lowton) Community Centre,
 243 Church Lane,
 Lowton,
 Warrington,
 WA3 2RZ

It is on the same row as the Co Op shop and just across the road from the Hare and Hounds Pub in Lowton.

TIME: 10.15 AM -12.30 PM 
 These times are just a guide and it does not matter if you can only make it for the first or last hour the choice is yours.

There is a donation charge of £3.50 per person which will help to cover the costs of the room and also for refreshments.This is a non profit making group, and we do not receive funding from anyone at all.

FIRST MEETUP DATE IN THE ABOVE VENUE :
Wednesday 13TH February 2013

If you would like to join us we would love to see you.
If you are planning on joining us for the session we would be really grateful if you could just let us know as we have to lay out the tables, and have enough refreshments available.

Please email either myself jackeanne@yahoo.co.uk or Sue at missdefied17@yahoo.co.uk 


We are really looking forward to making and meeting new friends so until we meeet ,happy crafty days to you all.
Jackie and Sue