Quarto

Three of our members, Ruth , Susan and Jill have been members of Book Art Group Quarto who meet every 3 months in Sunderland for a number of years now. Yesterday, Sarah, Mari and Marise joined us. The theme for our book swap was Serendipity and these are some of the swap books.

2011 Workshops

Just a quick list of our workshops this year...

5 February - a guide to making books
5 March - the spaces in between - colour between letters
2 April - dance of the pen
7 May - creating new alphabets
4 June - backgrounds
2 July - photography and writing
3 September - modern half uncial
1 October - back to basics
5 November - textura
3 December - scrapbusters

AGM and workshop

Last week was the AGM, but it was combined with the postponed December workshop on "The Italic Hand of Edward Johnston". Here are some photos from the workshop.

Christmas Cards

Some of the lovely handmade cards sent/received by NYC group members...on display at the AGM last week.

AGM - 8 January

Just a reminder that the AGM is next Saturday. After the morning meeting we'll have a shortened version of the December workshop (aspects of Edward Johnson & writing his italic hand) which was postponed due to the weather. Please bring contributions for a shared lunch.

I have been writing my thank-you letters and decided to include a little bit of calligraphy too. This is based on an example from one of my favourite books, Lisa Engelbrecht's "Modern Mark-Making". You can get it here and here. You can see more of Lisa's work at her website and blog.

Hope to see everyone on Saturday, and Happy New Year.

Resolutions

How about this for a resolution? Print it out and put it where you need to see it often! I love the layout and it's available in a range of colours. This is a free printable, from here. I found it via Sarah London's blog. There's another good quote on there today too! Sarah mainly blogs about crochet and is definitely worth a visit.