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Calling all Crafters – put MHWI on the map

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Next year is the Leicestershire & Rutland Federation Centenary.  There will be a huge, celebratory event at Bruntingthorpe next March.  WIs are invited to submit one entry per group to celebrate the last 100 years (details below).  So, come on MHWI crafters, this has to be one for you.  Interested?  Contact the Craft Group on: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com or come along to the next monthly Craft Club meeting.  You can also speak to Anne Clayton or Val Hitchcox at the monthly meeting on Wednesday, 28 June.

Brenda Barnett Trophy – ‘A Era from the last 100 years 1918-2018 – board (of set size) depicting 3 events, one entry per WI to celebrate the Leicestershire & Rutland Federation Centenary in 2018.  Entry form by 29 January 2018, completed board due early March 2018.  All boards to be displayed at Annual Council Meeting at Bruntingthorpe next March.  Brenda Barnett Trophy 2018  This has to be something for our Craft Group?!

Designer needed for cover for our Centenary booklet

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Budding designers are asked to submit their ideas for an A5 cover for our very own Hints and Tips booklet that Market Harborough WI will be producing later this year.  Each member will receive their own copy.  It will contain loads of hints and tips that make our busy lives easier, as well as favourite recipes.  Ideas, please, by the July monthly meeting.

Fabulous evening lined for Wednesday’s Christmas evening

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We’ve loads lined up to make this a fabulous evening.  Not only is there a superb raffle, with the majority of prizes generously donated by local organisations, there are games to play and handbell ringers to entertain us.

Christmas tree decorations-w500-h500Spend a few minutes before the 17th and make a Christmas tree decoration.  There’s a prize for the best one.

Bring some nibbles to share as well as your favourite Christmas cheer (plus glasses).

See you there.

 

Chocoholics Evening – pure indulgence!

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Pure indulgence!  Superb fun!  That’s the verdict from members and guests of the Market Harborough WI who made the Chocoholics Evening on the 2nd October such a success.

‘A cracking evening, with everyone enjoying themselves’ says Hazel Stacey, President.  ‘There was loads for people to do, including Chocolate Bingo and Chocolate Olympics.  All the games involved chocolate, whether it be a jigsaw, building the tallest tower or icing a cake blindfolded!’
A recent visit to a cash and carry had raided their chocolate ranges!  Then followed a sweatshop evening when committee members sorted and bagged prizes, nibbling any leftovers.  For the Chocoholics Evening prizes formed the basis of various competitions, including Name the Teddy and Treasure Chest.  The first to sell out was Chocolate Tombola.
Several members made gorgeous chocolate cakes and our tastebuds were in heaven as we sampled them and voted for the best one.
Everyone joined in to play Chocolate Bingo followed by Chocolate Olympics.  Players from each team took turns to build a chocolate tower, complete a chocolate bar jigsaw, eat a chocolate mint balanced on their forehead, transfer chocolate ball sweets from one dish to another using a straw and, finally, to decorate a cake with cream and coloured sweets (the trick? – to do it blindfolded!).
Winning team

Winning team

Local stallholders shared their wares.  All were MHWI members:
FarrinHeight Foods, vegetarian catering

FarrinHeight Foods, vegetarian catering

Melody Cakes

Melody Cakes

 Mandy’s Treats (sweet trees, candy bouquets/wreaths) – Amanda McCoy: 07791 883 929.
Mandy's Treats

Mandy’s Treats

Hazel concludes, ‘Off to bed to dream of the chocolate that didn’t touch my lips.’ (A confirmed chocoholic, she is doing a ‘giving up’ fund raising event for work this month.  Not a good time to stage the Chocoholics evening!

Decorate a fish competition

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Members recently took on the challenge of decorating a fish. The Leicestershire Craft Centre in Market Harborough provided a template and entrants could decorate the fish in any medium they preferred, other than clay.  Many entries were on display in Leicester and a selection is due to be on view at the Craft Centre in Market Harborough any time now.

Thanks to Chela Grainge, Committee member for organising the competition and for taking the photos.  They are not all of member’s handiwork, but are too good not to include them!

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Fish Project – a chance to show off your craft skills

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Building on the success of the Jubilee and Christmas bunting competition last year, Cheyla Grainge, Committee member, has come up with another idea – decorate a fish!.

Fish-w500-h500Click on Leicestershire Craft Centre, Market Harborough, to download the fish template and suggestions for decorating.  Basically this can be using any skill you have, such as cross stitich, embroidery, quilting or collage.  The only thing you can’t do is ceramics.  Maybe you could link your theme to the Market Harborough WI?

Bring your finished fish to the March monthly meeting, the 27th.  There’s a prize for the best one.  The completed fishes will be passed on to the Leicestershire Craft Centre, who have granted them an exhibition at the LCB Depot, Leicester from 14th – 20th May 2013 – make a diary note to call in and see the fish selected for display then relax over a coffee in the lounge area.

If you want to know more about the background to the fish project, the link above to the Leicestershire Craft Centre gives more details.