Happy Birthday, Needlework New Brunswick! Here's a glass raised to the wonderful stitchers, knitters, weavers, spinners and fibre fans all who make up New Brunswick's fibre community. Your creativity, talent and enthusiasm is amazing!
What started out as a few shared notes on the Web four years ago, has grown into a fun and inspiring network. Together, we share ideas, resources and a common thread of community. However we choose to express our creativity, it's a pleasure to see how simple fibres are combined to build something wonderful.
To mark this special occasion, Needlework New Brunswick has launched its first Supplies and Services directory. Dedicated to the first lady of New Brunswick weaving, Enid Inch, it brings together the places and people where you can obtain materials for your next project. You can download your copy from the NNB site. Enid's passing was a great loss to our community and New Brunswick in general, and she will be sorely missed. Thank you for all you have done for our province, Enid, and we hope this directory serves as a small token of our respect and admiration.
In a second tribute to New Brunswick history and to encourage more people to pick up the needle, NNB has launched two new prizes this year. Partnering with the 110-year-old Kings County Agricultural Fair in Sussex, we are offering the Golden Needle prize and the General Excellence Prize. The first is for the person who earns the highest overall rankings for fibre arts in the August 19-21 event. The second goes to the person who enters the most different types of needlework. Anyone can enter Canada's oldest continuous fair. Class lists are available at the Celebrate Sussex web site, www.celebratesussex.com
Thank you for making this such a memorable year, and here's looking forward to even more great things in the year ahead. Happy stitching!
Vanessa
