Christmas Party – December 2025 meeting
Join your guild friends for social crafting, festive fun and food. Bring a dish to share for the lunch table, your swap entry and the festive projects that you’re working on. There will be some fun activities run by members – Christmas crafts, the ever popular pass-the-parcel and a fibre swap (details below), or just sit and socialise.
As ever, bring along your latest spinning, weaving or dyeing project to work on, show off or to ask advice. Visitors and guests are welcome, it’ll be a lovely opportunity to meet members and make new fibre friends. Christmas jumpers and other festive attire are optional !
Plus Regular Features:
- Show and Tell – bring something you have recently finished or are still working on to share your progress.
- Sales Table – You are invited to bring craft related and other items for sale. Please, no jumble. 20% of sales goes to the Guild.
- Raffle – There will be a bumper raffle with some lovely prizes, so make sure you have some cash to buy tickets.
TIME/FORMAT: 11.00am – 4.00pm
NB all timings are subject to change
11.00 – 11:30 Settling in
11.30 – 12.45 Seasonal craft activities, swap preparation & social crafting
12.45 – 2.00 Bring and share lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Show and Tell, Guild notices and seasonal activities
3.30 – 4.00 Raffle, tidy up
LOCATION: Haddenham Village Hall, Banks Road, Haddenham, HP17 8EE
Scroll down to see a map. If you follow a SatNav, check it doesn’t send you down Crossways. The one way entrance to the car park is from Banks Road.
FACILITIES: Free Parking (register your car on the tablet int he hall). Disabled access. WiFi. Teas/Coffee included in cost.
GUILD MEMBERS : Free – meetings attendance is included in annual membership fee.
VISITOR COST: £7.00 per visitor, per meeting.
LUNCH:
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- Please bring a dish to share – if you would like to coordinate with others feel free to pop a post on WhatsApp / email a committee member to let everyone know what you’re bringing. If not, just bring it along on the day, we’ve never ended up with 20 plates of sausage rolls yet !
- Please include a label with an ingredients list for allergy reasons.
- Please either cut things up in advance, or bring a knife with you – there aren’t many at the hall.
ACTIVITIES:
- Pass the parcel – this is fast becoming a guild tradition. It’s amazing how popular it is with adults!
- Craft share – we have a couple of volunteers running seasonal crafts activities – Danish folded stars, woven paper hearts and sustainable wreaths from foraged materials. Please bring some change as there may be a small materials cost for some activities.
SWAP INSTRUCTIONS:
- 100g of fibre. It must be spinnable in its current state (not needing further prep) and must be dyed. Something nice that you’d like to receive as a gift.
- Split the fibre into 8 equal pieces of approx 12.5g. The easiest way to do this is to split it in half (2x50g), then split each of those in half (4x25g) and then split each of those in half once again (8×12.5g). Please pull the pieces apart, don’t use scissors !
- Wrap each piece individually / place in a paper bag with a note stating the fibre content, and the name of the blend and supplier if applicable.
- Bring your 8 parcels to the meeting in a bag or box.
- Jen will then perform some complicated rearranging of packages, and give you back your box / bag containing 8 different parcels for you to open.
- Bring any resulting makes back in January to show off!