The Banner Group

After the first pantomime in 2002 I was asked if I would consider starting a Banner Group. I approached a few ladies from the Guild who were interested in handicrafts and with a great deal of trepidation 5 of us decided to give it a go.

With a book to guide us and we made our first banner and we were relieved it turned out alright. We then made two others from the same book, other ladies joined us from time to time and the Banner group was up and running. As time went on we gained confidence in our work and gave up using the book and looked for our ideas from different sources, Christmas cards are excellent as designs, stories from the Bible can be turned into Banners e.g The Fishers of Men Banner on the Web page even seeing other Banners and altering them in some way to make them our own. In this way we have made banners for all the Festivals of the church year, at Christmas all the banners hung in the church have the Nativity theme running through them. We have a few for Easter, Pentecost, Harvest Festival, Rememberance Day and General banners, altogether we have around 50 to be used as and when they are needed.

We haven't forgotten the children as we have a collection of Christmas wallhangings which are put up in the Lesser Hall at Christmas time.

When we started we were financed by the Church but we seem to have become a Craft group too and we make items for the Christmas Fayre and as such we originally funded this ourselves and the goods we sell funds both our banners and crafts for the next year and we are also able to donate money to the Jubilee Fund.

We now have a great group of 7 ladies who have been together for a few years we have become friends and we sit at our table and plan what we will do next, sew and attempt to put the world to rights at the same time. We hope that everyone enjoys seeing our work and gets pleasure from it.

Jean Love

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