PRESIDENT Hilary Taylor welcomed members and visitors to the October meeting.

Small articles for shoeboxes to be transported to Romania are still being collected.

Also, craft gifts to sell at the Acorn Hospice shop are being collected.

The draft programme for 2002 was read out and nominations for members willing to stand for committee were called as the next meeting in November will be the AGM.

A visit to Cutnall Green for a Christmas demonstration and supper is planned for December.

Speaker Mrs Pinfield delighted members with a demonstration of cloth sculpture with the aid of a wine bottle, some wire, padding, wool, cloth and wallpaper paste.

She created a Victorian lady and a king for a nativity scene. She was thanked by Rita Jordan.

Winners of the handmade Christmas card competition were Pauline and Rhona with Wyn and Rita joint third.