Author: Cambridge Blue Belles

  • Getting hooked on crochet at our June meeting

    We all really enjoyed our meeting this month, which was jam packed with features and fun. We were delighted to welcome two special guests to the meeting – Ruth Bond, former NFWI Chair and Jenny Shelton, Features Editor of Cambridge Edition magazine, who is writing an article on us for the July edition. Ruth warmly…

  • Cambridge Edition visit

    We were so pleased to welcome Jenny Shelton, Features Editor of Cambridge Edition magazine, to our most recent meeting. Jenny came along to find out more about our modern WI and will be writing a feature for the July edition of the magazine. She got stuck in with beginners crochet and said she greatly enjoyed…

  • Embrace lace!

    It was a fine night in Cambridge as we gathered for our May meeting. It was great to see all the Belles again. We each had the chance to suggest two ideas for meeting topics over the next twelve months. The choices were varied but the most popular included crochet, museum visit, wine tasting and a talk…

  • Blue Belles committee meets up and eats cake!

    The first meeting of the Cambridge Blue Belles WI committee got off to a great start this week. Aside from planning essentials for the setting up of our brand new WI, we chatted through options for our Blue Belles branding, monthly programme, social events and the all-important cake rota! Many thanks to Sally and Fran, our…

  • Cambridge Blue Belles WI gets started!

    We were so pleased to set up a new WI in Cambridge on Wednesday 10 April 2013! We started by choosing a name, and one of our lovely members came up with the idea of Cambridge Blue Belles when she was watching the Cambridge/Oxford boat race on Easter Sunday. We unanimously agreed that this was…