Fancy a relaxed evening of chatting over a slice of cake, with your fibre craft of choice?
We’re very excited to invite you to the Open Stitch Book Club at Whistlebare Fold, as well as our new weekly knit and natter nights!
A hot drink and piece of cake is included, there’ll be a toasty fire going and all are welcome. Bring your knitting, crochet, sewing for an informal, cosy time, and on Book Club nights, venture any thoughts about the book as and when they come!
There’ll be a welcoming space and canny company waiting at Whistlebare Fold every Wednesday evening from 7pm to 9pm.
Book Club sessions are on the first Wednesday of each month. Every other Wednesday will be knit and natter.
All comers welcome, whether you’ve got plans to become a regular, or once in a blue moon! All sessions are £7.50 including hot drink and cake, with books on top at cost.
We are currently reading The High House by Jessie Greengrass which we will be discussing on Wednesday 2nd September.
Goodreads provides the following synopsis:
“In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.
Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long?
Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster—but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy—the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything—can teach them as his health fails.
A searing novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is a stunning, emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world.”
Our next book will be Craftland by James Fox which we will be discussing on Wednesday 7th October.
Waterstones says:
“From wheelwrights to silversmiths, Fox takes a tour of Britain in pursuit of some of the last remaining master craftspeople at work today in this immersive exploration of how crafts are interwoven with national identity.
The story of craft is the story of who we are.
Britain has always been a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands defined our families, communities and regions. Craftland brings to life the vanishing skills, traditions and trades that shaped the fabric and governed the rhythms of everyday life in Britain for hundreds of years.
Through the stories of often humble-seeming objects of exquisite beauty, precision, utility and meaning, it shows how craft connects us to the land, emerging from local natural materials, and is the material expression of our regional identities and cultures. And through encounters with some of the last remaining master craftspeople at work today – weavers and wheelwrights, coopers and coppice-workers, boat-builders and bell-founders, silversmiths and watch-makers – we glimpse not only our past but another way of life, one that is not yet lost and whose wisdom could yet shape our future.
For as long as there are humans, there will be craft, ever evolving in response to changing technologies, environments and communities. Craftland is a celebration of that deeply necessary connection between our creative instincts and the material world we inhabit, revealing a richer and more connected way of living.”
Our books are supplied by The Book Loft, a wonderful new book shop in Berwick, so you’ll be helping to support another local business!
If you’d like to come along to the book club and purchase the book through us, please drop us an email at studio@whistlebare.com, so we can arrange enough copies of the next book in store for you! If you would like to purchase the book yourself then we strongly encourage you to visit The Book Loft’s beautiful shop on Marygate, Berwick.
We hope to see you on Wednesday!