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18/10/2025

This month we were bead making with Christine Batey.
Some made bracelets, necklaces and spectacle cords.
It was very interesting but took quite a bit of concentration.
Thank you Christine for introducing so many of us to a new craft.

Competitions:
Edible Necklace
1st Catherine Lithgow
2nd Diane Hope

Costume jewellery
1st Lynda Stagg
2nd Liz Walters

11/10/2025

What a wonderful day for The Ruralympics.

A huge congratulations to Canonbie A who finished in 2nd place 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Teams from Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Stewartry, Wigtownshire and Dumfriesshire (a total of 17 teams) competed, chatted, laughed and enjoyed a lovely lunch at Locharbriggs Community Centre today.

GOLD - Haugh of Urr

SILVER - Canonbie A

BRONZE - Moscow

09/10/2025

Just a reminder, the next meeting for Canonbie SWI is 16th October.
All welcome.
Visitors £4.00

28/09/2025

Canonbie SWI is delighted to announce that after stiff competition from Ewes and Westerkirk SWI Institutes Canonbie SWI won The Salver and Best in Show in the SWI section at The Langholm Show yesterday 27th September.
Thank you to everyone who was involved for all their hard work and support.

24/09/2025

Canonbie SWI had their first session of the new season on Thursday 18th.
Liz Walters presented the badges to our new President Nicola Donald.
The talk on Scams & Keeping Safe was given by P.C. Lee Barnfather who has served in the police force for 18 years.
He gave a very interesting talk on all types of fraud from cold callers by phone and at the door to online scams and romance scams. AI is becoming so sophisticated now, making it difficult for many to differentiate between a genuine caller and scammers.
His advice was to always be vigilant, never sharing banking details, and not be polite. If anything happens you’re not happy about either hang up, or close the door.
Competitions were Stay Safe Poster and a key ring.
Poster: 1st Catherine Lithgow
2nd Diane Hope
Keyring 1st Pauline Greener
2nd Elizabeth Kinstrey.
The evening concluded with a quiz relating to TV detectives and the phonetic alphabet.
Next meeting is October 16th when Christine Beaty is giving a hands on beading class.

08/09/2025

Our new season starts on 18th September.
Membership fees are £32 or only £4 for a visitor.
Looking forward to seeing you all then.

10/06/2025

All welcome

25/05/2025

If anyone is interested in the event below, please contact Diana Stewart on the phone number given.
Sounds a very interesting trip

22/05/2025

It was the SWI Dumfriesshire Federation Show on 17/18th May.
So much talent was on show.

It was very successful for Canonbie SWI with Canonbie winning the Challenge cup in handcrafts for an institute over 20 members. A fabulous achievement with only 4 members submitting entries, Liz Walters, Gillian Lamont, Viv Blyth and Karen Pearson.

Our President Liz Walters won the May MacCrmick trophy for most points in the handcraft section.

The next show will be in another 2.5 years

18/05/2025

The 15th of May was Canonbie SWI last session of the term.
President Liz Walters welcomed everyone, gave a brief resume of the speakers, demonstrations and trips we’ve had this year. It has been varied and thoroughly enjoyable.
We all shared the goodies that our members had supplied.
The competition results for the year were:
Joint 2nd place Pam Bell & Liz Walters
1st place to win the trophy was Catherine Lithgow.

Results of the competition on the night was:
Wool article 1st Catherine Lithgow
2nd Gill Bailey

Wood item 1st Diane Hope
2nd Gillian Lamont.

Results of the voting for the committee were
Liz Walters
Dorothy Watson
Karen Pearson
Pam Bell
Maureen
Nicola Donald
Gillian Lamont
Diane Hope

We welcome members, new members and visitors to our next meeting in September.

22/04/2025

Canonbie SWI meeting on 17th April was our Open Evening, with about 50 people attending from Longtown WI, Nicholforest WI, Newcastleton SWI, Ewes SWI, Westerkirk SWI, Rigg SWI, Waterbeck SWI and Creca SWI.
Our speaker for the evening was Fiona Armstrong who gave an informative and enjoyable talk on her duties of Lord Lieutenant of
Dumfries.
Lord Lieutenants were introduced by Henry VIII to organise an army that could be used during war. It was their duty to feed and cloth this army.
Nowadays the Lord Lieutenant’s duties are more ceremonial with close ties to the military, veterans, reservists and cadets. Other duties also includes representing the monarch at various local events.
It wasn’t until 1956 that the 1st woman Lord Lieutenant was appointed.
Thanks to Fiona was given by Nicola Donald.
The competition of the evening for Canonbie SWI members and visitors was a photo taken in Dumfries & Galloway.
Results were:
Canonbie SWI
1st Catherine Lithgow
2nd Elizabeth Walters
Visitors:
1st Roman Bowman (Nicholforest)
2nd LorraineMorton (Ewes)

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