{"id":3528,"date":"2016-10-11T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:52:35","slug":"crafty-soroptimists-welcome-kiwi-caller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2016\/10\/11\/crafty-soroptimists-welcome-kiwi-caller\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Soroptimists Welcome Kiwi Caller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Simpson, President of Soroptimist International (SI), dropped in on members of SI Warrington as they got together to make dresses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Warrington-members-with-dresses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3537\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Warrington-members-with-dresses-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"Warrington members with dresses\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Warrington-members-with-dresses-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Warrington-members-with-dresses.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The club held the sewing day to make clothes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dressagirlaroundtheworld.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Dress A Girl Around The World&#8217;<\/a>. SI Warrington&#8217;s newest member, Julia Blair, had come up with the\u00a0idea &#8211; and\u00a0club members took to it with enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0made patterns and cut the fabric for 25 dresses in four different sizes; then they got busy pinning, sewing, hemming &#8230; and chatting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Margaret-Emsley-and-Yvonne-Simpson-sewing-in-Warrington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3536 size-medium\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Margaret-Emsley-and-Yvonne-Simpson-sewing-in-Warrington-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Presidents Margaret Emsley and Yvonne Simpson sewing in Warrington\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Margaret-Emsley-and-Yvonne-Simpson-sewing-in-Warrington-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Margaret-Emsley-and-Yvonne-Simpson-sewing-in-Warrington.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On hand to help out was Margaret Emsley, Federation President of SI Great Britain &amp; Ireland &#8211; a member of SI Ashton under Lyne.<\/p>\n<p>From Hokitika, New Zealand,\u00a0Yvonne was on her way to the airport to fly to Budapest (Hungary) to speak about the post-earthquake situation in Nepal. Soroptimist International truly is a global organisation.<\/p>\n<p>One SI Warrington member was particularly pleased to welcome International President Yvonne: Margaret Carr is a fellow kiwi (as well as being South Lancashire Region&#8217;s Communications Officer).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Kiwis-Margaret-Carr-International-President-Yvonne-Simpson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3538\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Kiwis-Margaret-Carr-International-President-Yvonne-Simpson-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kiwis Margaret Carr and Yvonne Simpson\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Kiwis-Margaret-Carr-International-President-Yvonne-Simpson-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Kiwis-Margaret-Carr-International-President-Yvonne-Simpson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2016\/10\/Kiwis-Margaret-Carr-International-President-Yvonne-Simpson.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Simpson, President of Soroptimist International (SI), dropped in on members of SI Warrington as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":3539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crafty Soroptimists Welcome Kiwi Caller | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Crafty Soroptimists Welcome Kiwi Caller : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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