This month, November, was an entertaining evening meeting entitled 'Finding Ruby' with our speaker Julia Caton, also known as Jules.

Her story about her transatlantic quilt adventure was fascinating. It all started when she found some 1930's signature quilt blocks, whilst on holiday in Texas. Interesting as the blocks were in themselves, the story continued when she, knowing nothing about quilting at that time, found a group of people to guide her and help her sew these blocks together and make a quilt, and later when she did some research into the makers of the original signature blocks. Hence, Finding Ruby, one of the 1930's ladies who signed her pink and white pieced block.

Julia kindly bought along copies of the journal that was published about this project for everyone, as well as the finished quilt. She also bought along a second quilt commemorating 'Yorkshire' made by the same small group of people working on this project, who met to sew, and become friends  just as the first ladies in Texas must have done.

                                                 
                                                        Julia and her signature block quilt

Last month saw us making wrap-a-round aprons with Myra. A very practical piece of kit.

The November meeting is a speaker, Julia Caton. The title of her talk is Finding Ruby and is the intriguing story of a Transatlantic Quilting Project which began when Julia found some old quilting blocks on a trip to America.
Come along and find out more on the 22nd of November.

By popular request we are making a change to the programme for the January meeting and instead of colonial knots I will be demonstrating how I design and makes my patchwork pieces. I was lucky enough to be the overall winner at the Great Northern Quilt Show 2017.
My entry Triptych Silver Birch Wood is shown below.