Our First Evening meeting of the year was on the theme of Cathedral Window. Glenda Smith came along to show us her work and teach us her method for constructing the basic patchwork square used in this type of patchwork. Glenda has written articles in several magazines and her work is outstanding

The next meeting is Thursday November 28th and the theme is Christmas Wreaths

The New programme for this year has started. For details of all the dates and the theme for each meeting go to the "Programme of Events" pages.

The next meeting is on Wednesday 23rd October when Glenda Smith will be showing us how to make a Cathedral Window Pin Cushion.

July 24th was the groups Annual General meeting.

The chairperson and treasurer both gave their short reports to the group.
The group agreed to keep the new format of some Thursday sewing meetings and some Wednesday evening meetings.
Members agreed that the group should purchase a sizzix machine and some dies that members could loan to cut patchwork pieces
The chairperson outlined the programme for next year which I will post on the blog when it has been finalised.

The meeting in September when the group reconvenes after the summer is Thursday 19th September

The theme for the meeting is Floral Appliqué.

The evening meeting on June 26th was full of chatter as it was spent doing a relaxing hand sewing technique.
We welcomed Dororthy Baird who showed us how to do Red Work and brought along lots of samples of her work to inspire us.
We heard about the history of the work and then had a chance to sew ourselves as Dorothy had bought us some small pre-marked designs of Christmas motives to try. 

Everybody hard at work on their sewing.

Dorothy's samples of the Red Work designs that we tried sewing for ourselves.

Thursday 23rd of May was the meeting for which we had to change the date. due to the hall being taken over as a polling station on that day.This meant that some members had made other plans and could not attend. Nevertheless, we had a good meeting the following week on the 30th, and explored curved piecing.

The results can be seen below:-

The evening of Wednesday 24th April was spent revisiting log cabin with Liz and Myra. Just loved the quirky nature of the blocks and how quick they were to do.

 At our next meeting in May we will be looking at curved piecing and trying our hand at drunkards path on the sewing machine.

The patchwork fabric pieces will be provided, cut with great accuracy on a sizzix machine which will hopefully make fitting them together easy.

Members will need to bring along their machine with a 1/4 inch patchwork foot plus sewing cotton. A light grey coloured cotton will be the most suitable to match all the fabric colours.

Please also bring your usual sewing kit, an electric extension lead and an iron if you have one that you can carry.

The next meeting is on Thursday March 28th. This is an afternoon Sit and Sew session.

The committee have arranged to do a demonstration of foundation piecing as part of the programme.

The last Wednesday night meeting was the change in the original published programme. The group borrowed one of the Quilters Guild's travelling trunks and wearing white gloves were able to closely examine some old quilted items. A review of the meeting can be seen by clicking on the meeting review section of the blog where a photo of a very demure Brigit wearing a quilted bonnet can be seen.

Hope to see people on the 28th. 1-00 pm  to 4-00 pm.

The programme has had an alteration for the February meeting as unfortunately Pam is no longer able to run a workshop for us on that date, Wednesday 27th February 2019.

Instead, we will be examining one of the Quilters Guild Travelling Trunks. A chance to see and touch some older quilted textiles.

Also a reminder that the Spring Quilt Festival at the Great Yorkshire Show Ground, Harrogate, is on this coming weekend, 22nd to 24th February 2019. A chance to see some stunning work and indulge in some retail therapy.

2018 ended with our Festive Meeting on 19th December

You can read about this in the meetings review section but here are a couple of the tree hangings made at the meeting

Our next meeting is an afternoon Sit and Sew session on Thursday January 24th

There has been a change to the original program and Liz Briggs will lead a session on Linus Quilts.

Don't forget to bring your Name Badge that you made in the November meeting, so we all know who you are. Some of us have terrible memories for names, and it gets worse as we get older