Christmas Party December 2024

A Jolly Good Do with Secret Santa, Mince Pies and Nibbles, and making Snowmen or Ginger Bread Persons.

 Interesting and informative meeting in November.

One of our members Mary Whitehouse gave us a talk on the courses she has been doing at Bradford College of Art. Further details on the meetings review page.

We also had a visitor, Sue Cooke
from Hartrigg Oaks. 

Three of our members Janice Lawson, Kate Smith, and Lis Tate helped them to make a memorial quilt to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of their opening. Alongside the quilt, they also produced an album detailing each block in the quilt and its maker plus the overall construction process.

Sue kindly bought along a copy of the album to present to the group and the members who helped.

 The October meeting saw us making magic bags with Kate Smith.

These are small draw string bags that are very simple to make and have one drawstring to open the bag and a second to close it. Magic!

They are very quick and easy and can be made with Christmas or fancy fabrics and used instead of wrapping paper for presents.

WORKSHOP  APPLI-PIECING WITH KAREN AND GILL 

SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2024

An interesting technique and very ably taught by Karen and Gill.

Personally, fabric glue and me have never really got on but even I managed not to get in a sticky mess whilst I aligned my pieces like a jigsaw. Then everyone concentrated on their machines in order to sew them together using invisible thread and a small zigzag stitch

10 members attended the workshop and everyone managed to come away with a finished or nearly finished piece of work. We look forward to seeing the results at the show and tell at our next meeting.

 WORKSHOP LINUS QUILTS    SATURDAY 11TH MAY

A great day when 10 members got together to sew Linus Quilts on Saturday following the talk by the Linus Quilt Representatives at our last meeting.

Lots of sewing and lots of chat. Members gave each other feedback and ideas on their quilts. It was a very productive retreat, away from the distractions that you get sewing at home.

The day was warm and sunny and we enjoyed lunch in the churches garden and scrumptious cake kindly provided by Janice.

Here are the end results.

 24th July 2023

A small select gathering for tonight's AGM.

We said a grateful thankyou to the retiring members of the old committee and finances being in order are ready to go forward with our newly elected officers next year. 

Business having been got out of the way we spent a convivial session hand sewing thread catchers based round old Pringles tubes. Thanks to Ann for leading this.

North Country Quilts 26/6/24

What an interesting evening we had hearing about North Country Quilts from Kate and seeing an example of one from her heritage quilt collection. 

See meetings review for more details. Also check out Show and Tell to look at some of the fantastic makes from our talented members. 

 MEETING     WEDNESDAY MAY 22nd

WONKY LOG CABIN with CAROL BOWDEN

A good evening with Carol who demonstrated this quirky log cabin technique. It seemed anything goes in the way of strips in this technique, meaning it is a good way of using up your stash. All those bits you thought were too small to do anything with can be joined and added as a log cabin strip to make up the blocks. As you trim the blocks to size when you think they are big enough, accuracy is not a problem, and with no seams to match up either, it is a quick and easy way to make a scrap quilt of any size.

A great way to make a great Linus Quilt !

Clever half square triangles

 What a good evening we had learning a new (certainly for me) way to make half square triangles (HST). Beth Helfter’s Accordion Sewn Scrappy half square triangles method. No two sewn squares turn out the same!  Although initially it looked baffling, it was a very simple technique and we all enjoyed having a go. 

Showing the HST 

Border showing a different way to use this HST technique 

Tadcrafters

 Sorry, my post is late again. 

We heard all about Tadcrafters at February’s meeting. What a fantastic group they are. I had no idea about the scope of their work and the many charities that they support. Read more in the meeting review. 

TADCRAFTERS        tadcrafters.org.uk         tadcrafters@outlook.com

New Year, new project

 I finally got to a meeting having missed the last few for various reasons. It was great to be back with my quilting friends. Janice showed us how to make fabric chocolates, the perfect antidote to the excesses of the Festive Period! See meetings review for further details and ‘show & tell’ for some fantastic makes from our talented members.