Wednesday 18th December 

Our Christmas Meeting was full of the usual Festive Fun.

Sewing wise
We had the option of playing with some white cotton snowflakes cut out on the sizzix machine to make a small ornament or wall hanging.

Secret Santa
Everyone received a small gift brought in by a fellow member. The items had to be something associated with stitching and were wrapped in festive paper and donated anonymously. Very exciting to see what you had been given.

Faith Supper
As usual the spread was superb and far too much for everyone to eat.

Show and Tell
A few Christmas themed items in Show and Tell this month. (photos in the Show and Tell section)

So Merry Christmas to all members of White Rose and I hope you have time to sew in the New Year.

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.