Keeping our membership at 25 members, we welcomed a new member to the group, Miriam. There are 8 names on the waiting list.
Yesterday we had a shown and tell, some nibbles/drinks to celebrate our second birthday and block 7 in the mystery block challenge, a Dresden plate block.
Show and tell, top to bottom, left to right then:
Nappy bag by Michele
Baby quilt in progress by Miriam
Raggy bag by Shirley
(Centre, left, top) Japanese style bag, a gift to Gillian
(Centre, left, bottom) modern block quilt by Tina
(Centre) baby quilt in progress by Lesley
(Centre, right) crochet blanket by Katie
Cushion by Rosemary
Crochet hook roll by Heather
Our Christmas/2nd birthday meal is coming up later this month and will be attended by a much larger group than last year; we're all looking forward to it.
The new style programme has kicked in and next month we'll start the mini-tutorials, crazy patchwork by hand and by machine. And we're already starting to think about Christmas 2016; what to have was out Secret Santa project and to include in the programme the Christmas wreaths Shirley showed us at show-and-tell last year. It's all go!
Yesterday we held our first workshop of 2015, 'Putting it all together', in response to several requests about how to put blocks together and make a double fold mitred binding. Thirteen people came attended; one or two came along for the ride and spent their 'me time' cracking on with their own project in the company of like-minded folk.
To save a bit of time, attendees were asked to bring some pre-made blocks, or orphan blocks, to use to make their samples. We looked at squaring up blocks, the importance of measuring accurately, using sashing and borders, quilt-as-you-go sashing and, lastly, mitred minding. With time pushing on, we decided to move basting techniques to Wednesday and quilting is already planned as the subject of our second workshop in March.
