November's Meeting

Following on from Sunday's workshop, there was lots to see on Wednesday. In addition to the bags (see previous blog post):-

Tina, Jenny & Maria spent a day sewing earlier in the month and made a start on the group's quilts for Project Linus. They made one quilt for a boy and another for a girl.

       

And the next photos show the talent and variety of sewing and crafting skills within the group:

Elaine's fabric bowl

Pam's 3D Christmas Tree

Jenny's quilt

Chris' mug bag  

Chris' walking bag

Gemma's Ipad cover 

Lesley's embroidery

Shirley's fabric wreath

Denise's Japanese bag

Pam's stump work

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Wendy's stump work

Katie's mug bag

Chris' trapunto panel

Bag Day Workshop

The group held it's first workshop this month with 18 members taking part.  It was a whole day affair, 10am to 4pm, with a bit of time before and after for setting up and then clearing up. 

Two or three bags were completed on the day, with all the others almost finished, and most finished by our monthly meeting on Wednesday. Below are the photos so far (there are few more to come in due course). Some bags are waiting for handles and eyelets, others to be washed/tumble dried to make them 'raggy'.

Natalie's bag

Karen's bag - front

Karen's bag - back

Tina's bag - front

Tina's bag - back

Michele's bag

Jenny's bag 

Katie's bag

Barbara's bag

Heather's bag

October

I've been out every day and most evenings for at least one week and this is the first opportunity to post the update from this month's meeting.

We welcomed a new member, Jacqui who we first met when she came along to one of our Sewing Bees during the Brentwood Arts Festival back in July.

Our thoughts are now on the programme for next year so we had a bit of a brainstorm to come up with ideas - and there were quite a few! These have all been sorted out and it looks like the ideas can be grouped into a number of one-day workshops as well as some great ideas for our Wednesday meetings. More on all of this once we've firmed up the ideas.

On to show and tell then. A very talented bunch with examples of not only patchwork and quilting.

Jenny's Xmas hanging

Vera's little quilt

Tina's table mat

Tina's mug rug

Tina's table mat

Tina's table mat

Wendy's applique

Wendy's stump work

Wendy's xmas hanging

Denise's santa

Natalie's doorstop

Heather's bed quilt

Pam's quilt (in progress)

September - more photos

Two more show-and-tell photos from September's meeting. For some reason, these had not uploaded to my laptop and were still sitting on my phone. Lovely pieces both of them.

Mixed media by Wendy

Framed machine appliqué by Pam

September's meeting

Firstly, we welcomed two new members, Pam and Joan. 

Last month's bring and buy proved a great success and Jenny was please to report that she raised a wonderful £45 of the Parkinsons Society, a charity close to her heart. There was a resounding 'yes' to the question 'shall we do this again next year then?"

Our shown-and-tell seems to be getting longer and longer so we may have to rethink this for 2015. Meanwhile, this is September's show-and-tell, including some finishes!!! One lovely bed runner is not begin revealed now as it is a gift and we don 't want to spill the beans here!

Innocent hats by Barbara & Katie

Advent Calendar by Pam

Pam's 'album cover' quilt

Quilt-in-progress by Lesley

Batik runner by Tina

Blue & white quilt by Tina

Quilt-in-progress by Rosemary

Folk Art Applique by Lesley

Next month we'll be starting on out Secret Santa mug rugs.

(It looks like Blogger's messing up again the layout of our photos!)

August 2014, Bring-and-Buy Sale

With so many of us having bits and pieces at home surplus to requirements, this month we held a bring-and-buy sale.  Needless to say, we all went home with different bits and pieces, none of us really making a huge dent in our own stash!!!!

We welcomed a guest, Janet, a good friend of two members. Janet has soft furnishing remnants for sale - fabrics, trims etc - that are ideal for smaller patchwork and quilting projects, in particular those lovely purses we're all so keen on.

Jenny needed two tables; one for her own sales and another for the sale of donations to her from family members no longer able to stitch, the proceeds from which are destined for the Parkinsons' Disease Society. 

This was great fun and something I'm sure we'll repeat.

As always, we like to show off and here is this month's show-and-tell ( I expect Blogger will do all sorts of strange things again with the formatting, hey-ho!!!!):

Quilt in progress - Vera

Raggy quilt - Vera

Baby quilt - Michele

Baby quilt - Jenny

Log Cabin birds - Barbara & Katie

Cushion - Natalie

Runner in progress - Gemma

Pom-pom scarves - Anne

Christmas tree 1 - Rosemary

Christmas tree 2 - Rosemary

Sampler - Tina

Apple Core sample - Tina

EPP sample - Tina