October 30th Exhibition Day 2

I visited the exhibition today, and thought I would add a couple more photos

  this was before the crowds arrived ....... you think I am joking

Do you remember our Challenge at the end of  2010?  well, here are some of the blocks....don't they look good???  Once we get the green blocks added it will look stunning.  Shame it was next to the notice  board.

We had fun making boxes on one of our 'all days'

Remember the sampler quilts, well here is a sample as many of us have not finished .

Another 'all day' we made patchwork dresses,

These were all made by the Wednesday evening ladies,    aren't they great..I want I want

On the last 'all day' we made these little filigree trees.

The sales table...... lots here to buy.

A group of feathered friends keeping an eye on matters

It not just quilts that we make

The Bede House. Not where we normally meet but an architecturaly stunning building for a Exhibition 

The exhibition ended with our cushion raffle.  There had been 65 cushions donated by our ladies, and lots of folk came back to claim their favourite.  

Lots of ladies came to help clear up, and let me tell you, it was a lot quicker clearing everything away than it took to build the exhibition on Friday evening.  

BIG THANKS  to all that helped over the last few days, you are too many to mention but you all know who you are.

STOP PRESS ! We have raised the fantastic amount of £2052.65. Well Done Ladies!!  £845.76 has been paid for young Matthews new bed. News on our other donation will follow shortly. 



Some of the Wednesday Girls Christmas hangings! Don't they look great



Well done ladies! A fabulous first day to the Exhibition. We had over 200 paying visitors through the door. The compliments have been coming thick and fast. The sales table are doing a roaring trade as usual and the refreshments have been scrummy! Here is a little peek if you haven't made it so far. Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon.

A liitle bit of Christmas. See the folded Christmas trees that Ena showed us last week?

A sight to behold when you open the door!
Ann & Linda in the corner selling the Cushion raffle tickets. I think that there will be quite a few there at 4.00 tomorrow for the draw so they can pick their favourite.

If you haven't been yet, do try to come tomorrow. It's well worth the visit!
Thank you to Albert  & Ann for the photography. More tomorrow!!

October all day....better late than never

Better late than never as they say.....

On our last all day, we had the excitement of presenting the cheque to Matthew and his parents,  but we also had a lot of fun in the morning making filigree Christmas trees.  Ena showed us all how to behave (or end up in the corner with the Dunces cap on) and how to make stunning little trees...(unfortunately none of us finished on the day, but promise to show you next time).  I think we all had a great time cutting and stitching before taking them home to 'titivate' them up with jewels etc.

 Ellen has to behave as she is in cockup corner where Ena reigns

 Just look at the concentration of those faces

 Who could beat a smile like that???

 See, everyone is busy ....cutting, sewing, talking (not much of that at first) coffee drinking..... good day had by all

 Poor Lesley could not join us as she had a bit of quilting and binding to do before a 2 o'clock deadline.

And last but not least....one quilt finished ready for our exhibition on the 29th ....phew!!!!! at least we know there is going to be one on show....

We have been wondering what we are going to do with the funds made at our up coming Exhibition. We saw an article it the Evening Telegraph about Matthew Malloys fundraiser too buy him a specialist bed as he has to be tube fed through the night. They have raised over £4500 so far and needed a further £849 to reach their target. So we gave them a call and pledged the final amount.

This afternoon Matthew and his Mum & Dad came along to collect the cheque and a quilt to go with it. We thought on Friday afternoon that it would be nice for Matthew to have a snuggle quilt to put on his new bed , so on Saturday Lynda & Jo worked like trojans and pieced the quilt top and the backing and Lesley sat this morning and got it quilted and bound. Some going!      

The photo shows Matthew with his Mum, Michelle & the quilt



This is the front of the quilt


And the back with lots of different novelties



Michelle, Tim & Matthew

Posing for a photo for the paper!

Give me the money!!

Matthew chatting with our members

Busy Bees making a filigree Christmas tree under Ena's instruction



At our meeting today the ladies brought along their cushions that will be raffled at our Exhibition in a couple of weeks. What a lovely selection! Ena had a boot full of  items for the sales table to take away and get priced up ready. That will keep her busy for quite a while. I managed to get a bit of sewing done for a change, thank you Lynda for the use of your machine!

Wednesday ladies, don't forget your cushions and sales items and the we will all be set.

The exhibition will be held at The Bede House, Market Square, Higham Ferrers (in St Mary's Church grounds) on Saturday 29th October 9.30 to 4.30 and Sunday 30th October 12 to 4.30 . Admission  is £2.50 (Accompanied Under 16's free) and we will have refreshments on sale too, (scrummy home made cakes).

Don't forget that the Farmers Market will be in Higham on the Saturday!  All Welcome. LB

Wednesday 5th October, and Diana Turner was with us again to show us how to complete Kanzsahi Folded Flowers.  Some of us got on better than others, but all had a good evening.

The photos show Rosemary getting to grips under Susan's watch full eye!  Pretty choice of fabric.

Pam, a visitor from Australia joined us for the evening and Hayley who has just moved to Higham and came for a coffee joined in and made a very pretty, neat flower.


Diana has offered to come along in the New Year to show us a couple of other techniques. Looking forward to that!! LB

Monday 19 September (all day at Higham piecemakers)

What a great day we had today.   The morning was spent making items that we can add to the sales table at our quilt show in October.  With the usual chatter and laughter, quite a few more items came to life.

These little owl pincushions/keyrings made an appearance....sweet arn't they???

Not sure what these two industrial ladies made, but look forward to seeing the finished items.

For the afternoon session, we had invited Diana Turner to show us how to make Kanzsahi Folded Flower.  She explained a little of the history of these wonderful hand made beauties, and showed us how the Japanese Geisha girls wore them, and how small they can be made by the master Kanzsahi flower makers.... just stunning.

We started with a 3" square of fabric, which once folded made one of the petals for our flower.You can use larger or smaller squares, depending on the size you would like your finished flower.  Of course there is always one that has to be a little different, and wanted a big one.....guest who that was??  

Yes, she even had time for coffee!!

Think we all had fun with these flowers.  

At the end of the afternoon we had made quite a few flowers, and Diana very kindly supplied us with pins and buttons to turn the flowers into beautiful little brooches.    Thank you once again Diana we all had a ball.

Diana Turner will be visiting us on  Monday 19th Sept  and  Wednesday 5th October  to show us how to make Kanzsahi Folded Flowers. The workshop requirements will be available at the next meeting. LB 

First attempt at blogging

Today at the group, we had an apple fest..... someone had a bumper crop, so came to share with us. The talk  ( in the corner I sit) was on how we would be cooking them, and some great recipes came up, but for me you can't beat good old Apple  Pie, alas the sewing got the back seat today.
BUT

What I did learn this afternoon, was how to add to this blog, so not all chatting this week.

Last Christmas we were all given a charm pack as a gift Yeah!!! so I decided to make a table centre with my pack.  I used the Pat Sloan tutorial called 'Lucky Charm'  but altered the centre flowers.

Now to test my skills I will try to add the photo of my table centre.  O.K. not so cleaver, as the photo I wanted to appear here has appeared shown up above.

Looks like this site might be a bit like my quilts ....work in progress

Angie's bag

This is the bag that Angie made while off sick, but we can all make one the pattern is sold at Poppy Patch....so who is game for that?????