Busy Monday - And MORE Cakes!!

 Our Honorable Secretary had arranged a Memory Walk to raise funds for The Alzheimers Society

 And she had raised over £1000 for this cause.

 So today we held a very nice Raffle and were treated to some more scrummy cakes and another £100 was added to the pot.

Well Done Carol  👏👏👏👏👏



Well done to June too,  who has finished her first pair of knitted socks 

 And Another Well Done to Mrs Beal who used up lots of stash fabrics to make this quilt for a new baby. 

Back in the room, Debbie was working on some embroidered blocks for a Christmas themed quilt

Annette was adding detail to a block made from her scraps ......

 that will finish as this lovely quilt

Maria has already made two of these Teddy Bears and had started on her third

Hazel has used some really pretty fabrics to make this Elephant

Pauline has been knitting Angels for a church project

Elaine is working on a sampler piece for herCity and Guilds qualification

Ellen was getting a head start on our project day,  as she wants to make more than one wreath 

 Barbara has spent ......... some time getting this block right

 Ann and Kay are getting ready to Glam up for the festive season

 But I am not sure that Chris will look quite so glamorous 😜

so much work !!

 Then we have this little beauty from Alison - she has made everything from moulding and firing the doll, painting the detail and making her outfit

 We have s much talent at our little group. 


We are off to the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexander Palace on Sunday so hopefuly the ladies will come back full of new ideas. 

Cake and Quilts - A perfect Combination

 We had a great selection of cakes to supply the ladies who attended the Quilter Guild Regional Day at Great Doddington and Piecemakers were acting as tea ladies hostess'

 Greta Fitchett was the morning speaker. You will remember that she came to give a talk to our group last September

 And Julia Gahagan spoke about her technique of making Miniature quilts in the afternoon.

 Not easy to get a photo so I've taken these images from Julia's website - go over and look at her fantastic gallery

 We had some of the cakes left over so a feast was had on Monday !

Mrs Beal was busy as usual making patches for Linus quilts

 As was Eileen

 Jan had a stash of blocks made for a Christmas Quilt  and she is on the last ones so we should see that soon

 Toni has a pretty selection of fabrics in her Hexi's

Ena was making Scandi houses which needed some flowers added, she was going to sew on some glittery ones but they are too large so she will have to get her needle and thread out

Alison is working on her healing quilt.  I have seen a finished one of this.  It will be stunning  

Janis is working on a Challenge piece from another group   She is working on the Nursery Rhyme "Ring a Ring of Roses"

A pocket full of Posies

 And this is most certainly a Ta Dah!! Moment

Over several year we have seen the progress of Therese rag rug waistcoat

 Well it is finished

 And it weighs......

 A TON!!!  but she will be very warm this winter.  Well done Therese 👏👏👏



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Octobers Project day will be led by Shirley and we will be making a Christmas Wreath

Please pop over to the Diary page for the requirements list 

They came up Trumps - Again!

June asked if we could make some Heart Cushions for Mastectomy patients on our next All Day workshop.  

I asked the ladies if they could sort out some bits of fabric and some stuffing for the day.

We got to work sewing, 

Stuffing

 And the cushions kept on coming

 and coming

 and coming

 and we have 70 - Yes 70!!  cushions to go off to Crazy Hats to be donated to the local hospital for patients that have had to undergo a Mastectomy. 

Well done ladies - I cannot thank you enough for pulling out all the stops - AGAIN !!




It has been a while since I have got around to updating this little diary of our activities, but I must show Debbie's lovely Linus Quilt

And you may remember seeing Muriel's purple foundation pieced blocks over many sessions.  Well here is the magnificent finished quilt 

With a beautiful pieced backing too

 
A round of applause for both 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Challenge Reveal!

The members were given a Fat 1/4 pf a floral fabric and had to make something Feather related -

I wont add too much, just peruse the wonderful collection of items

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