Programme 2025
Month
Activity
Description
New Year Challenges
Sustainable Tea Towel Challenge – embellish, add borders if you wish and make into a wall hanging or small quilt. Maximum size 36” square
Ticket Roll scraps – using the given roll, use your scraps to make a long strip. Chrissie will bring hers along and show how to do this at the meeting
Transformation Challenge
Project Linus Blocks – Boat and Cat. Eileen will show and demonstrate half square triangles in relation to both of the above blocks
Stockings for the Evelina Children’s Hospital. Jill will be guiding any member who is unsure of the method used in making these
Saturday Bag Workshop with Kate
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Kate will be showing two bags, one in the morning and one in the afternoon
Members will have time to make both
18th February
Borders
Demonstrating various border ideas,
Prairie Points - Gill S
Seminole - Gill C
French Braid - Deirdre
Inset Binding - Eileen
18th March
Flick Skinner from
Eelo and Ider - Talk
An Open Meeting.
Friends, family and all are welcome. £5.00 to include refreshments, a raffle will be held at this meeting
Flick will be giving a talk on “Improv Quilting, Designs, Colour Palettes and everything you need to know” and will bring along some of her merchandise
12th April
Saturday Workshop
Gill Towell
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Quilting with Rulers. Gill will be demonstrating and showing how to machine with these helpful accessories.
Maximum Number 15
15th April
Quilt As You Go
An evening of demonstrations showing various ways of quilting blocks/rows before they are assembled into quilts
20th May
A.G.M. To be followed by
"My Quilting Journey"
Deirdre talking to three members about their work and how they became quilters
17th June
Charity Sewing Evening
Joining together the Linus blocks into quilts
15th July
Card Making Evening
Making different cards using fabric
19th August
Assembling a Quilt
Demonstrations and discussions on layering a quilt
16th September
Janet Clare
Talk
"Moda and Me"
An Open Meeting
Friends, family and all are welcome. £5.00 to include refreshments, a raffle will be held at this meeting
Janet will be giving a talk about the design process and why it takes 12 – 18 months for her initial designs to finally appear in our quilt shops
21st October
Secrets of Your Sewing Machine
How well do you know your sewing machine? An evening of discovering different attachments you didn’t know existed and what they were for, general tips from members
18th November
Christmas Make
Further details nearer the time
16th December
Christmas Social plus
"Big Show and Tell"
of 2025 Challenges
A Show and Tell of the Challenges and general work by members throughout the year
Open Meetings and Saturday Workshops are shaded
Easter Monday - 21st April 2025