Our Speaker at the October meeting was Linda Chevell. She told us how much pleasure she gets from quilting
and reminisced about doing workshops with Vicky Oswin and Jean Gentry. Before she took up quilting full time she was
an English teacher. She retired from
teaching in 2007 and by 2009 she was teaching patchwork and quilting to a few
sewers in her own home. Eventually this
became Slipper Stitchers in Market Bosworth.
She said that she enjoys playing with colour and shape and
particularly in shading the colours (Photo 1). She showed us several examples. Many of the quilts that she showed us had been
created for her classes.
Just prior to covid she had a quilt all set up for the next
classes and successfully managed to transfer everything from face to face on to
the internet.
At the summer school in Loughborough she had shown several
of our members how to make perfect circles using reverse applique. Some of these were in our show and tell
session.
Currently she has started using the “Modern Quilting” Style
which can be seen in the last photograph.
We now have 14 people doing the travelling books and the
first entries were displayed for everyone to see.
Please note that the next meeting starts at 2 pm.
