November Speaker

Our speaker for November is Carolyn Forster and her talk is entitled Quilts from Precuts.  The meeting starts at 2 pm.

Carolyn Forster studied textiles at Bath and has a City and Guilds in Patchwork and Quilting.

Over the years Carolyn’s work has been featured in various British and International quilting magazines. Her quilts have appeared on the television; both here and in the US, and has contributed to books published by New Holland and That Patchwork Place.

Since self-publishing her first book, Quilting-on-the-Go, Carolyn Forster has written books for Landauer Publishing in the US, and Search Press in the UK. Carolyn teaches widely both here in the UK and abroad.

October Meeting

On October 6th/7th we saw a welcome return of textile artist Gail Lawther.  She travels the UK widely doing talks, workshops etc. as well as doing commissions for books and banners especially for schools and churches.

We saw many beautiful quilts and Gail explained their designing and planning, several being in the books she has published.  Some were the same design design in different colourways showing dramatic changes of mood and atmosphere.

Colours were vibrant especially when emphasised with the stained glass effect achieved with black, silver or gold iron-on bias binding.

Even for those of us less confident with free motion quilting Gail showed several effective designs without the feed dogs being lowered.

A variety of books and patterns being available was also popular as was her Christmas workshop the previous day at Ashby Magna.

Kathy Francis

Janet's flip and sew jaguar