Race for Life 10th July 2016

The stitch girls are taking part in the Race for Life on the 10th July 2016.

In previous years they have knitted squares for blankets and made flowers to create items that have been raffled at the Big Textile Show.  In the past many of our members have contributed items even though they have not taken part in the run.

This year they plan to make Tibetan Pray Flags.  The instructions for making the flags and an example are shown below.  All flags should be given to Viv Denscombe.

June Meeting

Our June meeting was very well attended, all eagerly waiting to hear Jan Hassard.  Her talk and her quilts where amazing. The beautiful work was very inspiring and those of us on her workshop the next day looked forward to starting to make our own quilts. 

Thursday morning arrived and at 10 o'clock we were given the pattern for the project we had chosen. 5 were doing the 3D quilt and 5 doing the dazzling diamonds quilt. The dazzling diamond ladies had already sewn together some strata's ready to sew the black strips to complete the strata before cutting again. 

So the 3D ladies set to sorting Lights Medium and darks, and cutting 10"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ strips of each we began making our 3D blocks in a very clever technique. 

A wonderful workshop, and a very interesting day was had by all. Jan was a brilliant and clever teacher. Thanks Jan for the Talk and workshop.

Look forward to seeing you all for our practical evening in July. [Don't forget your sewing kit.]

Jacquie

Photos from June Meeting

Photos from Workshop

Jan Hassard's Workshop

Jan's workshop on the 2nd June is "Dazzling Diamonds".

As some of the people already booked on the course have been having trouble finding the fabric required for this workshop.  Jan has also agreed to run in tandem 3 d quilts the Honeycomb design  this can be made  small or larger and can use fat quarters or smaller pieces.  So less fabric needed. 

Jan would like to know which you are doing so that she can bring the right amount of worksheets for both workshops. So Please Let Pat Screaton know which you fancy Mob: 07860 106999

Jan is an international tutor and we are fortunate in getting her to our group for a workshop.

The workshop is being help at Cosby Community Church Croft Road, Cosby LE9  1SE  on Thursday (2nd June) 10.00 till 4.00 Bring a packed Lunch, Drinks and Biscuits will be provided. Members £22.00 and Non Members £27. Jan’s talk will be  at Cosby on the Wednesday evening (1st June) starting at 7.30, Free on your first visit.  Our membership is £20 for the year, and  reduced as the year goes on well worth joining.

May Meeting and Workshop

We had a visit from Joan Smith, who started Cosby quilters from her home over 25 years ago. Due to illness Joan had not been for a while so it was very nice to see her.

Anja gave us a wonderful talk on her work ,  it was very entertaining and a chance for us to see what we were doing on her workshop the next day.

We all eagerly turned up Thursday morning with machines  and a variety of threads ready for the day. Getting started with a copy of the chosen pattern everyone had a wonderful day using the various stitches on our machines we don't normally get to experiment with. We all copied more patterns to take home and use after the workshop. A very inspiring and enjoyable workshop.

A date has been set for the Creative Messy Play day on the 11th July.

Hope you all have a great May with the sunshine and look forward to seeing you in June for another month with 2 workshops.

Jacquie

 Anja and her beautiful work

The Raffle table

The Workshop

Anja's sample

 Samples of work from the workshop

Speaker for May Meeting

The speaker for the May Meeting is Anja Townrow.  The talk is entitled "Flower Festival"

Since the late Eighties she has developed her skills by trying out the different techniques in the by then more widely available American books and magazines.  During the early 90’s, she made many bed quilts to commission, which enabled her to learn her craft through practice and experience.  In 1993, Anja set up ‘Dutch Quilts’ when she started to sell her first patchwork kits at Craft Fairs, and her range of patterns remains available under the ‘Dutch Quilts’ label.  After teaching a weekly class for six years, Anja now travels extensively to give lectures and workshops throughout the UK and Europe.

Examples of her work

April Meeting

What a lovely relaxing workshop we  had on the Wednesday afternoon.  It was refreshing just to sit and hand sew. Gilli had some really inspiring patterns to choose from. We all got down to sewing very quickly to produce our Kantha sewing to be framed into a picture.

The evening talk by Gilli was enjoyed by all and over far to quick. Her work was beautiful and gave us insight into her sewing world.

Lovely to see you all. Have a super month, plenty of sewing for next months show and tell.

Jacquie

Chris Yates Teabag Workshop

Teabag Workshop 11th June 2016

Details of the workshop can be found on the workshop page.