These are the items that have been collected at the last two meetings.
At long last November 2021 saw our first evening meeting with a speaker! It was Sarah Humphries first presentation since the original lockdown as well.
It was good to be returning to some semblance of normality while having to observe some degree of "distance" to stay safe.
However our speaker did not disappoint. It was fascinating to hear her sewing and quilting journey and see so many examples of her work. We were impressed with Sarah's early quilts, many of them large, all ham pieced over papers when she was still a teenager.
She was also able to show her complete lack of actual quilting in the beginning, followed by more and more hand quilting, increasing to the high density and quality of the quilting she does today, much of which is now machine quilted.
There was so much to see and admire - we have missed our regular sharing of quilt stories - so fingers crossed that we can continue doing so uninterrupted in the future.
Here is some examples of her work.
This quilt was designed to reflect Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood and Kathleen Hamnett designs for clothes.
Two modern pieces made for challenges
The Joan Smith bursary was drawn at the last meeting. The first two winners are Marjorie Sanders and Gina Cooke.
Last weekend Viv Denscombe and Gina Cooke took part in the Leicester Race for Life. They were joined by two friends of Viv.
Our October meeting was once again held in two sessions - afternoon and evening. Both were well attended and were enjoyable events giving the opportunity to meet friends and fellow crafters and share our projects.
In the afternoon Janice Cook showed us her "lock down" projects. She showed many examples and gave careful explanations of her experiments with Intense pencils and Intense colour blocks and several other techniques. All were beautifully presented as the photographs show.
At both sessions we were brought up to date with preparations for next years Yarn Bombing. A number of samples for our group's display had been prepared and wool and patterns were available for anyone who would like to join in. This offer was especially taken up in the evening session.
There was added excitement when news came through that the village organisers of the yarn bombing had won the community award given by Blaby District Council which was taking place "live" as we were meeting.
Next month on Wednesday 3rd November our meeting returns to the evening when the speaker will be Sarah Humphreys with her talk Youngish Modernish. we shall still be observing necessary Covid precautions.
Janice's initial trials were using the pencils on paper.
For the first time in 18 months Cosby Quilters were able to meet on Wednesday 1st September. In fact we met twice: afternoon and evening and we are pleased to report very good support for each meeting.
We observed "covid awareness restrictions" but it was good to meet with everyone again and catch up with news. It was also inspiring to see many of the varied items people had made - some had tried new techniques and crafts.
The Cosby Village Yarn Bombing was also discussed and greatly admired, a special mention being made of our own "Harry Potter" display and the members who had put so much time and effort into it.
Future meetings were discussed and tentatively planned. October will probably be afternoon and evening again but after that we will have to be guided by the situation nearer the time and possible changing events.
All in all we were glad to be back and cross our fingers for future meetings!
Kathy Francis
We took photographs in the evening meeting of the show and tell. My apologies to the members who brought items in the afternoon as I didn't at that time think to take photos. A selection is below.
The first one is of the flower blocks that have been made for the new Cosby Quilters
Gina reminded us about the 6" square in your favourite colours. This can be in any medium, knitted, painted, embroidered etc. Eventually they will be used for display purposes. So far we have received two.
