July Speaker

Our speaker for July is Gill from GillyMac Designs and her talk is called "Doodle your way into confident machine quilting." 

 In 2014 Gill set up GillyMac Designs to teach local children and adults to sew.  Gill quickly won national awards with her children’s classes and was recruited to teach classes for Liberty of London and works nationally for the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. 

Gill’s work has been shown around the UK as part of the GENArt movement, including being exhibited at the Turner Contemporary Gallery.

Over the past 5 years, Gill has expanded GillyMac Designs to four adult weekly classes and three weekly teen classes and the much loved Junior Sewing Bee.  Other classes are developed and fitted into this busy schedule.

Gill has also grown a large vibrant online community on Facebook and Instagram as well as setting up the online GillyMac Club for all her pupils to join and continue to share their work and learn from Gill regular online sewalongs.

June Meeting

Our June meeting was held on 5th featuring Michelle Moody. As well as being a founder member of Quilter’s Guild she is a very experienced quilter herself.  She explained her quilt journey and the stories behind a very large number of quilts that she brought to show us.  One could not fail to be impressed, partly by the sheer size of some of them, but even more by the fact that they were hand quilted.    I myself had never seen so many hand quilted examples in one place!

Michelle had a very easy way of talking, explaining and answering questions.  She belongs to a number of groups and runs many workshops as well as selling her quilts and doing commissions.

Detail of a bought Indian Quilt

Details from Michelle's Quilts