5th February 2015

Our first meeting back after Christmas, and an easy relaxing evening to get us back into the swing of things. General housekeeping, first of all, to keep us all informed on the coming months activities. The date was set for the French Town Twinning Exhibition in March 2016 and a request made for quilts to be made on the theme of Communication.  And a quick discussion on making things to help raise funds for the club, that could be sold on our stands for the summer fairs we attend.  With these two activities in mind, we set to work catching up on the past few weeks while, discussing ideas for quilts and crafty items that could be sold on the stand.

Many people had brought along a small project to be getting on with, while the room filled with chatter and laughter! A theme seemed to appear this month amongst the group - English Paper Piecing - of various kinds.

Large Traditional Hexagons

Very Small Traditional Hexagons

Not so Traditional Shapes

We had Hand Appliqué...

We had Hand Quilting ......

We had a Bargello quilt being worked on....

A new project being started - with fabric being cut.....

A crib quilt being finished with some embroidery...

Even some knitting - a beanie hat for a grandson.....

Two more finished Julia Gahagan panels from the work shop held back in September.

And a quilt gift for our viewing...

A great, relaxing evening, and with a couple of requests to keep us busy over the next couple of weeks - with ideas for the Town Twinning Exhibition, and items to make to sell over the summer months - we went away happy - till we meet again at next months meeting - Thursday 5th March.