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Malta – Our first international retreat

Jennie and Valerie have just come back from our first international justhands-on.tv quilting retreat in Malta with Stitchtopia/Arena Travel After a  couple of days sightseeing and chilling at the hotel, our ladies enjoyed 4 days of workshops learning how to twiddle and fiddle with Jennie and then creating a quilt with Valerie combining the Dresden Plate/Grandmothers Fan blocks on day one  with Flying geese on day two to create small medallion style quilts.

2017-11-18T00:00:00+00:00November 18th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Community|Comments Off on Malta – Our first international retreat

Accomplishments

Janet wrote to show us her quilt - she's very proud of her accomplishment. She retired at 61yrs and thought she would try her hand at patchwork.  This is the second quilt she made. She told us "it's not perfect as you can see but an accomplishment I never thought possible." We think it's a fantastic accomplishment and a lovely choice of colours too.

2017-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2017|Categories: Community, Show and tell|Comments Off on Accomplishments

Oakshott Open Days – how can you resist?

Who are Oakshott Fabrics: You may have seen some Oakshott fabrics in our Shop, but who are they? Oakshott is a family-run business which has been supplying quilters and textile artists the world over since 2003. The brand is renowned for the high quality of its fabrics and the sumptuousness of its colour ranges. The collections are designed entirely in-house and ethically sourced from respected weavers, currently in India.

2017-10-22T00:00:00+00:00October 22nd, 2017|Categories: Blog, Community|Comments Off on Oakshott Open Days – how can you resist?

Pots, Jugs and Flowers with Hilary Beattie

We've just had a fantastic weekend at our retreat at the Aztec hotel in Bristol with Hilary Beattie. As you can see from the pictures below all the students produced completely individual interpretations of Hilary's theme for this weekend, which was pots, jugs and flowers. Most were made using materials Hilary provided - they were able to select  materials freely from a  choice of 5 large boxes of fabric and papers and developed their own compositions - so much more versatile that individual kits - thankyou Hilary.

2017-10-17T00:00:00+00:00October 17th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Community|Tags: |Comments Off on Pots, Jugs and Flowers with Hilary Beattie

Under the Edge Quilters

A group of Gloucestershire quilters recently staged an exhibition of their Project Linus quilts. Under the Edge Quilters, based in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, made more than 20 quilts for the charity, which will be distributed to local hospitals to provide a sense of security and comfort to sick and traumatised babies, children and teenagers. The charity's website can be found at https://projectlinusuk.org.uk/

2017-09-16T00:00:00+00:00September 16th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Community|Comments Off on Under the Edge Quilters
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