Tockwith Show

Today we're at the Tockwith Show with a display of quilts made by group members. We've drawn quite a lot of interest and compliments on our skills! Norma is pictured at our stand where we also had information leaflets for visitors. We've been encouraging people to come along to our group meetings and also to join us on our trip to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham on 22nd August.

Here are some more photos of the quilts on display:

The highlight of the morning was Norma being interviewed live on air on the local radio station 'Tempo FM'. She did a grand job of answering questions about what we do and managed to give a plug for our coach trip too - brilliant!!

Group Photo!

 Here we are!I say 'we' but someone had to operate the camera so I managed to stay out of the frame! Unfortunately lots of members are on holiday this month so we look to be a small group - we usually have many more attending. We'll have to have another group picture later in the year.

Still, we had fun with our news and  show and tell around one large table. Here are some of the quilts we shared:

Jean finished her circles quilt from the workshop earlier this month - it's beautiful! She added extra small circles and arranged the half square triangles to make diagonal stripes in the background.

Heather made this stunning landscape inspired by a trip to Scotland. She hasn't been quilting long but produces amazing work. Click on the picture to see her lovely free motion quilting.

Another landscape made by Freda. Doesn't it make you just want to step into the picture?

Joan brought this gorgeous Magnolia applique from a workshop by  Claire Tinsley of Hannah's Room.
She also showed us this fantastic miniature sampler quilt:

The blocks are 3" square! We're having a miniature quilt workshop on October 9th. Please contact us if you'd like to come along.

Finally today here's Pam's latest work in progress. Pam has injured her arm and is feeling very frustrated as the quilt is layered and pinned but she can't quilt it until she recovers.

We did talk about Christmas quilts and gifts too - more on that another time!

Hazel

Festival of Quilts

We're going to the Festival of Quilts! Would you like to come too?

We've organised a coach to take us on Sunday 22nd August picking up from Tadcaster and Boston Spa. The cost of the trip is only £21 including admission to the show and Quilters Guild members get a £1 discount! Anyone is welcome to join us on this trip so if you're interested please click here to contact us.

Going Round in Circles!

Today Tuesday Quilters had a workshop taught by Janet Crossley. We worked on a 'Circles and Triangles' quilt of easy and quick blocks made by piecing half square triangles in contrasting colours and then fusing circle on top. I chose a dark purple and white fro the triangles and a multicoloured batik for the circles. Janet brought some samples to show us:

Everyone worked very hard and we got loads of blocks finished! I love workshops like this because it's fascinating to see which colours everyone has chosen. I always think they have made better choices than me!
Here are just a few:

Norma chose lovely warm colours.

Jean had gorgeous oriental fabrics.

Janet chose creamy yellow and raspberry to tone with her focus fabric.

Sue's green and black triangle were a perfect background for this beautiful floral.

Mandy chose vibrant batiks in purple and lime.

I found a multocolour batik to go with my purple and white.

As you can see it was lots of fun! I'm really looking forward to seeing some finished quilts - will they be ready for show and tell at the next meeting?

Happy Quilting!

Hazel

Tessellated Tuesday!

Our May theme was 'Tessellations' and June gave us a fantastic demonstration of how to put together the quilt shown above, helped by her lovely assisstant Norma. Thank you both for patiently showing this 3 times so everyone good see!

We had a show and tell as usual so here is a gallery of some of the quilts:

Eileen's scrap quilt. Her clever use of colour has created diamonds in light medium and dark shades.

June's Linus quilt has lovely nine patch blocks and freemotion quilting in the sashing.

Who made this lovely quilt? Can you see that the background is made from hexagons?

Hazel's little quilt is a tessellation of leaf shapes.

Tumbling blocks -a really easy quilt especially if you cut the shapes on a Go!

Next month our them will be Log Cabins so please bring along any examples you have - any size, shape and colour as well as your latest projects fro show and tell.

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