Sewing Happily Since 1989
Despite the first evening meeting of the New Year being extremely foggy 13 members braved the elements to attend and enjoyed an evening chatting and working on their individual projects.
Pat distributed the second set of instructions for her block of the month Sampler quilt. Some members had already completed their first block and shared it with the group.
Despite the threat of impending snow, the traditional first Saturday in January Sew Day was surprisingly well attended.
Pat Dearden started her block of the month, with a good uptake by members.
Alyson Wells showed a pattern and fabric requirements for her Christmas block of the month to start in April/May.
It was lovely catching up with everyone’s news and being able to have uninterrupted sewing time.
The final meeting of the year was the annual Christmas Social, a time to relax, have fun and enjoy the refreshments brought to share.
The evening started with members puzzling over two quizzes. Then chairs were formed in a circle to play a game. Each member had brought either a novelty bauble or a pretty one and the object of the game was to try and steal from each other a bauble that you would like to take home. This elicited much laughter and cunning until everyone had a new bauble. After all the laughter and excitement of the game we enjoyed the delicious refreshments, accompanied with mulled wine, tea or coffee.
Thank you Kate for organising the quizzes and Carol for organising the Bauble game. Thanks also go to all members for the delicious refreshments. What a lovely way to end the year. All that was left was to wish each other a Happy Christmas and look forward to meeting again in 2025 for another year of productive sewing.
Appliqued Snowman Cushion or quilt block or bag panel
Despite the dreadful weather 12 intrepid members braved the conditions and met for the evening. Whilst some members worked on their individual projects others took part in Maggie’s mini workshop and had great fun making a Snowman block that could be turned into a cushion, bag or other item of their choice. Thank you Maggie for running a well prepared, fun workshop. Let’s hope the weather is better for the next meeting.
Owing to the cancellation of the last meeting due to the inclement weather and flooding it was lovely to see so many new and old members attending this evening.
Kate had brought along several samples of her No Sew Bauble and gave detailed instructions how members could make one of their own. Members then began cutting and folding fabric which was then pinned to the polystyrene balls that Kate had supplied. It was interesting to see the variety of fabrics being used, some members had chosen to make a traditional Christmas themed bauble whilst others planned to make a bauble for a different occasion.
Our thanks go to Kate helping and guiding us with this mini workshop and making it a very pleasant and cheerful evening.
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