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At our sit & sew we had a visit from Rachel Buchanan who spent the evening chatting to members of the group to get their opinions. She is the Programme Development Manager for the Cultural Consortium in Leominster – see their temporary webpage here https://leominsterfestival.org/leominster-roars/. They are surveying residents in Leominster about what they think of Leominster and what cultural activities they do, in order to plan some cultural activities over the next couple of years as part of the Historic England project. They want to make sure they meet a wide range of people from the whole community so they thought our group would be great to talk to, particularly if we might be interested in joining in with some creative projects in the next couple of years.

We started the new year on 8^th January with our “Sew Saturday”. It was a pleasant day. 12 members turned up (bringing their own packed lunches). It was lovely to do something normal, but we missed Pat’s soup.

19^th January 2022 – at our first Wednesday meeting of the year we had a sit and sew and part 1 of our “Easter Challenge” was handed out.

2^nd February 2022 – we had a talk from Zoe Acketts of Paint-Box Threads at Bircher with 25-30 in attendance. Zoe was full of enthusiasm for dyeing and weaving. She gave an interesting insight into weaving and setting up her thread dyeing business.

16^th February 2022 – the AGM was followed by a mini workshop to make name badges that can be worn to meetings to help everyone get to know each other. Part 2 of our “Easter Challenge” was handed out.

2^nd March 2022 – should have been Karen Perry talking to us about Fiddle Quilts (memory quilts for those suffering from dementia). Unfortunately she had to cancel at the last minute so we had a sit, sew and chat evening.

On 6^th October 2021 – we had very select little band at our Sit and Sew with 13 members participating.

On 20^th October 2021 – was very interesting talk from our speaker Jackie Partridge from the Make-it Happen shop in Maylord Orchard.  Jackie has a very interesting background in fashion and costume.

3^rd November 2021 – Sit and Sew

17^th November 2021 – another Sit and Sew which was a very pleasant evening with about 15 attendees including 3 new members. We all introduced ourselves and our background in fabrics. Those present voted unanimously to have a normal Christmas ‘Do’ with bring and share supper and if at all possible hold a Christmas card challenge or everyone bring a Christmas item that they have made in the last 30 years! They also voted to have a Saturday sewing day in the New Year to reboot the sewing 🧵 calendar. 

1^st December 2021 – The Christmas ‘Do’ – a very enjoyable evening with some beautiful Christmas projects entered into the penny vote.  Just about everyone who attended brought a piece of work to enter. We had a quiz and very enjoyable “bring & share” festive refreshments

We held our first face to face meeting on the evening of 4^th August with 21 members attending.  The show and tell was a great ice breaker and members have certainly been busy during the last year or so with some amazing and varied items shown.

We held our second face to face meeting on 18^th August with 19 members attending.  Some of Angela Howard’s fabrics/books etc. were brought to the meeting and sold on her husband’s behalf to raise money for St Michael’s Hospice.  We have been informed that £137.50 was raised.  Thank you to all who contributed.

A very select little band of 7 met on 1^st August.  Hopefully this is simply because some of you are away etc. it being so close to the bank holiday.

I’d like to thank Kate for hosting our ‘Show and Tell’ meeting by Zoom on Wednesday 21st October. It was nice to catch up with everyone and see their quilts. Hopefully we’ll get some more meetings set up over the winter months.

Lyn thought I should mention that she accidently left the meeting while trying to share a photograph!  So it doesn’t matter if you get it wrong, we’re all learning to use modern technology to “meet up” and enjoy each others company. Maybe more of you might join next time. 

As you will have heard Angela is no longer able to administer the website and I’d like to thank her for the good job she’s been doing.

The good news is the website is no longer on hold as I have now taken it on. Although I’ve worked with computers for over forty years I never worked with website design or administration so this is something new for me. I may not get it right to begin with as I work out how to do it, but it just needs practice.

If anyone has photos of their lockdown projects, “blocks of the month”, “summer challenge” or any other suggestions for the website they can now be sent to me.

Keep quilting and stay safe.

Rachel