History
The group was formed in the early 1980's by eight friends who had attended Quilting classes and wanted to continue meeting regularly after their sewing course had finished. For several years meetings were held in each others' houses, but when word spread and more people wanted to join, it was necessary to move into a church hall for extra space. The monthly meetings were increased to fortnightly as enthusiasm grew. Membership gradually changed over the years, there are currently over 20 members and the meetings are always very friendly, with lots of chat as well as sewing.
In 2012 the group made a quilt for the national "Gift of Quilts" project. It was decided to present one quilt to each country participating at both the 2012 Olympic Games and the Paralympics. The team from Turkey will receive our quilt. All of the quilts were on display at Olympia and all are also featured in a book.
Fame at last!! We managed to get our photo in the 2002 Patchwork & Quilting Magazine.
Group project quilt made for breast cancer awareness and donated to The Waterside Cancer Support Centre. The photo shows it being presented to June Ritchins from the Centre and the quilt is now hung in the Support Centre treatment room.
Barbara Saunders visited Dubai and went to a meeting of the Quilters Guild. She was invited to join a small house group and this is the group with their work.
