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Open morning
To celebrate our 40th anniversary we are holding an Open Morning for all former, current and potential new members to join us on Monday 27th June in St Andrew’s Church between 10 and 12. 
We will be having a ‘Show and Tell’ session of patchwork and quilting items that members have made either in the past or recently. Visitors are welcome to bring items along or just come along and chat to the makers to find out more about this fascinating hobby. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available, along with a chance to catch up with old friends and meet new people.
Please contact Ann Purdy on 02380843759 or Alison Smith on 02380894835 or via our contact form to find out more.

Nine members and a guest enjoyed a day sewing on Saturday 15th January, the first one for two years! Thanks went to Alison for organising the day and providing the coffee and cakes!

There was a wide variety of projects being sewn, some new, others unfinished items that have been around for a while! Many of the quilts are destined for charities, such the ones Alison makes for Linus and June’s one for care leavers, others were being made for family members. Carol was hand quilting a beautiful quilt with a dragon centre and camouflage backing for a teenage grandson while Joyce was putting together a scrap quilt in shades of pink based on ocean waves for her granddaughter. Jan was starting a quilt using material that had been in her cupboard for about four years! Ann Purdy and Anne Wellington both took the opportunity to finish quilts started before lockdown.

Apart from quilts, Judy was making water bottle holders to be sold for the Waterside Bowls club funds, Yvonne put together some rabbit and hare cushion covers and Jill tackled a bag using the Bargello technique.

Once the items are completed they will be added to the Show-n-Tell page.

Even the weather was good and nobody got wet taking sewing machines etc to and from cars. All looking forward to the next Saturday session.