2024

11 April 2024 Sarah Hibbert needs little introduction to many as her famous Macaroons quilt graced the cover of the Festival of Quilts show catalogue and poster in 2020 and 2021. Her fabulous (mostly linen based) colourful quilts have won prizes and two of them have been bought by the International Quilt Museum in Nebraska. This…

9 March 2024 We had a full day workshop today learning about various ways to add metallic shine to our textile art. Kathryn Knapp led the workshop and generously provided us all with a huge variety of metallics to work with, as well as background felt and other fabrics.  Firstly, Kathryn undertook a ‘show and…

10 February 2024 Today we were privileged to have Judi Kirk visit us for both the morning presentation and afternoon workshop. Judi is a qualified quilt judge and a member of the Quilters’ Guild Judging Committee. She has the big task of organising the judges for the largest quilt festival in Europe, The Festival of…

13 January 2024 Doreen was a very entertaining speaker as well as a gifted quilter. Doreen has been quilting for decades and started Guildford Quilters’ some 40 years ago! She brought many, many quilts with her, demonstrating the use of her method of colour washing fabric. She had been fortunate to acquire a lot of Liberty small…