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27 April 2024 This day was one of our extra workshop days in addition to our regular monthly meetings.  Having been very inspired by Sarah’s talk a fortnight earlier, we returned for a full day workshop with her. Sarah’s book From Collage to Quilt was the basis of her workshop.  We started by cutting up magazines…

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…

Wow, what a year it was! At Festival of Quilts 2022 a conversation took place bemoaning the lack of a contemporary quilt group in the Surrey and Sussex area, so Annie Henderson-Begg, Sue Norgrove-Moore, Deena Goff and Janine Pound got together that autumn to begin to turn the idea into reality. A constitution was written,…