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,…
8 November 2025 Our November meeting gave us the chance to get up to speed with the planning for the Denbies exhibition in January 2026. A number of members had brought along their Wine Challenge pieces – no pictures here – you will have to wait for our exhibition! All I will say is that…
10 October 2025 Today two members led two very different workshops, and both were a greatsuccess. In the morning Jane Wheeler introduced us to Dorset buttons. Once a huge cottage industry, there are all sorts of designs to be made but the basic assembly and construction is the same. Small rings (curtain rings of any…
13 September 2025 We were lucky enough to have an inspiring talk from Sara Cook today.Sara is probably best known for her interest in Korean textile work and in particular working with translucent textiles influenced by Bojagi. However, her presentation today concentrated on natural dyes and the plants we could all grow at home. She…
9th August 2025 Alison led a workshop based on her learning at a Claire Benn workshop held at InStitches (with Claire’s permission). A lot of us have admired the use of text in quilts and thought it was something we didn’t have the skill to do. I for one have very untidy handwriting at the…
12 July 2025 We gathered in a hot day in July (grateful for the effective fans in our venue!) to share another day of fabric fun. Our first session was the revealing of our earlier challenge to produce a piece of work based on the theme ‘Close to Home’ – a piece with a sense…
14 June 2025 Vanessa Rolf is a local lady who went to school in Bookham and has fond memories of the Barn Hall where we meet each month. She studied fabric and textiles in Birmingham before working in the fashion industry. For a self-confessed ‘free spirit’ the repeat production of butterflies and chrysanthemums proved uninspiring…
10 May 2025 On Saturday we learnt many ways of transferring images to paper and fabric with Chris Marchant. This included the different results of an inkjet or toner printed image, using 100% acetone or acrylic paint or medium, transferring onto tissue, cartridge, art papers and fabric. Also making prints onto freezer paper (the gloss…
12 April 2025 A Design and Colour Workshop with Vicki Worth What a fun morning we had at this meeting. Member-led workshops are always entertaining and with often surprising outcomes! We were asked simply to bring an A4 picture of a landscape and coloured pencils (took some finding, lurking in the back of a cupboard…
8 March 2025 Enormous thanks to Yvonne M and Buffy who provided a brilliant day of wet felting for almost 30 people. It was a great introduction for those who had not tried it before and a brilliant reminder to those who had previously dabbled, to get their wool tops back out. Our show and…
8 February 2025 Our February meeting was filled with excitement and we all had a most enjoyable day. We started with a talk by renowned textile artist Claire Benn who told us about her life, starting as a traditional quilter and moving to dying fabrics using acrylic paint with natural dyes and then soya milk…