February Meeting

February

Speaker: Ray Moore (Eastern Branch)

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Show and Tell:
Siobhan Bermingham showed this lovely quilt made from football tops.

Ursula displayed this fabulous Amish inspired quilt which has been 10 years on the go. 

Alison Bingham showed this lovely cushion cover.

February meeting Show and Tell

There were a number of items on display for the show and tell...

Quilt by Kate O'Donoghue

Baby quilt (not sure who made this one!!)

Quilt by Gillian Sheehan for one of her grandchildren.

Quilt by Gillian Killick which was made using Amish-panels. This quilt has been on the go a long time, Rebecca Palmer did the quilting on this one for Gillian.

February meeting

For our February meeting, we had a hand-piecing work-night with the emphasis on e

English paper-piecing.

Grania Preston gave a demo on "fandango's" (folded units but into patchwork blocks).

Claire Lynch gave a demo on English paper-piecing (hexagons) and showed paper-piecing samples from her City & Guilds course work.

Gillian Killick also did a demo on hexagons and showed a hexagon quilt that was started in the 1980's. Gillian also had a number of samples using hexagons in a variety of different ways e.g. tree blocks with the hexagons used to the foliage...

Nora O'Connor also gave a demo on paper-piecing and had some lovely samples to show.

The challenges were UFO's (carried over from January's meeting) and 10" pink blocks (for the February challenge).

Next meeting: Friday 10th February

Our next meeting is on this Friday 10th February.


This month's topic is on hearts, hexagons and handwork, so we're asking all members to bring in some hand-work project to work on for the night. If you're made anything using english paper-piecing (eg. hexagons), hand applique etc. bring it on the night for show and tell..

Please bring your hand sewing supplies i.e. needle/thread/little scissors and some scraps to make hexagons (at least 3" square.).

Almost every patchworker has started a hexagon paper-pieced project at some stage. If you're got some (whether they're finshed or not!) bring it in for Friday night.


February's challenge is a 10" pink block on the theme of Valentines..

 New members always welcome!!