[STOP PRESS Information for those travelling to the venue...
The country bound lanes of the Sydenham bypass from Dee Street to George Best City Airport will be closed from 11pm Friday 6th March to 4.30 am Monday 9th March].
Hello Everyone
March Meeting and Sunday Workshop
March will be a busy month for the guild. Beginning with our regular Saturday meeting on 7th March, when we will welcome Janet McCallum to tell us `How I got here`.
There is no workshop on Saturday, however, on Sunday Janet`s workshop will help us to `Loosen Up`, by using some of our fabric stashes to make innovative pieced blocks. Spaces are available and I suspect that everyone already has the requirements at home.
Loosen Up: A quick and easy way to use up your scraps and produce a striking individual quilt. A quick piecing, machine sewn, scrap quilt technique suitable for all level and ideal for using up leftover strips and sample squares. Can also be made with purpose bought fabric.In a day, you should be able to produce enough blocks for a cushion cover or cot quilt. A relaxed method with no templates, no measuring and hardly any rules!
Janet is a member of By Design , a group of twelve leading textile artists from the south of England, brought together to form an impressive exhibition group. All the members are well known artists in their own right, working individually to create their own pieces of quilt art.
Charity Table
In March there will be a charity table when members are invited to bring along items of patchwork and sewing interest( preferably priced) that they would like to re-home. Proceeds will go to our charity of the year, Air Ambulance, Northern Ireland. Donors are asked to take home again any unsold items.
Quilt Fayre
March is the month of the Quilt Fayre in Stormont hotel on 26th, 27th and 28th. Anna Campbell has generously volunteered to receive items for our mini exhibition, ( A4 size or not bigger than about 12 inches square) please do remember to put your name on the back.
I will be giving out complementary tickets to those who have volunteered for stand duty – I’ve got a little list – so please don’t go home without your free pass. Do tell all your friends about Quilt Fayre, there are over 24 traders. many from Ireland, the list is on Quilt Fayre website- https://www.quiltfayre.com/ I will definitely be visiting Kaleidoscope.
April Meeting
Looking forward to April we will welcome Angela Daymond for a weekend of Kantha work. Spaces are still available on her workshop.
Looking forward to seeing you in March
Anne Hardcastle
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