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Anne James reporting on our September Meeting.

[If anyone is willing to take a few photos and provide an update of our events, please contact us.]

lydia-uganda
The September meeting was called ‘Reaching Out’, referring to our interaction with communities.

Lydia Black, who is taking her A-levels this year, talked about her trip to a village and school in Uganda to help local girls. Lydia’s group provided the Ugandan girls with with much needed clothes. She also brought with her reusable sanitary protection, which Brenda Richardson and I had helped to make.

Wave Quilt

Angela McCormick and Pat Pauley facilitated the making of the Belfast WAVE quilt.

Instead of making one large quilt, they decided that a triptych worked much better. Each panel shows the thoughts and concerns from the women who took part.

Chair’s Charity

Each year the current Chair can nominate a Charity of their choice. At every meeting we have a Ballot, and the money is collected at the end of the season.

So, this year we were delighted to present a cheque for £650 to Elizabeth DIckson, Chair of the Board of Quaker Service to be given to the Quaker Cottage, a cross-community family day care centre in North and West Belfast.

–Show and Tell, was the usual riot of colour and quilts! Sadly we weren’t able to take any photos, but if anyone would like to submit photos of recently finished quilts, we’d be delighted to post them here.

Folk Museum’s Craft and Skills Sunday.
On the Sunday, Jan Kirkwood and I demonstrated patchwork at the Folk and Transport Museum. We were busy all day and really enjoyed showing the visitors what we do.

Jan had brought a hand-operated Singer sewing machine with her, which proved very popular with children!