Our meeting on 11 April 2026 was a fun whole–day workshop on using Lutradur led by Kathryn Knapp with assistance from Buffy Fieldhouse. Kathryn demonstrated how to create Lutradur lanterns and how to make delicate Lutradur leaves. For the leaves, Kathryn brought Thermofax stencils, which we used to push ExpandIt through onto the Lutradur base. Then we…
14th March 2026 Wow – what a turnout. This meeting was better attended than any we have held before. Thank you to everyone for your patience as we signed -n visitors and rearranged the room to add extra chairs. Today we were treated to a fascinating and humorous talk by Rosemary Hufton (@rosemaryhufton) with an amazing array…
14 February 2026 Guest speaker: Richard McVetis Whilst quilting is in our group name, we’re a broad textile church, and manymembers have an embroidery background. Richard’s distinctive spare andmonochrome style is intriguing and it was fascinating to hear about his inspiration and process in an entertaining talk. An artist, designer and painter as well as…
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…