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12 October 2024 Janine Pound led us on a fun day of dyeing in plastic bags. She had kindly pre-prepared the soda ash and salt solutions required to mix with the Procion MX dyes, as well as pre-mixing a variety of dye colours. So we just had to arrive with pre-washed fabrics and play! Some…

5th October 2024

14 September 2024 When we welcomed Anne Kelly to our meeting on 14 September, I don’t think any of us were prepared for her prolific output! Where does Anne Kelly get her energy? She finds time not only for her distinctive stitched work, but she also writes books, gives talks, runs workshops and exhibits her work…

10 August 2024 There was an excellent turnout for this month’s in-house workshop on Lutradur and Tyvek. Janine, Kathryn and Jane initially shared with us some samples of the possibilities of these materials and then gave us instructions on how to apply heat to each in order to alter the surface to make a pleasing,…

13th July 2024 Steps… And so Mavis gently introduced us into the world of mindfulness, with paper and a pen. “Don’t worry you can’t make a mistake, just keep going”  ……and we were off! Creating “auras” (seemed like shadow quilting to me), “lines can touch but must not cross” map contours appeared, you can add…

8 June 2024 We were very privileged to welcome Rosie James to CQ Surrey for a full day workshop on her machine embroidery techniques.   Firstly, she showed some fabulous examples of her work and allowed us to come and pick them up and get a proper view. Next, she had us trying out different exercises to…

11 May 2024 Today we had a fabulous day hosted by Vicki and Alec Worth. This morning, Vicki provided a show and tell of work produced during the Quilters’ Guild inaugural Master Quilter course. The Master Quilter course came about after the Quilters’ Guild Region 2 (Surrey, Sussex, Kent) was generously gifted the stash of…

27 April 2024 This day was one of our extra workshop days in addition to our regular monthly meetings.  Having been very inspired by Sarah’s talk a fortnight earlier, we returned for a full day workshop with her. Sarah’s book From Collage to Quilt was the basis of her workshop.  We started by cutting up magazines…

11 April 2024 Sarah Hibbert needs little introduction to many as her famous Macaroons quilt graced the cover of the Festival of Quilts show catalogue and poster in 2020 and 2021. Her fabulous (mostly linen based) colourful quilts have won prizes and two of them have been bought by the International Quilt Museum in Nebraska. This…

9 March 2024 We had a full day workshop today learning about various ways to add metallic shine to our textile art. Kathryn Knapp led the workshop and generously provided us all with a huge variety of metallics to work with, as well as background felt and other fabrics.  Firstly, Kathryn undertook a ‘show and…