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Judi Kirk – Quilt Judging and Entering Quilt Competitions
10 February 2024 Today we were privileged to have Judi Kirk visit us for both the morning presentation and afternoon workshop. Judi is a qualified quilt judge and a member of the Quilters’ Guild Judging Committee. She has the big task of organising the judges for the largest quilt festival in Europe, The Festival of…
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Doreen Plumridge – Colourwash Technique, using Bleach on Liberty Fabrics
13 January 2024 Doreen was a very entertaining speaker as well as a gifted quilter. Doreen has been quilting for decades and started Guildford Quilters’ some 40 years ago! She brought many, many quilts with her, demonstrating the use of her method of colour washing fabric. She had been fortunate to acquire a lot of Liberty small…
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2023 – The First Year of CQ Surrey
Wow, what a year it was! At Festival of Quilts 2022 a conversation took place bemoaning the lack of a contemporary quilt group in the Surrey and Sussex area, so Annie Henderson-Begg, Sue Norgrove-Moore, Deena Goff and Janine Pound got together that autumn to begin to turn the idea into reality. A constitution was written,…