The Annual General Meeting for 2025 will take place on Monday 1st December at Emsworth Community Centre at 7.00pm followed by our Christmas Party.

You are asked to bring a SMALL plate of finger food/nibbles for us to share. Mulled wine (including non alcoholic) will be available. We will not be running the destash table or library, but there will be a festive raffle and Show and Tell

As there is still a lot of building work going on at the community centre, there is no parking available directly outside. There are usually plenty of spaces in the car park behind Tesco.

We hope that you can join us.

At our September meeting, Richard Riordan told us about the upcoming QG Regional Day to be held in Chichester on 15th November. Click here for more information on the QG website

The following details have been supplied by Gill Riordan, the organiser of the event.

Earlybird ticket prices end for purchase of day tickets to Chichester regional day on 30^th September.

Your ticket covers the following:

Talk by Joy Harber ‘’An Obsession with Log Cabin’’

Talk by Sally Ablett on working with Lewis and Irene fabrics.

Lunchtime activities (may have a kit cost) booked on the day with Maria Hearn, Sally Ablett and Trish Grammer.

Stallholders include Falcon fabrics, Fabricatrading, Stitching Post, Kallosphere, Linda Miller, Burning issues, Chalkhillblues, sew Creative, Linus, Sugar bowl crafts and Jules longarm quilting.

The main exhibition will be work of students of the Master Quilter course. We will have other exhibits including Mavis Walker’s fabric chess set and local block of the month work.

Of course we have refreshments, the college bistro, the massive raffle and the huge de-stash table.

REMEMBER to bring your mini quilt entry on ‘New Growth’

Early tickets £15/18 non-members

Standard tickets £20/25non members

Tickets are available from regional treasurer, email treasurer_reg2@quiltersguild.org.uk with your ticket requirements.

BACS payment details are QGBI, sort 60-83-01, a/c 20323990 ref CHI25 your name

We have updated the website to include a Hints and Tips page. Our first article is on cleaning your sewing machine. You can find the page Here or from the main menu at the top of the page. If you have any hints or tips that you would like to share then use the Contact us page to let us know so that we can see how it can be shared.

on 5th April, over 30 enthusiastic BQ members converged on Westbourne Parish Centre for a fun day sewing a variety of small quilts destined for the special care baby unit at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. This was the perfect opportunity for both experienced sewers and newer sewers to learn from each other.
At the end of the day everyone was well on their way to producing a lovely quilt. We look forward to seeing the finished items at our show and tell