Today, 31st January, Bourne Quilters held their first ever bag workshop. What better way to chase away the winter blues than spending the day sewing with like minded people. There were four options available. A backpack, shopping bag with zipped pocket, small bag with drawstring top and a jelly roll bag. They were all demonstrated by our talented members Wendda, Valerie, Sandie and Lesley – many thanks to them for all their hard work. By the end of the day quite a few people had finished their bags and the remainder were well on their way. We look forward to seeing the finished items at ‘show and tell’ at our next meeting on Monday.

Membership subscriptions are due now. Thank you to all members who have already renewed.

• If you are currently a member, you wish to renew and none of your contact details have changed,
  please pay £30 for your 2026 membership, preferably via Bank transfer to :
  Account Name: Bourne Quilters
  Sort Code: 20-69-34
  Account Number: 40594628
• Please put MEMBERSHIP26 in the reference, the bank will pass your name with the payment.
• If your contact details have changed, please fill in the renewal form which can be found on the Forms page and email it to members@bournequilters.com
• You can also pay by cheque which should be made payable to Bourne Quilters. Cheques can be mailed to : Rita Duncan, Bourne Quilters, 9 Lindens Close, Emsworth PO10 7PY.
• If you are currently a member and will NOT be renewing your membership for 2026, please send an email to members@bournequilters.com to say that you will not be renewing as we have several people waiting to join the group.

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