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.

At 8.30 on Saturday 28th June, thirty members and friends boarded the coach in Emsworth Square and made our way, via Basingstoke to Lady Sew and Sew in Henley. Most of us hadn’t been there before and were absolutely wowed at the huge variety of fabrics available. Reactions varied between those who dashed around like ‘a child in a sweet shop’ and those who were paralysed like ‘rabbits in the headlights’! The whole day was so much fun, sharing each other’s excitement over purchases as well as indulging our own ‘need’ to own some of the beautiful
products available. The staff were great; friendly, welcoming and incredibly helpful. Tea and coffee were available all day but the glass of Prosecco was the icing on the cake!

We’re all now asking, “Where are we going next?”

Bourne Quilters Members are so productive that there isn’t room in our newsletter to include pictures of all the lovely items that are brought to our monthly meetings for show and tell. So we now have a dedicated page on our website: Show and Tell where you can see more examples of everyone’s work.

We plan to update this regularly.