Saturday 15 August 2015

Exhibition of Embroidery and Textile Art 2015

We are holding an exhibition of our embroidery and textile art pieces, made over the past year, on Saturday 5th September at the Methodist Hall, Grange over Sands.As well as the exhibition there will be refreshments, craft stall and raffle.
The date will soon be with us so please don't forget to bring your exhibition pieces either to the meeting on Tuesday 1st September or Friday evening at the hall.
Any offerings for the raffle or craft stall will be gratefully received.

Sunday 9 August 2015

The Festival of Quilts August 2015

I travelled down to to the NEC early on Thurday morning with my shopping list in my hand and hoping to see some beautiful and interesting quilts. 
I was not disappointed but I had never seen the queues so long. To enter I had to join a queue which snaked all around the floor for about 15mins before I could get in! There were also queues at many of the stalls in order to pay!
I got everything on my list and here are just a few of the quilts pictured below.














 As I was wandering around, who did I bump into but Mary ready for action with her steward's sash and white gloves.

The Festival of quilts is always worth a visit both for the ideas it generates and picking up things to buy that are not easy to get at home. It was a good day but very tiring.