Quilt As You Go Night and Further News

Last Wednesday evening we had a good time and learned a technique for "quilt as you go" that few of us knew how to do before the workshop. Thanks Carole Auden for passing on your expertise. She found it amusing too!!

We all got started on our place mats in order to master the technique and everyone was looking forward to finishing them off at home.

Christmas Show and Tell - Dec 5th

Our last meeting for 2012 is our Christmas Show and Tell - looking forward to seeing some of the beautiful pieces that you have been working on this year. Please bring a little festive food to share.

First Wombourne Quilters meeting in 2013

Our first meeting in the New Year will be on January 16th. We will keep you all informed about the new programme in the near future.

November and December Programme News

Christmas ‘Quilt as You Go’ place-mat demo and mini workshop - Nov 21st 2012

As promised, Carole Auden is going to demonstrate a simple but very effective Quilt as You Go technique that we used on the Olympic quilt and that has been used on several Linus quilts, shown to the group recently.

If you want to have a go yourself -

Make a large place-mat sized quilt sandwich with one fabric on the top, wadding, and one fabric on the reverse, and each fabric complementing the other.  Red and gold, red and green - whatever takes your fancy or that matches your Christmas colour scheme - silver/white, pearl and old gold seem popular this year - but what do I know!  

Machine quilt the layers together in a random or orderly fashion with whatever colour threads work with both fabrics chosen.

You will need another piece of fabric, in a colour of your choice, to make the Quilt as You Go bindings - to be cut on the night. And pins.

We are providing a couple of sewing machines, cutting boards etc but if you want to bring your own, please do.

Christmas Show and Tell - Dec 5th

Our last meeting for 2012 is our Christmas Show and Tell - looking forward to seeing some of the beautiful pieces that you have been working on this year. Please bring a little festive food to share.

First Wombourne Quilters meeting in 2013

Our first meeting in the New Year will be on January 16th. We will keep you all informed about the new programme in the near future.

Wild Women of Wombourne!

Thank you Gill Biel for the most wonderful evening last Wednesday, making Wild Women brooches (from a book by Sarah Lawrence).
We had a fun evening, with lots of charms and beads provided by Gill, making felt brooches of women of gay abandon!
Our alter egos in some cases?