Knickers: a history of underwear

Liza Jones gave a humorous presentation on the history of women’s underwear, illustrated with items of historical interest! She contributes funds raised from her presentations to the East Anglia Air ambulance.

Rosemary Muntus - October

Rosemary gave a fascinating talk about “Boro”, derived from the Japanese tradition of sewing patches on worn items. Her talk was illustrated with items of boro work done by Rosemary, Janice Gunner and others. She explained how the rhythm of stitching boro can promote well-being.

Julia Gahagan -September

Julia gave a fascinating presentation on her passion for miniature quilts and the techniques she uses to create them.

Mark Francis - June

Mark, who had been a quarter finalist on “The Great British Sewing Bee”, talked about his early introduction to sewing as a boy and discussed his experiences whilst taking part in the show.

Sarah Humphreys - May

Sarah explained how she used technology to good effect when preparing her quilts, including discussing the option to use specific software to design her quilts.

Alicia Merrett -April

Alicia gave us a fascinating talk about her journey as a quilter. We were pleased to welcome several visitors for this evening’s talk on Zoom.

Richard Box - February

Richard gave us a very entertaining talk, showing us how he designed and created his marvellous embroidered pictures.

Other online events

Members may be interested in other online events, which are detailed in the newsletter:

• Julia Gahagan’s Christmas mini-quilts - Thursday 12th November

• Quilters’ Guild Region 1: Irene Roderick - Saturday 5th December (book before 19th November)

• Essex & Suffolk Quilters’ programme - 12 November - 11 February.

3rd December meeting

Jennie Rayment will present a Zoom workshop “Something Christmassy”, including re-usable Christmas Crackers and a unique table mat.

Maria Spiller: circular sewing

Maria Spiller led a mini workshop looking at circular sewing, with a view to making Scandinavian-style Christmas tree decorations.

Visitors welcome!

As we are unable to meet in person, the Committee has arranged a programme of meetings on Zoom, including some with guest speakers who will be leading workshops - so remember to come prepared! Details will be sent out to members in advance. Anyone who would like to join one or more of our Zoom meetings as a visitor is welcome to join us. There will be a visitors’ fee of £5. Please use the contact from on the Home page to request a link.

Judi Mendelssohn - a quilting journey

Judi was our first guest speaker at the zoom meeting on 1st October. She gave us a fascinating account of her travels leading groups of quilters across the world, visiting quilt exhibitions and eminent quilting teachers. Highlights included visits to Paducah, Kentucky, the outdoor quilt show in Oregon, the Nantes quilt show and the Tokyo quilt show. Her photographs whetted our appetites for when normal service resumes!

English Paper Piecing – so much more than hexagons!

What a fascinating evening with Nancy Adamek as she share her quilting journey to her destination of English Paper piecing which eventually led her to setting up her own business. She shared many of the quilts she had made, her successes and ones she considered less than perfect (n.b. they all looked good!) and many of those present were inspired to give English Paper piecing a try. Find out more at http://www.linapatchwork.com

Quilt Show 2019

Did you miss this year’s quilt show? Visited but want to see the quilts again? Looking for inspiration from your members?

Good news! The quilts have now been uploaded to the website.

If one of your quilts was on show back in June and you cannot see it on the website, please let us know via the contact form and we will add it.

Quilted Postcards

At our October meeting we were pleased to welcome Maria Spiller from Warley and Childerditch Quilters demonstrating quilted postcards. This is a beautiful and simple way of sending personalised greetings that will give great pleasure to the receiver. Maria brought a few samples from her own collection, some antique, some modern, some that were made as part of a postcard exchange challenge.

Quilts for Richard House Children’s Hospice

Marsh Quilters were invited to make some items for a special room called ‘The Rainbow Room’. They included a single bed quilt, a cot quilt and two cushions.
Richard House Children’s hospice supports families in London whose children and young adults are at risk of death from a life limiting health condition.

The Rainbow theme is used in all children’s hospices and the blue house is their logo.
Many of our members were involved with making these items from the initial design to sewing  and quilting each piece.

Christmas Challenge 2017

We had great fun at our Christmas party at the beginning of December when members also brought their Christmas challenge pieces with them. Members voted during the evening for their favourite one and at the end of the evening Kathy Duffy came through victorious! Well done Kathy.