April Informal

April Informal

 

 Getting together informally  in between our programme meetings gives us the chance to catch up on our projects, and also everyone's news. This month, as usual, we met at Pat's house in Threlkeld.

 

Various 'UFO' s made an appearance, and a couple of finished pieces, too.

 

 

 

Hard at work!

 

Lyn's quilting.

 

 

Pat's picture made with the embellisher....

 

...and Pat's patchwork.

 

Marilyn's canvaswork.

 

 

Several of us recently enjoyed a Quilters' Guild workshop, led by Yvonne Brown.

We were delighted by the results, and learned a lot making the designs, using a soldering iron and a heat gun as well as more conventional patchwork and quilting. Here are two of the 'tiles'.

(Just in case you were wondering....it is the camera angle which makes these look a bit lop-sided; all the points are actually right, and the tiles are square!) 

 

 

 

Zena's Easter chick

 

Lena's seed pod, from Shirley McKeand's workshop.

 

 

Instead of our shared lunch, we went along to Threlkeld Village Hall, just up the road, to test out the newly refurbished coffee shop, and to look at the wall-hanging that villagers including Pat have made. if you are in the area, it's a good place to stop for lunch, for the stunning views, and to look at the lovely wallhanging.

 

 

Tomorrow, 17th is our April meeting, when we will welcome Elizabeth Wall, textile artist, who is leading us in a workshop. More of this in due course.