NEXT MEETING and HAPPY NEW YEAR

Our next meeting is on Monday 27th January .  We have been fortunate enough to secure the Suitcase Collection of the Quilters Guild Contemporary Quilt Group.  The name of this series is "On the Road".  

This is an opportunity to see work by these talented members up close and personal and the quilts are accompanied with working notes on design and inspiration.  We are looking forward to exploring these little works of Art.

The Meeting starts at 10 a.m. with Coffee and biscuits before we explore the contents of the suitcase.

Hope to see plenty of you and always welcome visitors as well as members.

I will post photographs here after the meeting.

Advance Notice  :  The March meeting on the 23rd is an all day workshop with Annette Bolton when she will be taking us through the making of a Redwork Needlebook.  The cost of this workshop is £15 for Members and £20 for visitors.  If you are interested and would like to be put on the workshop list please get in touch.  A £10 deposit will be required from all participants.

The list of requirements will be published as soon as Annette has given them to us.

All day meeting on Monday 25th November

The Meeting taking place on Monday 25th November will be an all day workshop with Ann Jones entitled 'Jazzy Squares'.  Usual time 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.  with a break for refreshments at lunch time.  Please bring your own packed lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.

You will need to bring the following items:

Heat'n'Bond.  18" x 18"  There will be some available to buy on the day if you dont have any,
Pencil
Long Ruler
Strips of gliTzy fabrics 18" x 1 & 1/4 - 2 INCHES e.g. silk, satin, ribbons, gold, silver
Sewing Machine
Sewing kit
Background fabric

The December meeting will be on 16th December.  Please note that this is the third (3rd) Monday not the usual 4th.

This will include the Christmas Challenge (Red and Green)  no big quilts please.
Short workshop with Ann Jones to make a Christmas gnome
Christmas Draw
Festive refreshments organised by the Committee..

For the Christmas gnome you will need to bring:  card and pencil to make template, Scraps of Christmas fabric. Pink felt.Stuffing. Wadding or fluff for beard.  Ribbon for hanging.  Sewing kit.  Machine if desired. PVA glue with fine nozzle.

EXHIBITION 2019

The Bieannual Exhibition of the Hardy Quilters will take place at Osmington Village Hall,  Shortlake Lane, Osmington, Weymouth DT3 6EF on Monday 24th June from 10 a.m - 4 p.m.  Entrance is £3 which includes refreshments so hang on to your ticket!

There will be the usual stalls including Tombola and Demonstrations and of course the wonderful Traders who are going to be with us on the day.  Bits and Bobs who are local and have a lovely shop on the Portland Road, Wyke Regis and SeaHorse who come from further afield and were with us at our last Exhibition.

We have some new members who have joined us within the last twelve months and they will be showing their creations alongside our regular Exhibitors.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing our creativity with you.

NOVEMBER 2018 WORKSHOP

The workshop scheduled for November 26th meeting is with Textile Artist Wendy Hermelin.  This comes highly recommended as Wendy produces the most beautiful work using collage techniques and both hand and machine stitch.
Have a look at her website if you are not familiar with her name.  Try Google!!!

Full details of the requirement list will be published here and on Facebook nearer the date.  The cost is £20 for members and £25 for non-members.  Still places left.

Happy Stitching.

CLAIRE PASSMORE - Workshop on 23rd October.

We are more than pleased to welcome Claire Passmore back to Hardy Quilters for another of her wonderful workshops.

This will be a surface design techniques full day workshop 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. (with a break for Lunch).  The cost will be Members £15 and Non-Members £25.


REQUIREMENTS LIST

Claire will be bringing kits with her at a cost of £6.

Apron.  Small washing up bowl.   Newspaper.  Carrier Bag.  Loo roll.  Rags to clean.  Baby wipes.  Kitchen sponges.  Plain white cotton/polycotton fabric.

4 colours of artist acrylic paint, not little tubes.  Freezer paper.  Masking tape.  Craft knife and spare blades.  Small scissors  Biro and Sharpie type black pens.  Drawing paper. 5B or 6B and 2H or 3H pencils.

Glue Stick.  Old hand towel.  Cutting mat.  Jam jar with lid.  

Many of these things can be shared with friends.  The Works or Range sell cheap acrylic paint.
See Claire's website for more details.  www.clairepassmore.weebly.com

This promises to be an exciting experimental day with one of our favourite Textile Artist/Quilter.

EXHIBITION PICTURES.

Theses are pictures of part of the Exhibition that was set up in memory of Del Whitfield one of our founder members who sadly passed away quite recently.  This is only a fraction of her work.  Many of us had no idea of the extent of her many and varied creations.    She just quietly got on with what she wanted to do without a lot of fuss.  She was very active within the Group and was always off taking part in various workshops.  We miss her very much.

The following pictures are of work by other members of the Hardy Quilters.

Dear Jane quilts made by Sheila Lloyd, Jenny Greenwood and Sue Warwick.

Judie Rothermel Quilt made by Lizzie Drake and long arm quilted by Frances Taylor

Top - Chantal David at Kathryn Chambers workshop

Bottom - Fish by Lizzie Drake at Claire Passmore workshop.  These were workshops held by Hardy Quilters at Osmington Village Hall.

Ann Jones

Guess the name of the Pub challenge

There are more pictures to follow and I will update the credits on this posting.

On behalf of the Committee I would like to express thanks to all those members that volunteered to help during what was two busy days.  We would not have managed without you, and your help was very much appreciated.  So very often it is left to the same people to take the load of all the work and this is just not fair.  Everything is done for the good of the Hardy Quilters and its members therefore it would be very gratifying if more people volunteered to help at times if only to make tea and coffee which is all provided and just amounts to boiling a kettle.

Our next meeting is on Monday September 25th and is the Annual General Meeting, usual time 10 a.m.    After the business there will be a mini workshop led by Ann Jones.

WE ARE BACK

It has been a long time since the last Blog post due to all kinds of unforeseen circumstances but we are back now.
We are staging our Biannual Open Day and Exhibition this weekend and today we had lots of lovely visitors to see all the lovely exhibits and eat some delicious home cooked cakes.
I will post photographs soon.