Notice Board

Found Earing

At the end of the Open Day meeting of SWQ at Tresillian on November 19th a solid silver tear drop earing was found. As there was no one in the hall prviously we assume it belongs to one of our members. If you have lost this earing please contact Pat twigg on 01208 77156. it is being kept safe and will be taken to the New year party at tresillain on January 14th 2012.

Christmas 2012 Challenge

Pam Smith the winner of the 2011 Christmas Challenge 'an Advent Calendar' has chosen the Challenge for next Christmas Meeting November 2012 - ‘Angels, Angels all around’. Title taken from the book by Bob Hartman.

Dorset Workshops

We would like to thank all of you that have supported our first year as Dorset Reps & hope you have enjoyed the workshops we have had at Portesham. We have some excellent ones booked for 2012. We have a return visit from both Anne Baxter on Sat March 10th & Katharine Guerrier will be with us again on Sat 21st April. On Sunday 22nd April she will be doing a workshop for Christine Badger in the Exeter area. Details in the December magazine.
Thank you again for your support,
Maggie & Desira

Bridestowe Workshops

These are held in a fairly new Community Hall with excellent facilities and a very distracting view across Dartmoor. As some members are not sure where the Bridestowe Village Hall is, I thought a little explanation might be helpful. It is situated near Okehampton, if coming along the A30 from Exeter, take the turning off to Tavistock, at the end of the slip road turn right, then left, signed to Bridestowe. The hall is about 2 miles on the left opposite a garage. You may see a notice that says Tree Tops Nursery, turn into that car park. When coming from Launceston direction along the A30 take the turning again to Tavistock, turn right go under the bridge and turn immediately right, the hall is about 2 miles along on the left. If you are coming down the A386 from North Devon it is well signed and you will need to turn right after passing under the A30 bridge. If coming from South Devon along the A386 you need to turn left just before the A30 bridge. If you use a SatNav the postcode is EX20 4EW.
Do come and join us and have a very enjoyable day with excellent Tutors and good company.”
2012 – Bridestowe Village Hall, EX20 4EG
3rd March 2012 - “Cuddle Quilt” with Carole Sedgley
12th May Lyn Carr - see Spring Magazine for Topic
18th June Katharine Guerrier - Full details to follow.
22nd September Anne Baxter - Full details to follow.
13th October Kate Dowty - Full details to follow
10th November Three Corner Day - Speaker Lyn Carr

Rowan Tree Studio, Clovelly, Devon

Rowan Tree Studio is based just outside picturesque Clovelly village in North Devon, we have a beautiful purpose built studio where we offer a variety of craft workshops including patchwork and quilting by hand and machine. We have brand new sewing machines for our students to use and many of our courses include materials and lovely cream teas not to mention great views. We are running a regular knit and stitch group for all crafters and in particular a quilting bee for local quilters and those lucky enough to be holidaying in this part of the world. For more details of our classes and groups contact Sarah Harper on 01237 431942 or sarah@rowantreestudio.co.uk. http://www.rowantreestudio.co.uk/

Gunnislake Learning Centre - October 2011

Hi, In October 2011 I will be opening a new Centre for Learning in Gunnislake, providing courses and workshops in cookery, sewing, art, craft and everything that's fun and stimulating. I'm working hard to establish the infrastructure of the business and identify potential tutors who would like to come and deliver courses from basic and beginner to devlop and challenge. One-off, seasonal or block, one or two hours to three or four days. Project-based or thematic. I wondered if any of your tutors would be interested and if so, I'd love to hear from you. I'm looking to build a calendar of courses to Dec 12, to start promotion and marketing in earnest from 1st August. I hope some of your members will be interested and very much look forward to hearing from anyone who wants to discuss further.
Jay Hooper
Tel: 01822610217

2012 SWQ Exhibition at Westpoint: Tombola

Next year (2012) at Westpoint on our stand we are proposing to run a tombola using bags as we did two years ago. Please have a look through your UFO items and see whether you have bag or bags you could give to SWQ for their stand next year. Any size, colour, shape for adults or children will be gratefully appreciated. Please bring any bags to the Summer Day or the Christmas Meeting.
Further details contact Christine Badger 01404 44151

GROUP BANNERS

An appeal again for group banners, after the wonderful display we had on the Westpoint Quilt Show stand and also at the AGM we need more banners to be displayed at our meetings and also for next year at Westpoint.
I am very pleased to store them and would appreciate if these banners were donated to SWQ for this purpose.
So that the stand at Westpoint can be as impressive as possible I need any banner that your group is prepared to make for us by Saturday 24 March 2012 at the latest. The banner needs to be 18” wide and 36” long with the name of your group and the town where you meet on the front; also it needs a hanging sleeve on the back of the top. Also I would like a label on the back of the banner with the place and day where you meet, and also a contact telephone number. If your group can help please let me know.
Christine Badger 01404 44151

Spring Quilt Show 2012

To mark 60 years of the Queen’s reign the Diamond Jubilee will take place in 2012.
SWQ challenge for the Spring Quilt show at Westpoint will be Diamonds.
Size: Measurement around the outside edge must be no less than 120" and no more than 180". The piece, therefore, can be any shape as long as it conforms to those measurements.
It must have 3 layers.
A border is optional.
It needs a 4" hanging sleeve.
No rods or poles to be included with the quilt.

(The celebrations for the Jubilee will centre around an extended weekend in 2012 on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th June.)

The Challenge application form is only available through the members' login on this web site.

Have you seen this quilted wall hanging?

8th June 2010

Compass Quilters made and presented it to the Exeter Hospice – on its opening, to be hung in the foyer on semi-permanent loan. When the foyer was redesigned it was taken down and seems to have disappeared without trace. We were told it may have been raffled but there is no evidence of this – or money raised. We would like to borrow it back to display it in the forthcoming exhibition in August.

Our hopes lie in steely-eyed quilters to spot it. Please contact me if you have any information. Laurie McClintock Tel : 01392 873958

We are currently working on more quilts for the hospice in Yaraslova – Russia. We have seven ready for quilting and hope they will be taken over later this year – when the group come over to Exeter.

Laurie McClintock.