Sit & Sew, Saturday 16 August

There was a full house for our meeting, and lots of chat, fun and laughter.  Oh yes, there was some sewing going on too.

Sheila did a superb demonstration on reverse applique, and afterwards quite a few members had a go at it.  I am ashamed to admit that I did not get any photos of Sheila's examples (I specially loved her book covers) and nor did I take photos of some great work done afterwards by some of the group.  I am sorry about that, and if anyone has any photos and would like to share them, please just leave a comment below this post, and I'll get back to you.

We also had our usual show and tell session, so grab yourself a coffee/tea/wine/whatever and sit back and enjoy the show.
 

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Sit and Sew 22 March

This coming Saturday is our next Sit and Sew Day and it's time to book your place! You must email me if you want to join us as we have been getting very busy lately and places are limited. Please don't just turn up on the day as you may be disappointed. Here are the important details:

Date: Saturday 22 March
Time: 10am to 4 pm (arrive from 9.40 onwards)
Place: Deepdale Community Centre, Boston Spa, LS23 6EH
Cost: Around £3 depending on number of people attending
Tea and coffee provided


This time our project is a lovely Sewing Caddy (as in the photo) which Sandra and Linda introduced to us a couple of months ago. Click on this link for the free pattern by Gina Bean Quilts. You will need to click on the link in the post to open the instructions and then click on 'File' then 'Print PDF' or 'Download' to save it to your computer first before printing it. You must print your own copy to bring to the SASD as it is lots of pages so we will not be printing these for you! You may want to cut out the pieces before the day so you can get on quickly with the sewing.

 I'll bring some fabulous stiffening 'Decovil Light' (£8 per m) and thin Fusible Fleece (£6 per m) in case you want to use them to make your bag nice and firm, plus the usual fabrics, threads and notions for those who want to browse the portable shop with absolutely no pressure to buy.

Of course you don't have to make the caddy, you could work on any project of your choice. Don't forget to bring your lunch and something for show and tell as well as all your sewing stuff!

To get you in the mood here are some photos from last month's Show-n-Tell:

Show and Tell

Our January sit and sew day was an inspiring start to the New Year! We spent most of the day just sewing and chatting and having a nosey at what everyone else was sewing - perfect! At lunchtime we had our usual show and tell with some fabulous quilts. Helen's quilt above is based on the Giant Vintage Star tutorial by Jeni Baker and makes great use of fat quarters in a quick to make quilt.

Here's another of Helen's

Beautiful hexagons from a layer cake and the free 'Hexagon Park' pattern on Moda Bake Shop -just stunning!

Jane's quilt top uses simple blocks - squares with a triangle pieced to two corners, in a lovely gentle colour palette.

Sue brought along a great scrappy colour block quilt  above and her take on the 'Low Volume' quilt many of us made last year, shown below

Liz had also finished her Low Volume quilt and the off centre spiral quilting looked great!

She was working on this stunning star quilt and trying to decide how to quilt the stars. We all liked the backing fabric and will be visiting the store where she bought it soon!

I loved this applique design made by Sheila but she said she wasn't keen on the technique used - raw edge applique!

Quiltsue of 'Pick Four' fame brought this stunner from a Kim Bracket design. I think I spot more that 4 fabrics in this one Sue!!

June is one of our newer members and sews quilts for Project Linus. Here's a fun idea for children made from scraps of novelty prints:  

And a brilliant frog quilt:

Margaret who also joined us recently had pieced this scrappy quilt. 

And although not a modern quilt we all admired the embellishments on this crazy patchwork:

Last but not least another beautiful scrap quilt but I can't remember whose it is - sorry! If it's yours please add a comment below!

We also spent a bit of time talking about and looking at Pinterest for those not familiar with it, and discussed how we can use Facebook, this blog and new (to some of us!) Instagram etc. Please 'like' our Facebook page, look out for our tag #yorkshiremodernquilters on Instagram and visit our Pinterest boards. Check back here for some guest blog posts from our members in the near future!

Hazel

Show and Tell

Earlier this month we had another lovely sit and sew day with 16 of us spending the day sewing and chatting, sharing projects and enjoying a delicious 'Fuddle'! Our show and tell was as spectacular as ever with stunning quilts and works in progress. Janet and Jackie treated us to an explanation and demo of crumb quilting with lots of examples to admire. The photo above is of Janet's finished Trip Around the World started on a previous SASD and made entirely of 2" squares of red, white and blue fabrics.

Here are some of the crumb and scrappy blocks on display:

Davina also brought her Trip Around the World to show:

And here are more fantastic quilts from our show and tell:

Sewing machine cover

Pumpkin Table Runner

Medallion Quilt from a pattern in 'Love Patchwork and Quilting'

Whacky Houses

I'm afraid I didn't get photos of all the quilts so apologies to everyone I missed. You can see more on our Facebook page where Liz is keeping us updated with news, photos and events. If you have photos to share you could add them to our Flickr page.

Our next SASD will be on January 18th, 2014 at Deepdale Community Centre Bosoton Spa. I'll be posting more details in the New Year. So until then

Merry Christmas!

Hazel