Skeleton Quilt and Giraffes

The fabric for this super, wacky, quilt was bought by Josie when we visited  Quilters Trading Post (see last post) and at our next meeting she had the top made! Her grandson will love it, I'm sure!

Fabulous co-ordinating fabrics for the borders around the offset panel.

Lorna is making an animal quilt and keeps arriving at meetings with sets of fantastic animal blocks.

These striking giraffes are the latest arrivals.....

Still more to "Show & Tell" so keep popping in.

Interested in joining us?

Group Membership

Due to a couple of our members having to leave us through health reasons, we are now able to offer their places in the group.

 If anyone can manage to get to Liverpool for two Wednesdays a month and would like to share quilting skills, fun and friendship, in a pleasant spacious environment, please leave a comment with contact info (which will not be published) and we will get back to you with full details. We are a mixed level of skills, styles, and interests and beginners are welcome but, please note that,  whilst we have occasional workshops, we do not have regular formal teaching sessions. As you can see on this blog, we also make smaller items such as bags, hangings, seasonal decorations and, each month we set a block challenge. 

As well as our quilting sessions we organise days out to shows and places of interest.

Quilters Trading Post Visit

 We had a group trip to Quilters Trading Post, in the Cheshire countryside, but the place is so wonderful that it warrants a return visit so, here are some pictures to give a taste of what it offers.

Immediately on entry there are inspiring sample quilts to see.

 The spacious rooms display a great variety of quality fabrics from the main brands, plus stands of trimmings, notions and all the items quilters just need.

I love the old chapel windows as can be seen above the stands of threads.

 The Christmas fabrics are on sale all year round in this corner.

The stands of batiks lead through to the large classroom.

so much inspiration and the main quilt on this wall was a class project.

This lovely appliqué is a sample from one of the forthcoming classes.

At the other end of the building this corridor, filled with a good selection of extra wide backing fabrics, leads through to the long-arm machines which provide a professional quilting service which some of our members have used for their quilts.

This star quilt shows how a top can be enhanced on the machines.

The building was once a chapel, then a schoolhouse, before it became this haven for quilters.

Pam, Emma and all the staff are so friendly, informative and helpful and it is well worth travelling to pay them a visit. 

Dagfields Craft & Antique Centre is only a few minutes away 

and also nearby is Bridgemere Garden Centre.

Click here for Quilters Trading Post details.

Finishing this post with a blast of Spring. These beauties started off in the supermarket looking like three slim packs of asparagus but soon turned into this lovely display. Well worth a couple of pounds!

Quilt for Breast Cancer & Handstitching

Each month we set a "Block of the Month" for the group to make and one of the members selects a block design, and the colours to be used, then demonstrates how to make it. 

This month it was Pat Mc's turn and she has shown us how to paper piece this house block. Once all the blocks are in, she has decided to make a very special quilt to support a Breast Cancer Charity. 

We were each given pieces of special fabric printed with poignant words, (as can be seen in this close up) to make all the doors and windows suitably pink.

Irene, one of our new members who comes to join us from Widnes, is working away hand quilting these pretty blocks which will make a super quilt. 

Great design and fabrics too. 

A huge welcome to Irene, who fitted into the group so well as soon as she arrived and we are so pleased she intends to stay!

Marj is so patiently working on these lovely, traditional, hand stitched blocks. They will make a wonderful, all white, heirloom quilt. 

Keep popping in as we have lots more to "Show & Tell" from this last group meeting.

Interested in joining us?

Group Membership

Due to a couple of our members having to leave us through health reasons, we are now able to offer their places in the group.

 If anyone can manage to get to Liverpool for two Wednesdays a month and would like to share quilting skills, fun and friendship, in a pleasant spacious environment, please leave a comment with contact info (which will not be published) and we will get back to you with full details. We are a mixed level of skills, styles, and interests and beginners are welcome but, please note that,  whilst we have occasional workshops, we do not have regular formal teaching sessions. As you can see on this blog, we also make smaller items such as bags, hangings, seasonal decorations and, each month we set a block challenge. 

As well as our quilting sessions we organise days out to shows and places of interest.

Golden Wedding Quilt & Bags

The group enjoyed another session today and so many items had been made, started or finished by our talented members. 

There'll be several posts over the next few days showcasing all that's going on.

First here's a Golden Wedding Quilt that Cilla is making for a member of her family for this very special occasion. 

It is a stunning, king size quilt that was only started just after Christmas and, considering the motifs have been appliquéd by hand, it's well on the way to completion for the special day in a couple of weeks.  

Today it was sandwiched, pinned and basted, ready for binding.

Everyone loved the attractive, rustic, colour scheme that Cilla chose and planned so well.

We have started a raffle, for a bit of fun at each meeting, to help our group funds, and Cilla was lucky to win the gorgeous Rowan fabric below as the prize for very first one. One day, no doubt, we'll see this made into something wonderful in a post here! 

Mo showed us this fabulous holdall with a name tag to co-ordinate with the inside fabric. Beautifully made with lots of detail.

Today Mo was working on a finely detailed, embroidered bag in various quality tweed fabrics. A work of art and we are all looking forward to seeing the finished result.

Jo was sent a gift of charm squares by a friend in Cornwall and made this cot sized quilt.

Pop back soon for more Show & Tell pictures.

Group Membership

Due to a couple of our members having to leave us through health reasons, we are now able to offer their places in the group.

 If anyone can manage to get to Liverpool for two Wednesdays a month and would like to share quilting skills, fun and friendship, in a pleasant spacious environment, please leave a comment with contact info (which will not be published) and we will get back to you with full details. We are a mixed level of skills, styles, and interests and beginners are welcome but, please note that,  whilst we have occasional workshops, we do not have regular formal teaching sessions. As you can see on this blog, we also make smaller items such as bags, hangings, seasonal decorations and, each month we set a block challenge. As well as our quilting sessions we organise days out to shows and places of interest.

Quilts Show & Tell

Each meeting, after we've enjoyed a chat, a cuppa, and discussed the necessaries, we "Show & Tell" the work we've completed. It is an inspiring part of our meetings which sometimes is a little daunting when we see the quality pieces produced by our members, but it is also inspiring and there is always so much encouragement if anyone wants to do any of the techniques shown.

Due to a couple of our members having to leave us through health reasons, we are now able to offer their places in the group.

 If anyone can manage to get to Liverpool for two Wednesdays a month and would like to share quilting skills, fun and friendship, in a pleasant spacious environment, please leave a comment with contact info and we'll get back to you with details. We are a mixed level of skills, styles and interests and beginners are welcome but, please note that,  whilst we have occasional workshops, we do not have regular formal teaching sessions. We also make smaller items such as bags, hangings, seasonal decorations, and as well as our quilting sessions we organise days out to shows and places of interest. 

More results from our members.

Sue finished this full sized Japanese style quilt and all of the top was hand stitched. The colour palette of Japanese fabrics works beautifully on the lighter background and the printed border finishes it off perfectly.

 Detail of the circles showing the fabric designs.

Next, Lorna is planning her latest hand stitched Hexagon quilt with the central blue area representing a garden surrounded by borders to represent paths. The panels of hexagons, (many of which were made by group members as one of our "Block of the Month" projects), are, of course the flower beds.

It will be quite a keepsake when it all comes together.

Pat chose an unusual but very effective colour palette for her quilt (below), which whilst it is quite modern, it also has a look of the traditional.

Close up of the the detail of Pat's lovely work also shows the swirls of the professional quilting.

A perfect choice of fabric for the backing.

Quilt Cornerstone 1st Post

Quilt Cornerstone 

We are a lively bunch of enthusiastic quilters who meet twice a month in a village of Liverpool and we hope that we can encourage and inspire people to start patchwork and quilting and record all our creative endeavours.

For the first post of our new blog, here are some photos of a typical meeting showing the variety of crafting that goes on amongst our members, who travel far and wide to share our mutual passion of quilting. 

As a group we also attend shows and exhibitions and have special days out to interesting places, always with lunch and lots of laughter and chat.

Brenda comes via public transport from near to Southport and, 

some time ago, she made this cute panel for a little member of her family and, as often happens, other members were inspired to have a go.

 Brenda shared the pattern with Josephine who wanted to learn appliqué and as you can see, she did so well for her first attempt by making her hanging. 
Well bunnies do multiply! Great results!

 Pat B was hand stitching some appliqué, beautifully. I wonder what it will be?

 Sue finished her block of the month, (the blue Dresden Plate) then continued to prepare the Cathedral Window base pieces for her next hand stitched quilt, which she will use as a travel project.

 Cilla worked on neatly hand stitched appliqué panels. Can't wait to see her finished quilt.

Chris travels from Warrington and here today she is hand quilting a pretty flower fairy panel quilt for one of her little grandchildren.

Jo bought some Kaffe Fassett fabric in John Lewis's sale (at half price and it's still on offer) and is making a couple of bright octagonal cushions.

We have such a variety of our handiwork to show with quilts big and small, hangings, cushions, bags etc., so please pop back for another visit to see how our new blog progresses and it would be so nice if you left a comment too.