15/05/2009 by Anna.

Dont forget the Quilts and Roses exhibition on 20th & 21st June at Squires Garden centre, Badshot Lea.

Farnham Quilters are having a Midsummer Marathon on the 8th June from 10.00am to 9.00pm, thats a monday making a Pineapple blossom Quilt, so pop in and find out how is done, for more info phone Doris Dove 01252 617090 or look at www.farnhamquilers.org.uk

 Earier that week on the 5th June there will be an open day at 26 Sole Farm Road, Bookham, KT23 3DJ 1.30- 4.30. Cost £1.00. Quilts on Show. Embellisher to try and Chat and advice. Contact Jan Godding 01372 453801 or email jan.surrey@virgin.netso she doesnt run out of cake.

its a busy week on the 6th-7th June Quilts in the Village, Log Cabin Quilter hold there 10th exhibition at the WI hall, Green lane, Hartly Wintey, Hampshire, RG27 8DL 10-5 sat, 10-4 sun Admission £2.00

 The National Quilt Championships are on the 19th-21st June. Sandown exhibition center, Sanddown Park, Esher, Surrey. 10-5 Admission £5.50.

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15/05/2009 by Anna.

Thank you Farnham Quilters for having Loosethreads to talk and show our quilts, we couldn’t have timed it better as you were celebrating your birthday with wine and cake and made us fell very welcome.

What a lovely evening we hope to have inspired some of you to start a project, form a small group or even hold an exhibition.

There were some ladeis who wished to contact me, you can email Anna@loosethreads.co.uk

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01/05/2009 by Anna.

It’s good to be out and about after my operation, there’s so much going on in the patch-world, but first yet me tell you that at the region day last weekend I won the competition! How fab is that, and today my cheque from the Sue Belton award came in the post, so I am a happy bunny.But let me tell you about some of the events coming up in May:-

• Quilt Exhibition as part of the farnham arts festival, May 15th and 16th 10am-5pm at St Andrews Chuch, upper Church Lane, Farnham, Gu9 7pw. free admission.
• Pinewood Quilters are having a ploughmans lunch on the 21 May 12 noon to 2.30 at the WI Hut Hartley Wintney RG27 8DL tickets £5.00 Bring and Buy and Show and tell. profits to step by step and a womens Refuge. To reserve a place phone Lyn 01252 624705 or Carole 01252 842859. Wish I could make it but I have my C&G.
• Next something that I can make, a Garden and Patchwork open day 2.00-5.00 on Sunday 31 May. 57 Ramsbury Drive, Earley. In aid of Douglas House Hospice for young people. £5.00 per head which will include tea/coffee and freash scones and cakes. You can email if you would like to go philip.markham@btinternet.com 
• Just seen another event for May at Henley on thames RG9 2AQ 25-31 May “Quadriga on Thames” an exhibition of stitched textiles inspired by the river Thames, at the old Fire Station Gallery, sun 1-4 other days 10-4 Admission free. Contact Delia Salter d.e.salter@reading.ac.uk

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24/04/2009 by Erica.

Barbara Weeks came to Hexagon Quilters last week and gave a talk on colouring fabric, followed by a workshop on her mosaic technique the next day.  I nearly didn’t go to the workshop as it was school holidays and I was not sure that it would be for me anyway.  Well sometimes when you try something that you are ambivalent about it does just click, and this is one technique that I will definitely be developing in my own way.  Barbara is an excellent teacher giving wise advice on choice of image and teechnique to suit each individual student.  I have finished the piece that I started that day - almost the only sewing I have done this week (picture will be on the site soon).  And I am brimming over with new ideas.  Usual story though - so many ideas, so little time.

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16/04/2009 by Anna.

6-7 June. Quilts in the village, WI Hall, Green Lane, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, RG27 8DL, Log Cabin Quilters 10th Exhibition Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Entrance £2.00.  Trader Natures treads, Demos, sales, refreshments, raffle.

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16/04/2009 by Anna.

Guildford Quilters are holding an exhibition at Holy Trinity School, Addison Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3QF. open 10am-4pm. An Exhibition of members work, refreshments available, free parking (access to car park from Cline Road via Cheaham Road. Admission £1.00. 29th-31st May

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09/04/2009 by Erica.

I am just back from a few days with my Mum who lives in Wales.  It is always a lovely break for me and my boys and when I look back I find that a lot of my quilts have a welsh connection of some kind.  One of my City & Guilds pieces was inspired by a windy day at Aberaeron, another wallhanging used stone walls from a welsh castle as a starting point.  At other times I have simply been able to plan a quilt in my mind or solve a textile problem, I think because I am away from home and the everyday cares of running a household.  Not that I don’t help out at my Mum’s - I wouldn’t get away with that! - and I still have the children to look after.  But the lack of responsibilities definitely helps my creativity and I am back with several ideas and keen to get started on new projects.  Is this me or is it a female problem?  I don’t really know.

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29/03/2009 by Kevin.

I was just sent these photos from the Quilters Guild AGM showing Anna’s work being displayed.  Thanks to Mary for the photos

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28/03/2009 by Erica.

It has just been announced at the Quilters Guild AGM that Anna is joint winner of the 2009 Sue Belton Award. This is a fantastic achievement although no surprise to those of us who know her and her wonderful standard of work. I am absolutely thrilled for her and for Loose Threads. We shall all have to go next year’s AGM to see her work on display.

The timing is good too as Anna had her op yesterday and is now recovering at the Royal Marsden - where she has been sewing a wallhanging to be hung at the hospital. Keving reports that she is doing well, I am sure she will feel even better when she finds out about this!

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28/03/2009 by Erica.

I haven’t blogged in a week or two and it is because I always talk about sewing and I haven’t done a awful lot - though I certainly have wanted to! For me sewing is both a challenge - creating a new design - and the best way I know of relaxing when it comes to the actual stitching. The trouble is, the second aspect relies on the first, which in turn relies on a certain amount of uninterrupted time and I haven’t had much of this. I am now very aware that term ends next Friday, so I must make some time this week to get a new project underway.

And I have another problem. I have got a quilt that is half quilted but I realised last week that I had not picked it up in the evening for nearly a fortnight. I thought about this and realised that I was not enjoying the quilting method and pattern that I had chosen and then I came up with a much better one! So what do I do now? I have quilted nearly half of the twenty-five blocks, and I do love the rayon thread that I am using - do I unpick it and start again? Or do I finish the perfectly adequate existing pattern? There is a Loose Threads meeting next week and this is a warning to all my friends there - you will be asked your opinion.

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