It was a jam packed meeting this week with a great turn out of members.

Ruth Burke was our guest speaker who kept us enthralled with the story of how, from a background in knitting she began quilting after completing a free online class. As she discovered this new hobby she wrote a blog about her experiences and started to participate in swaps and quilting bees. She quickly progressed from adapting patterns to writing her own patterns which featured in magazines in Australia. Ruth is now regarded as a highly accomplished quilter who is in great demand across the country as a teacher an demonstrator. Ruth brought an extensive collection of quilts to accompany her talk which gave a wonderful sense of her style and technique.

Whilst we were being entertained the engineers from Waterford Sewing Centre completed our annual sewing machine services. And Moya from Patchwork Plus hosted her ever popular shop. Following the meeting a small group of members stayed to have an afternoon of sewing, having time to chat and work on different projects including some hand quilting and quilt as you go blocks.

The show and tell as always was a delight. Ann Maloney showed her Jazz quilt made for the Cork Year of Culture some time ago. Christine’s showed her orphan block quilt. Ann Pasley showed a lovely quilt with a towelling backing Idea for a day at the beach along with bag. Heidi showed her piece which was entered in the European quilt Challenge entitled One World. Clare showed her Christmas Tree jelly roll quilt and an ombre star quilt top. Sheila had made a scrappy quilt using the paper backing method. Maraid has made another quilted jacket and Ber, Mary O’Connor, Eilís and Briedy were amongst others who also showed.

Our next meeting will be on 13th December. We will again have our hand made Christmas decoration swap so get making a decoration to swap and receive a hand made decoration in return. We will be joined by Sewezi Tables who will demonstrate the versatile sewing table. There will also be a fun festive quiz and mince pies and a warm welcome will be waiting for you.