So the run up to Christmas is well and truly on the way - have you started buying presents yet?  We have ladies coming in the shop who are all done and dusted!!  I have made a start but still have a long way to go I think.

Here are some catch up photos from our Patchwork Clubs and classes:

 

This is Sue's Disappearing Nine Patch quilt made from two charm packs.

Here is Bernie modelling her lovely Messenger style bag.

This lovely rainbow quilt is by Louise on the Saturday afternoon club.  I have a close up of her quilting that I must share as well.

And this masterpiece is Bea's Lone Star quilt which looked AMAZING! 

Well done to all our Patchwork ladies, you have all produced some wonderful items this year x

Pudsey's Day

Yes, it's that time of year again.  Pudsey is visiting our Craft Department - all yours for the vast sum of £2.50!  You can give more if you wish though!

Many thanks as always to those lovely ladies who knitted them and also to all of you who have purchased one

An Introduction to Felting Techniques

A full day covering dry needle felting, wet felting to make a flower and learning how to make felt beads.  If you have ever wondered what the differences are between felting terms, or what you can felt and what you can felt into - this is the class for you.  We have an experienced tutor Suzie Guteridge, textile and felting artist.

Come along and join the fun on Saturday 15th November 10am - 3.30pm

Christmas is coming.

Christmas will be here before you know it - so everyone keeps telling me anyway.  So the Christmas fabric is out now:

This is just one of our stands, we have more!

Love this range:

And don't forget we can Fat Quarter them all as well, making them reasonable for all those little projects.

The Christmas Run Begins.

Welcome back all.  And so the run up to Christmas begins....Wool sales have gone up dramatically obviously as you all start to panic about those Christmas presents and cooler nights/days.

Summer went by very quickly, or it did for me anyway - too quickly.  And now the nights have started to draw in and get cooler - much cooler this morning around Salisbury.   

Classes are off and running; Dress making are into their second week already.  We have had four very successful training days on the new Juki overlocker with Pam from Chelmsford.

We have had our first Beginners Patchwork course of the season; seven ladies turned out and hopefully had a good day making blocks and learning new techniques:

Interested in seeing what courses we have to offer?  Why not give us a call or drop us an email and we can send you one of our brochures.

Summer Gathering 2014

We had a little Summer Gathering last week.  We had originally thought we might do a BBQ, but there were concerns regarding the cooking of food and making people ill (something we wanted to avoid!) - and so it was changed to a Summer Gathering and we asked everyone to bring along a plate of food.  There were nearly 25 of us including staff, which was a great turn out.  There was plenty of food and music, and I think a good time was had by all:

We were extremely unfortunate with the weather that night.  All those lovely summer evenings we had been having, and the one night we could have done with one, it decided to rain!  It didn't stop us though as you can see; getting them all to sit still for a photo however proved more difficult!

Many thanks to all who came along x

Festival of Quilts

It's that time of year again.  The Festival of Quilts takes place at the NEC in Birmingham.  It starts on Thursday and runs through until Sunday.  We will be there on stand A46 B36-38 - come along and see us.

We will be sharing the stand with Martha from The New English Quilter and she has a blog entry about it to look at:

http://www.machinequilter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/treasure-hunt.html

Interested at looking at a new machine?  This is the perfect opportunity to try one out and see if you like it.

I think this little lovely is going to be there too!