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Bishop's Cleeve

Patchwork and Quilting

Status:Active, full but can join waiting list
Leader:
When: Monthly on Friday mornings
1st Friday 10am
Venue: Members Home

We are a small friendly group who meet to discuss all things patchwork and quilting related and show what we have made.

Beginners welcome, only basic sewing skills required.

What we have been making

  • In 2025 our challenge for the year was inspired by Album quilts. Each month we made a block with a different design to fit with the theme we had chosen for our own quilt. All the blocks in a quilt may use the same technique or the quilt may contain blocks using a variety of different techniques.

    The themes we chose included nature, garden flowers, the seaside and fields.

  • In 2024 we set ourselves monthly texture-based challenges. We started with a woven block and then moved on to suffolk puffs and cathedral windows before trying pleating, slashing and adding embellishments.