Welcome

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We are a friendly patchwork and quilting group, who meet on a Monday afternoon at:

GORSE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE 
Chapel Street, Gorse Hill , Swindon, SN2 8DA

from 1:30pm – 3:30pm, and sometimes all day. We have guest speakers and occasional workshops.

We are a self-help group who enjoy making and creating all kinds of lovely things for ourselves and for charity. In the past, we have made several items, including: hospital bags, Blankets of Love and Linus quilts for needy children and young adults.

Quilters’ Day 2025 – Charities

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Anne Shilston a volunteer from Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance receiving our donation on 19th May from Marilyn our Chairperson and Ros our Treasurer
Douglas Batchelor from the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust who came to Poppydown on 12th May to receive our charity donation being proceeds of the sewing day on 22nd March from Marilyn our Chairperson and Sue our Secretary.

Sewpowerful Bag Workshop Day

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We had a day’s workshop again this year to make Sewpowerful bags.
This is a worldwide project to make bags for girls in Zambia, Africa.
There are no facilities in schools to allow girls who are having their periods to attend therefore they miss a lot of school time.
These bags allow them to take their own sanitary products in the bag .
This is a non profit organisation for more information please visit 
www.sewpowerful.org

Linus Quilts

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Over the years we have donated many quilts to Linus. Since Ellayne Fowler became Linus Co-ordinator we have donated a hundred and sixty one quilts some of which have been shared among:

Spurgeons (who make up packs for newborns); SWA – women’s refuge; Homestart – who work with families; NSPCC Swindon; various schools for their Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (looking after anxious children within schools); Great Western Hospital special care baby unit and various individuals through social services.

A ‘Quilt-as-you-go” group project with blocks by different members assembled into a quilt for Linus.

Some of our ladies with the latest donations.

Poppydown Quilters’ Day 2024

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Once again our Quilters’ Day was a resounding success.

We had a captivating talk from Yvonne McAtamney about her Japanese quilts.

Thanks to all our members who looked after the stalls, tables, raffles and the kitchen and to all who worked in the background, donated and generally supported the day. 

Thanks also to the two traders who drew a lot of interest – we hope your stashes are now a bit bigger than they were.

Congratulations to Jean Stanton who won the prize quilt’

The money raised was shared between our two charities Tiny But Mighty and Swindon Women’s Refuge.

Our speaker Yvonne McAtamney from Village Fabrics and Sewing Street.
Some of the lovely raffle prizes donated by our members
Kath and Jan on the ‘scrap’ table
Maureen and Pauline on the book sale table
Sandra and Sue slaving away in the kitchen
Brenda and Jan with the Raffle Prize quilt
and Jean Stanton who won it!