Please note – there is a ‘typo’ on the flyers and tickets:
The postcode for the Memorial hall is SN4 8EN not SN4 8TN
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Date for your new Diary – Quilters’ Day 2019
Poppydown Quilters will be hosting our 2019 Quilters’ Day on
23rd March 2019
at the
Royal Wootton Bassett Memorial Hall.
Our speaker will be Sara Price
Dealers: Little British Fabric Shop and Mark Pickles Sewing Studio (Bath)
Charities we will be supporting: CPRS (UK) and Hearing Dogs for the Deaf
Quilters’ Day Charities
Well the Quilters’ Day went well and the proceeds were shared between the Willows Counselling Service and the MNDA (North Wilts Branch). Ladies from both organisations came to one of our meetings to collect the cheques: Claire Derry for Willows and Barbara Crook from MDNA.
We made it into the Adver
An article about our fundraising:
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14498075.Sewing_group_donates___770_to_Brighter_Futures_Appeal/
Heart-shaped Cushions for Breast Cancer Patients.
Some of our members have made heart shaped cushions for breast cancer patients in the Great Western Hospital.
On Monday 7th November these were collected by Chloe Thomas from Brighter Futures Fundraising Group.
Some of the cushions made by our members
Keep an eye out for the next Link Magazine.
GWR 175th Anniversary – at the Steam Museum in Swindon
On the 1st of November, as part of the 175th Anniversary celebrations, members of our Poppydown Quilters’ Group met with Caroline Black, Project Co-ordinator and Ian Surtees, Steam’s Income Generation Manager to hand over the Anniversary Banner made by ladies from our Group:
Sue, Irene, Barbara and Sandra with Ian and Caroline
The members who made the banner!
Posing in the Exhibition