Please note – there is a ‘typo’ on the flyers and tickets:
The postcode for the Memorial hall is SN4 8EN not SN4 8TN
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
Our 2016 Quilters Day at Royal Wootton Bassett
The day was a great success. We all enjoyed listening to our speaker Maryke Phillips and seeing samples of her work.
We raised £770 for Brighter Futures at Great Western Hospital and there were some very happy raffle winners!
Lucky winner of the prize quilt
Another Happy Winner
Our treasurer handing over the cheque to Brighter Futures at GWH
2016 Quilters Day – Royal Wootton Bassett
Our Quilters Day on 19th March 2016
Matching storage bag
The Raffle Prize Quilt
Raffle quilt back
Poppy Down Sewing Day
Thank you to all the ladies who came to our sewing day back in March 2015. It was a very enjoyable day and Sally’s talk and her quilts were fantastic.
We made a grand total of 1000 for the three Charities, Air Ambulance, Head ways and Fun 4 all, which is a great amount!!
These days are hard work to make it a good day for you all, so a very big thank you to the girls who made it happen, whether it was making a cake, donating books and magazines, sewing Aprons and making tombola prizes.
So many thanks to everyone who helped in anyway to make it a lovely day for all to enjoy. Here are a few photos of the cheques being presented to Headways and Fun-4- All at our Monday afternoon meeting.
Headway
Headway
Fun-4-All
Annual Sewing Day – 21st March 2015
We hold an annual Sewing Day to raise money for local charities as well as having fun and eating cake!
Here is our sewing day banner, signed by all of our members