7.45pm for an 8pm start

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We hold monthly meetings at 7.45pm (for an 8pm start) on the second Tuesday of the month (except for August).  We have a range of exciting, entertaining and informative speakers on a wide range of textile subjects.
 

• January 2025 meeting only will be held via Zoom

• February to December 2025 (excluding August) actual meetings will take place at:
  
  Reigate Park Church - Park Room
  Park Lane East
  Reigate, Surrey, RH2 8BD.            Click here for map                        
   

Meetings are free to members and visitors are welcome at a fee of £5.  If you are interested in coming along, please contact Heidi Dennis at 
heididennis22@outlook.com

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If you give textile related talks, we would be interested in receiving details from you for consideration when we arrange the programme for future years.  Please email details to Heidi at heididennis22@outlook.com

Aurifilosophy - speaker Jo Avery

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A lifetime of playing with fabric and yarn has culminated in a career as a teacher, entrepreneur and designer. Jo’s natural affinity with colour and detail informs all  her quilts as well as a love of intricate techniques such as needle-turn applique and embroidery.  Straddling both modern and traditional quilting, she enjoys inspiring others through her workshops and retreats. 

For more information about Jo join our Zoom meeting and in the meantime, you can read more on her website: www.stitchgathering.co.uk

Members' evening
 

More details to follow nearer the time.

My Journey in Quilting - Speaker Doreen Plumridge

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Doreen is one of the founder members of Guildford Quilters and has been making quilts for 40 years.  She is a great fan of 'colourwash' quilts and has developed her own technique of bleaching and blending colours for the quilts that she designs herself.  She particularly likes working with Liberty Tana Lawn.

 

Doreen's work has been published in books and many quilts have been sold here and abroad.​

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Indian Treasures - Speaker Wendy Dolan

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Wendy Dolan is a textile artist, tutor and author based in Hove, Sussex.  As a freelance tutor and lecturer, Wendy offers courses, lectures and demonstrations on a wide variety of subjects such as landscape, natural forms and architecture relating to stitched textiles.  Wendy is a tour leader for Aahilya Holidays taking groups on textile tours to India, exploring the crafts and textiles of Gujart, Rajasthan, Himachal, Punjab and Kerala and the talk this evening will relate to India.  

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Wendy has a BEd Hons degree in Art and Textiles and a Diploma in Creative Stitched Textiles.  She is a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a member of the Sussex Guild.

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Wendy will be running a two day workshop of 17 and 18 May, please see our 2025 Workshops page.

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More information can be found on the following websites:
www.wendydolan.co.uk

www.aahilyaholidays.com

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AGM 

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Our Annual General meeting - more details to follow nearer the time.

Felt Stories - speaker Moira Searle​

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Moira came to felt making after her career as an art teacher.  She is a member  of the International Feltmakers and The Society of Designer Craftsmen with whom she has exhibited in galleries both in London and Chichester.  Moira makes handcrafted clothing which is inspired by the sea and coastline and her love of historical clothing.

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For more information see:   Moira Searle - Society of Designer Craftsmen

Project Linus UK - speaker Liz Powderham 

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Project Linus UK is run by a team of Co-ordinators, who organise sewing and fundraising events across the UK, as well as liaising and distributing quilts and blankets to their local hospitals, children's hospices, women's refuges, foster carers, special schools, bereavement services and many other places where support is given to children 'in need of a hug'.  Area Co-ordinators will also visit groups such as craft groups, the Women's Institute, U3A, local quilting groups and other organisations to spread the word about Project Linus UK.

For more information, see their website:

www.projectlinusuk.org.uk

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Garden Party 

For members only - more details to follow nearer the time.

Members' Evening

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More details to follow nearer the time.

Small Quilts, Quick, Easy & Fun - speaker Julia Gahagan

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Julia loves to work small scale and has developed a quick and easy technique that allows her to create miniature quilts that are quick and easy to make.  She has won several awards at national textile shows and has designed patterns for quilt magazines.  She enjoys working as a freelance speaker and tutor, travelling around the country, sharing her enthusiasm for little quilts.  

Julia designs and sells her own patterns and kits on Etsy and shares hints and tips for making little quilts on her Facebook page Julia's Mini Quilts.

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For more information about Julia and her work, go to:

Facebook:  Julia's Mini Quilts | Facebook

Etsy:  JuliaGahagan - Etsy UK

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Sustainability in Textiles - speaker Teresinha Roberts

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Teresinha trained initially as a biologist and later studied for a City & Guilds in Embroidery.  After learning about dyeing, she took up an allotment and started to grow woad, weld, madder and other plants that produce natural dyes.  Recently she started to grow fibre flax and she also rears several types of silkworms.

 

Teresinha has websites on natural dyes, fibres, spinning and weaving, handmade paper and greetings cards.  She sells her products all over the world, and her websites attract 25,000 visitors a week.  She has a studio at the prestigious Custard Factory, which you are welcome to visit by appointment.

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She is an active member of three Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Guilds.  She comes from a family with a long line of textile tradition and both her grandfathers were bespoke tailors.  Her ancestors were weavers and lived near Erfurt in Thuringia, the heart of the woad industry in Germany, before emigrating from Germany to Brazil in the 1850s.

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Before turning to textiles, Teresinha wrote a field guide on southern Brazilian birds and worked on a World Wide Fund for Nature project in the Amazon forest.

 

For more information, Teresinha's website is:

www.teresinharoberts.co.uk

Christmas Party

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More details to follow