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.

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!

2023 Poppydown Quilters Day

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A very successful day enjoyed by all with an interesting talk by our speaker Lesley Cole about her Quilting Journey focussing on her trip teaching in Mongolia.

We had a display of the Group’s ‘Pack of Cards’ challenge:

The happy winner of the Quilt and Cushions raffle was Margaret Friend
We had a raffle table with items made by Poppydown members.
Thanks to our Traders – Village Fabrics and Little Sew n Sew for donating prizes to our raffle.
We had a Book Sale table

In the afternoon we all enjoyed delicious cakes made by our group members.

All in all a very successful day!!

QUILT DAY 2022 – Royal Wootton Bassett – January Update (Rescheduled from 2020)

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(26 March 2022)

Hello Ticketholders

We are looking at the upcoming Quilt Day in the light of ongoing Covid.
We appreciate that there are still worries about gatherings in an enclosed space and are waiting to see what Government regulations and the Centre requirements are.

Because of that we are asking all ticket holders to contact us with their name, ticket Number, current contact details and if they still intend to attend.

Please email our treasurer on: jansens@btinternet.com on phone on 07941588283.

Thanks