Page 83 - Patchwork & Quilting - UK (February 2020)

FEATURE // introducing

Show and Tell

The list of quilts the group has made over the years is
long, some of the notable ones the group are proud
of include: A quilt made for Cheltenham Museum in
1991 depicting scenes around Cheltenham; a Celtic
sampler triptych made for Breast Cancer In Women,
which hangs at a local cancer care centre; a quilt made
in 2011 for Help for Heroes and one for the London
Olympics 2012 which went to one of the participating
countries along with many, many more .....

Shipton Quilters' first exhibition was held in 1988
in The Reading Room, Shipton Oliffe, and initially
exhibitions were held every two years. Over the years
the number of beautiful quilts produced has grown
and we now exhibit at the lovely setting of Rendcomb
College near Cirencester showing over one hundred
quilts. We have perfected our exhibition routine to an
exhibition every three years. A year to make, a year to
plan and show and a year to rest! Our next exhibition
will be our fourteenth, thirty-two years on, and will be
held on 4 – 5 April at Rendcomb College.

A charity quilt is made by the group for each
exhibition and raffled to raise money for our chosen

charities. Over the years our charity quilts have been ‘Litchfield’, Sue Watters, Best Traditional Quilt, West of England Show.
exhibited and received several prizes (1987, 3rd in Adult
Group Quilt, National Patchwork Championships, 1991 Our group continues to flourish and produce beautiful works.
1st Group Quilt, Quilts UK, 2016 3rd prize Charity Quilt, Come to our exhibition at Rendcomb College in April to see
Quilts UK). some wonderful quilts produced by our group. We look
forward to greeting quilting friends old and new.
We have many very talented and prolific members, with some
individual group members also making prize winning quilts for
national shows, most recently Sue Watters at this year's West CONTACT
of England Show. Her quilt won Best Traditional Quilt. Another For further information about Shipton Quilters email:
member (we think she quilts in her sleep!), is Vanessa Reynolds shiptonquilterssecretary@outlook.com
who recently held a one woman show of over one hundred
and thirty of her own quilts to raise monies for Maggie's and Full details of their upcoming exhibition will be on the
The Butterfly Centre, Cheltenham. Exhibition pages in the April issue.

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