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Workshops are held in our classrooom above the shop or in a local church hall.
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|  | Charity Events |  | Charity Events Over the years Threads and Patches has raised money amd made quilts for various charities. Look out for our latest venture! |
| Threads and Patches Exhibition of Work held 27th & 28th Oct 2007 A feast for the eyes! Our exhibition was great fun and a real treat to see the work by students and tutors from Threads and Patches. We also raised £400 for Macmillan Cancer Relief from raffle and refreshment sales.
Thank you to everyone who contributed work to the exhibition, those who entered our competitions, all the volunteers who helped put the thing together and then take it all down again at the end, plus those who did demonstrations, serevd teas and coffees, manned the raffle stand plus numerous other tasks that need to be doen to make such an eveny successful. Thank you all so much, I am so thrilled that we have such a wonderful quilting community here.
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| Charity Auction Our free auction was held on July 14th. Money spent in the shop between March and June was be matched by our FREE Threads and patches pounds. Our customers spent them at our Free Auction on goods from the shop and donated items. We raised money for Macmillan by charging entrance fees, teas and coffees a raffle and voluntary donations.
In total we raised £775 for Macmillan Cancer Relief and the Oncology Unit at Milton Keynes Hospital.
a big thank you to everyone who came along and made it such an enjoyable event. |
| Make a Quilt Block for Our quilt Block Challenge A massive thank you to all those who contributed blocks to our quilt block challenge. We had a total of 69 entries enough for 5 winners of 12 blocks and the final person out the hat will get 9 blocks!
The winners are
Brenda Smith of Tingewick
Sandra King of Bedford
Mrs J Harris of Cheltenham
Margaret Pratt of Milton Keynes
Iris Jenkins of Dunstable
and Sue Liebow of Bristol (9 blocks)
We have been raising money for Macmillan in various ways including asking for donations for carrier bags. The total in the pot so far is £150.53
So thank you every one.
The prizes will be posted out to the recipients next Monday (22nd Jan) as I haven't had a chance to photograph all the blocks yet.
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| Stitch for Refuge 2nd & 3rd June 2006 On Fri 2nd and Sat 3rd June we made 28 quilts for the children at the Women's refuge in Milton Keynes.
Often families have fled their homes leaving everything but the clothes they stand in. We made quilts for the children that they can keep and that have a label with their name on.
We stitched from 1pm -12.15 pm on the Friday and 7.30 am - 6pm on the Saturday.
many thanks to the following for their time and donations. Rowena Allsopp, Chris Cole, Margy Johnson, Fiona Patrick, Margaret Pratt, Pam Caffrey, Dawn Pobjoy, Geraldine Mundy, Glynis Matthews, Betty Halliday, Pat Congrieve, Val, Helen Pym, Evelyn Joy, Audrey Holmes, Jessie Griffiths, Elaine Douglas, Sally White (and Martin Westley for making the tea!).
I would like to say a special thank you to Scott and Andrew at Groves and Banks who have donated a roll of wadding today! (26/5/06) |
| Threads and Patches Exhibition 22nd October 2005 This took place on Saturday 22nd October at The Methodist Church Hall, Queensway, Bletchley.
Tutors and students displayed their work completed as part of classes, courses and workshops held at Threads and Patches.
The exhibition and raffle raised almost £420 for Macmillan Cancer Relief.
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| Extreme Quilting Weekend October 2004 This was held in October 2004, armies of volunteer stitchers came and worked all day and all night starting on the fri morning and finishing on the Sun afternoon. 50 quilts were donated to the Linus project. The stitchers were sponsored by frineds and family and a stunning £2500 was raised for the Breast Cancer nurses at Milton Keynes hgospital |
| Quilt Raffle Christmas 2003 Over £1000 was raised by our quilt raffle , the money went to the new oncology unit at Milton Keynes Hospital. |
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Free Postage on all orders over £25.00. Orders under £25.00 all cost £3.50 postage
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