Region 8 - Groups

Barnraisers Quilting Club

A mixed ability group of sewers who enjoy all aspects of patchwork and quilting. Members are free to work on their own projects or join in with individual/group set projects - some of which are presented to charities or even displayed at The Festival of Quilts.
We also benefit from having a part-time sewing teacher who can answer any related questions the Members may have

Meet Details

The group meets every Friday morning 09.30am - 12.30pm

Essex and Suffolk Quilters

Founded in 1989 Essex & Suffolk Quilters meet monthly in Colchester to enjoy a varied programme of speakers from all walks of the patchwork, quilting and textile world with the occasional ‘sit and sew’ evenings. Throughout the year we also hold sewing days (mostly on a Saturday) where we focus on our community projects including Quilts for Care Leavers and Project Linus.

You can find us on Facebook where we share our most recent activities.

We welcome new members of all abilities, please do contact us via email for more details.

Meet Details

Second Thursday, monthly. 7.30pm
Hythe Community Centre
1 Ventura Drive
Colchester
Essex
CO1 2 FG

Essex Modern Quilt Group

Modern quilting in Region 8.

A group (max 20) of like-minded people from across Essex and Suffolk whose focus is modern patchwork and quilting.

The group does not have a website.

Meet Details

Monthly, 2nd Thursday, 10am to 3pm.
Bring everything you need for the meeting, including a packed lunch.
Tea/coffee/biscuits provided.
Subs approx £60 annually, paid in 6-month instalments.
Street parking available.
Vacancies rise from time to time; please enquire via email if you are interested in joining the group.

Ferrers Quilters

We are small group in the village of South Woodham Ferrers established in 1998.
Meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Thursday mornings from 9.30 to 12.30am in the Main Hall 9.30 to 4 pm on a 5th Thursday. The current membership is £30

Meet Details

Members work on their own projects or help with Charity Quilts. Quilts have been donated to various groups such as Project Linus, British Legion, Care Leavers, Foster homes and local care homes,
Basically, if someone or a group need a quilt then the members start sewing.

Keene Quilters

Keene Quilters is an established quilting group with 60 members that has been meeting for over 30 years.
We host weekly meetings and are involved in several community projects. We always welcome visitors so please do come along and join us.

Meet Details

Keene Quilters is a warm and friendly quilting group that meets every Monday between 1pm - 4pm.
On the 2nd and 4th Monday we host a variety of talks and workshops, both in person and via ZOOM. Visitors are always welcome to these talks and full details can can be found on the Region 8 Events page or by joining our mailing list.
The intervening Mondays are called our Sit & Stitch meetings where you can bring along a project and sit and stitch with friends. There is always someone on hand to help or offer advice and we supply the tea, coffee and biscuits.
You can find us on Instagram and Facebook where we share a little of what we get up to.
If you would like more information or a copy of our current programme please contact us via email.

Mersea Island Stitchers

Group of 24 members

Meet Details

Generally the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 1-4 pm
2-3 Extra Thursdays per year for external speaker meetings

Pier Patchers

Pier Patchers Quilting Group meets every other month either in the morning or evening. We have a variety of events, from speakers and workshops to sit and sew sessions.

Meet Details

January 10am - 12pm
March 10am - 12pm
May 7:30pm - 9:30pm
July 7:30pm - 9:30pm
September 7:30pm - 9:30pm
November 10am - 12pm

We also have sew days at Ashingdon Hall in Ashingdon, and our workshops are also held here.

Point To Point Patchwork and Quilting

We have 24 members and meet weekly on Monday mornings from 10-12.30 at the Galleywood Heritage Centre. We cater for all levels of ability and teach one another skills to perfect our work.

Meet Details

Monday mornings 10-12.30 weekly

Roding Quilters

Roding Quilters: a patchwork and quilting group who meet in Chigwell, Essex - and draws members from East London and West Essex, as well as having a small number of members who live further away and join us for zoom meetings (in the winter months). The group has been running for over twenty years - and has run several popular quilt exhibitions and attracts an interesting set of speakers each year; plus has a thriving Facebook group.

Meet Details

Meeting face to face on the second Tuesday of the month (March to October except August) 7.30pm at St. Mary'Zoom on the second Tuesday of the month during the winter months (November to February excpet December).

Seven 17 Contemporary Textiles Group

A small group of like-minded quilters with an interest in contemporary textiles generally, working in and developing their knowledge and skills as contemporary quilters.

New members welcome. Please email for more information.

The group does not have a website.

Meet Details

1st Thursday of each month from 10.30 to 3pm.
Bring a packed lunch. Tea/coffee/biscuits provided.
Street parking available.

New members welcome. Please email for more information.

Warley and Childerditch Quilters

Formed in January 2013, the group welcomes all quilters regardless of experience and, as a result, the group has a wide range of skills and knowledge within its membership. The group programme is a mix of social events and activities. The group arranges around 6 workshops each year in addition to the monthly programme.

Vacancies do arise occasionally so if your're interested in joining, please get in touch via email.

Meet Details

The group meets twice monthly on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday 7:30-10:00pm at Warley & Childerditch Village Hall.

Membership is £40 annually for as many Wednesday meetings as you choose to attend.
Workshops, trips etc are all costed and charged separately to the membership fees.

More details can be found on the group's website.

Charity Sewing Group

A new charity sewing group has been created.
Members can work on their own charity projects; such Quilts for Care Leavers and Project Linus. Patterns will be available for driver bags, mastectomy cushions etc. We have plenty of ideas and fabric scraps too.

Meet Details

We meet at Messing Village Hall, The Street, Colchester CO5 9TN on the 4th Thursday of the month from 10am till 3pm, starting 23rd May 2024.

There is ample on street parking available.

Members need to pay £30 to cover the hall rental for 6 months. If you are interested but cannot commit to every month, please contact Linda at [email protected]

Bring your own lunch.

Tea, coffee and biscuits available.

Colne Quilters Patchwork and Quilting Group

We are a group of ladies that have been meeting for almost 25 years. We are a patchwork group that explore all types of sewing and have been raising money for MacMillan for almost 20 years. There is a waiting list to join the group.

Meet Details

Every Friday 9.15am - 4pm

Cotton Scatterers

Meet Details

1.30 - 4.30pm on Mondays (except Bank Holidays)

Daughters of the Dump Quilters

Meet Details

Mondays 6.30 - 10.00 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month
Tuesdays 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month 12.30 to 4.00 pm bring your lunch.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/186257858125084/

Grand Daughters of the Dump Quilters

Meet Details

Mondays 6.30 - 10.00 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month
Tuesdays 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month 12.30 to 4.00 pm bring your lunch.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/186257858125084/

Havering Quilters

Meet Details

7 pm - 9.30 pm, 2nd & 4th Mondays of the month excluding August.

Loose Threads

Meet Details

Loose Threads meet on the 2nd Sunday of every month at Margaretting Village Hall between 9.30am - 6pm

Purleigh Quilters

Meet Details

Last Tuesday in the month (except for December), 9.30am-12.30am.

Quay Quilters

Meet Details

The group will start running again from January 2022 providing the government has not put restrictions in place.

First Monday of the month from 10.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m.

Quercus Quilts (formerly Acorn Patchwork and Quilting Group)

Quercus Quilts (formerly Acorn Patchwork and Quilting) Group is a monthly group for quilters to meet and sew together. Members are invited to come with their projects. We are planning to run workshops in the future.

Meet Details

We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.
10am - 3pm

New members are most welcome

Radwinter Quilters

Meet Details

Thursday (fortnightly) 10.00am to 4.00pm
£5 per session.

Stanway Sewing Bee

Meet Details

Every 1st and 3rd Friday 7.30 - 9.30pm.
For anybody who loves handicrafts - sewing, knitting, crocheting, baking, cross-stitching, patchwork & quilting etc - to come and join or just chat with like-minded people.
£2.00 each per meeting to cover the hire of the hall and tea/coffee and cake.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1539804642799868/about/

The Community Dump Quilters

Meet Details

Mondays 6.30 - 10.00 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month
Tuesdays 1st, 3rd & 5th in the month 12.30 to 4.00 pm bring your lunch.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/186257858125084/

Diss Quilting Group

We aim to encourage Group members (both 'beginners' and those with more experience) to share their skills and experience both internally within the Group and with the help of outside Tutors.

Meet Details

We meet on the second Thursday of each month between 10am and 3pm. Bring your own lunch - tea, coffee and biccies provided.
Parking, access and help if needed.
Friendly Group of people, always willing to share tips and techniques and willing to learn from others.

Barton Mills Quilting Group

Self Help Patchwork Group meeting once a month on the second Saturday each month from 10.00 to 16.00. We currently have vacancies for membership. Please contact us if you wish to come for a visit

Meet Details

Second Saturday of the month 10.00 - 16.00

Busy Bees Stitchers

Busy Bees Stitchers meet to foster greater friendship between keen patchworkers and quilters, to encourage those who wish to gain knowledge of the craft and to share experience and knowledge with each other.

Meet Details

We meet every second Monday of the month from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm.

Corncockle Quilters

Local group in Felixstowe / Ipswich area.
We meet twice monthly to sew and chat.

Meet Details

We meet:
First Tuesday of the month
Third Thursday of the month
Trimley Memorial Hall , High Road in Trimley St. Martin
10a.m. to 3p.m.
Tea and Coffee provided
Annual Membership £15 Full day fee £4

Cotton Club Quilters

Cotton Cub held their first meeting in 1993 to promote the love and creativity of Patchwork and Quilting through inspiration by local and international speakers and demonstrators.

Once a month, on the 3rd Wednesday evening, we have a social evening at Saint Michael and All Angels Church Hall, Martlesham Heath, usually with a talk on a wide range of subjects but they are always textile related. Visitors are very welcome to attend our meetings for £5, payable on the door.

We also hold workshop days in Bredfield or Charsfield Village Halls where like-minded quilters, sewers, and knitters can meet up for a chat, seek advice on their projects and work together in convivial surroundings.

Meet Details

Workshop days are held every week in Bredfield or Charsfield Village Halls
from 10.00am to 16.00pm.
Bredfield days are held on 2nd and 4th Fridays in the month.
Charsfield days are on Tuesdays in the alternate weeks.
See website for more details

Fibrefusion

Fibrefusion was set up in 2000 by Pauline Verrinder as a Contemporary Textile art group. The group continues today meeting once a month in Fornham St Martin near Bury St Edmunds. We use a range of materials and techniques with the focus on stitched textiles. Members come from a wide area including Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. Each year a title is chosen by the group as a focus for our work. We develop our own design ideas, responding to the theme. Group challenges are also undertaken and our final pieces are showcased at an exhibition each year. The group works in a supportive fashion, discussing work and suggesting ideas.

Meet Details

The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month at Fornham St Martin Village Hall near Bury St Edmunds, between 10.00 am and 3.00/4.00 pm. Members work on a range of ideas to develop final pieces related to our chosen theme. We also discuss plans and ideas for the group and produce items for sale at our exhibition.

Mardle Quilters

We are a friendly group consisting of members with different skill levels from beginner to advanced.

Meet Details

We meet on the last Friday of the month except December.
Our meetings are a variety of workshops by both internal and external tutors, group projects, bring your own work days along with show and tell sessions.
Our members are always happy to share knowledge and expertise to help inspire and enable other members.

Out of The Fold

Out of the Fold is a group of twelve textile artists based in East Anglia. We create stitched textile art for exhibition and sale.

Meet Details

Out of the Fold is a closed group with new members accepted only by application and interview.

Spotlight Textiles

9 members followed Advanced Creative Stitch 2 year course at the premises of the Suffolk East WI ,
Then joined together in 2020 to exhibit in local galleries, Textiles Fairs and Regional exhibitions.

Meet Details

Meeting once a month on 3rd Wednesday from 10 till 15.00. Working individually, discussion and planning, workshop explore,

Textile Connections and Sew What

A combined group, 10 in total of Textile artists and stitchers who meet monthly and hold occasional exhibitions

Meet Details

We meet the First and fourth Monday of the month 1000-1500hrs

Threads

Threads members are friendly and informal group of textile enthusiasts who enjoy working in all types of thread, yarn and textiles.

All levels, from beginners to experienced, are very welcome.

We have monthly evening meetings (apart from August) in person, or on-line, and occasional day-time get togethers around East Suffolk.

Meet Details

In person meetings are held at Rushmere Village Hall, Humber Doucy Lane, Ipswich IP4 3PD on the second Wednesday in March, April, May, June, July, September, October, November and December.

Start time is 7.30 p.m. with doors open from 7.00 p.m.

Our programme is developed in collaboration with our members so evolves over time. Recent meetings have included exploration of Bayeux stitch, make and take projects, Manx hand quilting.

In January and February we hold our evening meeting on-line and may invite an external speaker and showcase our members' work.

Waveney Stitch and Textiles

Waveney Stitch and Textiles is a group that meets monthly for talks, stitching and workshops and is led by a nominated committee.
Our aim is to bring like-minded people together and encourage the art and heritage of embroidery, needlework and related textile arts.

Meet Details

Third Wednesday of each month
10.00am - 12.00am
Quaker Hall
Beccles
NR34 9AB

Speakers, stitching, workshops

Cockfield Stitchers

Meet Details

1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 10.00 am to 3.00 pm.
This is not a teaching group.

Cornard Quilters

Meet Details

1st & 3rd Mondays, 7.30 - 9.30 pm

Deben Quilting Circle

Meet Details

First Tuesday in the month - but not in August.

Heritage Quilters

We are a small friendly group who meet socially to knit, stitch, crochet and quilt

Meet Details

Every Wednesday
9 till 12.30pm

Majyk Scraps

Meet Details

Majyk Scraps meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month

Patricia's Patchers

Meet Details

Every Thursday, 10 am to 3.30 pm.

The Suffolk Stitchers

The Suffolk Stitchers welcomes both new and experienced stitchers.
We aim to promote the practice and study of patchwork, quilting and textile arts in Suffolk.

Meet Details

We meet every 3rd Thursday of the month at 7PM for a talk starting at 7:30PM.
Guest welcome £8.
(No meetings in August and December)
We also organise workshops with our guest speakers.

Wenhaston Patchwork and Quilting

Wenhaston Patchwork and Quilting are a social Sewing group that meet in the village of Wenhaston, Halesworth, Suffolk on the 3rd Monday of the each month.

Meet Details

Wenhaston Village Hall

3rd Monday of the month

Patchwork and Quilting Group

Social Sit and Sew

£10 per day 10am - 4pm refreshments included (bring your own lunch)

Bring your own project or work on Linus Quilts

Find us on Facebook - Wenhaston Patchwork and Quilting (link below)