Regional Day, London

Our speaker in the morning, Helen Deighan (she wrote "dyeing in plastic bags") kept use amused and imparted a lot of information about dyeing. Here she is showing where to store all that fabric -- she came up with this idea before Ikea did!

Jane and Philip Steward show off the next raffle quilt, which will be launched at the Knitting and Stitching show in October -

Cathy Corbishley Michel told us about sunprinting (cyanotypes), using her new data projector. It's so good when the technology just gets on with the job and lets the speaker concentrate on the talk.

The afternoon had demonstrations of all sorts - and a table with free patterns for Little Gems. The Little Gem kits were selling briskly, too; profits from those will be added to the takings from the tombola.And here's the display of some of the Little Gems made by members of Region 1 and brought along to the day. You can see one of Cathy's cyanotypes on the right -- she also left 15 more - what a great contribution! Quite a few members are making more than just one or two - those at the top left are from Carole Thompson, and the white ones are some of Linda Seward's contributions. Some are already on the Little Gems website, and others will be added soon.