Last Wednesday three of our group visited The Fat Quarter shop. Also known from the Hochanda TV program Sixpenny Memories patchwork and sewing crafts. We were made welcome and given coffee while browsing the lovely fabrics and displays. We bought fabric for future works of our art so came [...]
On Saturday 9th September the Red Hatters outing to Harlow Carr took place. Despite the heavy showers we did the tour of the garden with one of the RHS volunteers We had a lovely day and as usual we caused a stir with the group looking magnificent in their [...]
It has been a while since the patchwork group posted our news from the group. Unfortunately it has not been the usual whirl of activities this year due to members health issues and family commitments. I am pleased to say most of us managed to get to our annual [...]
After a coffee in the café we were able to produce a good selection of photographs around the park then finished off with another visit to the café for lunch. Altogether a very pleasant day out. Brian
Evelyn and I literally wore two hats to publicise our U3A's Red Hatters group. We were at Beamish Museum last Thursday for the German visitors trip to the museum. The display was met with interest and we explained to the interested public what we were about. One lady from [...]
Evelyn and I represented the patchwork group on Thursday for the German visitors trip to Beamish Museum. We were able to display the groups quilts and other pieces of work in the Methodist Chapel. It was an enjoyable day talking to members of the public sadly none from Germany! [...]
For our March outing we visited the Roker sea front, the weather was cloudy but reasonably bright. This area has been revamped in the last couple of years with new seating and planted areas. The planted beds have been augmented with many tree trunks, presumably these were washed up [...]
We started the photography group in 2012 and have photographic outing on the first Monday of each month followed by a review meeting on the third Monday. At the review meeting we look at the pictures taken on the outing and easy going comments are made on the good [...]
On the 3rd of February 2017 the Red Hatters went on their first outing of the year under the leadership of our new group leader Evelyn Cole. The group met under the clock at Newcastle Central station, not wearing Red Carnations but our Red Hats. The group was met [...]
Just got back from a hectic iPad group session. We have 6 new people who have begun to grapple with their tablets. For the experienced members who could not attend today I have found a new app to play with called Pic Collage. It's great for creating posters / [...]