First meeting in our new venue

 We were sad to have to leave our old venue of Crescent School, but we are delighted to have found another venue in Dunchurch Village Hall.  It’s quite easy to find on the main Rugby Road through Dunchurch and has great parking.  Phil was very friendly and helpful to us, and made us very welcome.   The main room was perfect and the whole place was clean, modern and well set up.  

We had a great turnout of about 70 people, but although it looks busy in this photo, we only had six chairs per table, and provided plenty of ventilation.  

Here is a different view of the hall, showing how spacious it was. 

Our speaker was Karen from Quilter’s Den in Warwick, and she proved to be an interesting and enjoyable speaker, with lots of lovely quilts to show.  

Here she is with her ‘pop up shop’ which was perfect for those of us who had been recently starved of retail therapy.  She had a good selection of fabrics and I managed to go home with a few beautiful designs. 

Unfortunately, Caroline was indisposed, but luckily Julie was able to step in and run the raffle.  The raffle, cake and magasines money all goes to our nominated charity, so. Is quite important! 

The next meeting will be on the 5th February, which will be out 21st birthday party.  We will have three different workshops and some fun games, as well as cake!  You will need to bring a sewing kit and a small wadding off cut, something like 6” x 8”.  I’m sure most people have that.  See you in 2022. 

So good to be back!

 It was so good to be back with our Rocheberie friends on Saturday!  We had been concerned about the parking, but in the event there was loads of room, both in the car park and on the road.  The venue was an ideal size for our first meeting (39 people came) and the kitchen and toilets were lovely! 

We limited the chairs to just six per table, and some people wore masks but because of the large room, and having the doors open, everyone felt safe.  

There was room for the Linus rummage box plus two other sales tables, and everyone enjoyed the familiar friendly atmosphere which always pertains at a Rocheberie meeting. 

We just had one demo, hexagon hedgehogs, which proved to be quite popular.  The show and tell was of the usual excellent standard, and so was the cake!  

The next meeting will be at Dunchurch Village Hall, on November 13th, and our speaker will be Karen McIlwraith from Quilters’Den in Warwick.  She will bring her pop up shop, so lots of chance for retail therapy!  

Meetings 2022

February 5th 21st birthday party

March 12th Michelle Moody

May 14th Carolyn Gibbs

July 9th Ami James

September 10th Mark Francis

November 12th Kathleen Laurel Sage 

We’re Back!

 It’s hard to believe that our last Rocheberie meeting was in January 2020, which is nineteen months ago!  Nobody thought the coronavirus pandemic would last so long.  Of, course, it’s not over yet, but we are starting to get back to normal activities.  Most people were aware that Crescent School were having difficulties accommodating us.  We understand that their priorities are education, rather than hiring out to quilting groups, but as we have been there for over 20 years, we were hoping to work something out.  We started to look for another venue which could accommodate between 70 and 90 people, had a kitchen and car parking and was in Rugby.  This proved more difficult than you might think, as lots of venues have weddings and birthday parties, sports clubs, dancing lessons or other regular activities on Saturdays, have in house catering, and the ones in the town have no decent car parking facilities.  However, the committee have decided to move our meetings to Dunchurch Village Hall, which should suit us well.  The only downside is that they are already booked for our September 18th meeting, so we will hold a one off social meeting at St Peter and St Johns Church on Clifton Road in Rugby.  We will open at 9.45 as usual and have demos, raffle, cake, sales tables and show and tell etc as usual, but there will be no speaker.  Here is a photo of the church, and we hope to see you there!