First Blog Post by M Weaver

As with most groups our face to face meetings ended in March 2020 and since then we have been meeting via Zoom and instead of our once a month meeting we have met every two weeks. This not only helped give support to each other but also we hoped would keep us motivated with our work. Whether the later has worked I'm not one hundred percent sure, I think keeping motivated has been a struggle for us all and I know I fluctuate between being very productive and then go for weeks without really doing anything useful at all. During the first lockdown I was baking bread and cakes and had grand ideas of knitting, stitching and using my vast stash of fabrics and threads! There were plans for getting well ahead with my work for The Material Girls upcoming exhibition at The Maeldune Gallery in August 2021, I have ideas but not produced anything as yet, although I have made four baby quilts and another one still to do. At yesterday’s MG meeting we were asked what we will be putting into the exhibition so now I'm committed to actually producing at least four pieces, now I will get the ideas out of my head and actually get started.....

​Two of the Baby Quilts.