WELCOME

Thank you for visiting Material Pleasures and taking the time to find out more about us.
The business is owned and managed by Barbara Crompton, a quilter with a lifetime’s experience of both quilting and training. I have now combined these skills to create Material Pleasures where I can bring my expertise to selecting exciting fabrics from well-known brands, useful accessories and a range of original, personally-designed kits and patterns that quilters will love - all at affordable prices.

Material Pleasures trades globally online 24/7, at Quilters’ Guild events and craft and stitching events. We can provide a trade stand at your group meetings, exhibitions or other stitching-related events in the Manchester/Merseyside/Cheshire areas and beyond. Please use the contact form to enquire.

Internet and group customers can benefit from joining our loyalty scheme (see details on the left) and newsletter subscribers receive regular special offers.
Payment is by Paypal or cheque – see the information page for further details.

Beginners Workshops

Material Pleasures currently offers Beginners Workshops at Frodsham Community Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire and Murdishaw Community Centre, Runcorn, Cheshire.

We have 2 very good venues at Eccleston Park Golf Club in St.Helens, Merseyside and at St. Matthews Church in Stretford which we are holding. These courses will start as soon as we receive enough bookings, so do please register your interest if either of these venues is of interest to you.

For workshops in other areas, please register your interest and your location and we will let you know as soon as we have something that you can get to. All the workshops are aimed at complete beginners and can be booked as a whole course or you can pick and choose individual sessions. Details of the current courses are below:

Murdishaw Community Centre, Barnfield Ave. Murdishaw, Runcorn, WA7 6EP – Monday evenings 6.45pm – 9.15pm from April 27th 2009. Places now available. This is an ongoing, informal series of workshops and meetings that can be joined at any time. Just ring me to confirm place availability.

Frodsham Community Centre , Fluin Lane, Frodsham, WA6 7QN – the intermediate group meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. Please use the contact form for further dates.

Frodsham Community Centre , Fluin Lane, Frodsham, WA6 7QN Beginners
Session Name	Time	Saturday	Price


Shadow Applique	10.30–3.30	7 Nov	£15
Celtic Applique	10.30–3.30	28 Nov	£15
Troubleshoot session	10.30–3.30	12 Dec
Stained Glass Patchwork	10.30–3.30	9 Jan	£15
Sashing, Borders and Assembling a Quilt	10.30–3.30	23 Jan	£15
How to Quilt and Bind	10.30–3.30	6 Feb	£15

Frodsham Community Centre , Fluin Lane, Frodsham, WA6 7QN Beginners
Session Name	Time	Tuesday	Price
English patchwork over papers	6.45 – 9.15	Oct 13	£7.50
American Block Piecing and Rotary Cutting	6.45 – 9.15	Oct 27	£7.50
American Block Piecing and Rotary Cutting	6.45 – 9.15	Nov 10	£7.50
Strip Piecing – Log Cabin, Courthouse Steps	6.45 – 9.15	Nov 24	£7.50
Strip Piecing – Pineapple	6.45 – 9.15	Dec 8	£7.50
Hand Applique	6.45 – 9.15	Jan 5	£7.50
Machine Applique	6.45 – 9.15	Feb 2	£7.50
Foundation Piecing	6.45 – 9.15	Feb 16	£7.50
Foundation Piecing	6.45 – 9.15	Mar 2	£7.50
Cathedral Window Patchwork	6.45 – 9.15	Mar 30	£7.50
Shadow Applique	6.45 – 9.15	Apl 13	£7.50
Celtic Applique	6.45 – 9.15	Apl 27	£7.50
Celtic Applique	6.45 – 9.15	May 11	£7.50
Stained Glass Patchwork	6.45 – 9.15	May 25	£7.50
Stained Glass Patchwork		Jun 8	£7.50
Sashing, Borders and Assembling a Quilt	6.45 – 9.15	Jun 22	£7.50
Sashing, Borders and Assembling a Quilt	6.45 – 9.15	July 6	£7.50
How to Quilt and Bind	6.45 – 9.15	July 20	£7.50

If you would like to register your interest in workshops in any of the above locations or if you would like us to consider running workshops in your area, please use the contact form. REMEMBER: If you don’t tell us you are interested we won’t know!

If you would like to book a place at a session or receive more information about the workshops, please use the contact form.

If you are a member of a group that would like just one or two of the workshops at your regular venue, please contact us to arrange. Special rates available for groups.

I hope that you enjoy your quilting as much as I always have. I also welcome any feedback or comments you may wish to pass on to me.
My policies are:
     that I request payment within 10 days
      the buyer pays postage costs
      100% satisfaction guaranteed
Further information can be found on the Information page

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Aim

My aim is to provide top quality items, help, advice and excellent service to all my customers.

Disclaimer

We do our best to make sure that information contained on our website is reliable. However due to typographical errors, misprint, third party data, and human error, Material Pleasures reserves the right to correct any errors and/or inaccuracies contained within this website at any given time without prior notification.
If we need to amend an item for which you have placed an order, you will be consulted and given the options of either proceeding with the order or cancelling.