An exhibition of the work of quilters will take place next month.

Mannin Quilters started in 1990 with eight members.

Today the group has more than 80 members. They meet twice a week at Ballabeg Methodist Chapel Tuesdays from 7.30pm to 9pm and Wednesday afternoons at St Columba Catholic Church, Port Erin, from 1.30pm to 4pm.

In 2000 to mark the millennium, the group started a charity project, making tiny quilts for the babies in incubators in the special care baby unit at Noble’s Hospital.

The quilts are taken home when the babies are discharged. We average donating 100 quilts a year, so by now they have made more than 1,000.

More recently members have supported a charity cushion-making scheme.

They presented more than 250 cushions, as an extra Christmas gift, to three of the Island Live at Home schemes; Southern Befrienders, Laxey and Lonan and Western in Peel.

Mannin Quilters hold their exhibition at Ballabeg Methodist Chapel from Friday, May 4, daily until Monday, May 7, from 10am to 4.30pm.

Admission is £2 and includes tea or coffee and home made cakes.

There will be a sales table and a raffle for the pictured quilt, which is raising money for Multiple Sclerosis Isle of Man group and Macular Society Isle of Man.