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 Good news. My old Rosemary Rabbit Quilts website is being remade by my niece’s partner, well versed in website design. All very exciting, but I now have the job of trawling through all my quilts and putting them into proper folders for him. Watch this space for that. I hope it will be up and running in a few weeks’ time. 

Meantime and very overdue is this blog. Last May Icknield Quilters held their Pearl Anniversary exhibition in Letchworth. Very well attended and lovely to be back in a local show again after all these months. We made some profit for two local charities, Feed Up Warm Up, for local homeless people, and the charity for bereaved children. Both splendid charities.

Here are some lovely quilts from our show!

Still here!

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My temperature quilt for 2021. I made 2 x 1 inch pieces indicating type of weather and max temperature for each day of each month. Great fun to do!

 I realise I haven’t posted anything since 2020. Covid brain set in many months ago obviously but so far no one in our family has actually had it. We are quadruple jabbed and thankful for it. 

What has happened over the two years is a lot of sewing, wonderful Zoom talks from people hundreds or thousands miles away, whom we could never have listened to face to face because of expense. The Quilters Guild were great in promoting this, and our local groups got together to pay for these more prominent and wonderful teachers. We listened to Paula Nadelstern, Alicia Merritt and others in awe of their delightful works of art.

Meantime, back on the ranch, I did a temperature quilt for 2021, and finished off some big and small UFOs. I also managed to go on some retreats after the initial lockdown, just fitted in neatly between following ones! I am due to go to Suffolk later in July to work for four days on more UFOs and new designs, and meet up with my favourite teacher, Lynne Edwards, for lunch too. I have been watching her videos regularly, which she started up during Covid as she couldn’t use her village hall. They have been inspirational as usual. Contact her if you want to join in!

Also in May this year our local group, Icknield quilters, held their pearl anniversary exhibition for our 30th year of meeting. It was a great day and much admired for the work in show. We managed to get Three Counties Radio to come and interview our Chair, Sue Rainbow, while on their Saturday Treasure Hunt. We were their first port of call so managed a big puff of advertising! Sadly no Anneka Rice appeared!

Here are some items finished:

Happy Sewing!