Carry on quilting

My groups are still whatsapping and quilting.

Many are making small UFOs which are delightful. Mine tend to be bigger like this Dresden Plate for a raffle for Macmillan coffee morning in September (will it be virtual coffee I wonder?) so I spend hours hand quilting them at the end. My niece obviously spent hours during lockdown, apart from home schooling, studying, cooking and cleaning and goodness knows what else, colouring in this wonderful heart which was printed in the papers for the NHS. I love it.

Well, what a nightmare except for quilters of course. A sad but timely excuse to get our heads down and quilt! We have started up quite a few different WhatsApp, Zoom, and email groups to keep ourselves sane by having chats, and we are lucky being in a village where we can still chat to neighbours over a garden hedge, lots of feet away from each other.
Our monthly patchwork groups are having virtual show and tells and we are setting challenges as we all have enough fabric anyway to last us years if necessary!
Something I have been working on.

 The middle of a lovely whole cloth quilt already marked up bought from a friend’s sale of a deceased patch worker. She raised over £1000 for children’s air ambulance. Well done Sue.

Don’t miss this exhibition

We have just visited the lovely exhibition at Milton Keynes Museum (in the silver building at the back, and free on Tuesdays). Lots of such interesting exhibits, beautifully mounted, particularly the associated exhibits on weaving with willow, silk, cotton, spinning wheels including Gandhi’s little home spinning wheel (where did they get that from, they are really difficult to find!). The textiles were wonderful. Both modern by local contemporary quilters and ancient from places such as India, Vietnam etc. Lovely ladies at hand to chat too.

newsletter for region 7

Come October I shall be taking over as Editor of Bits and Pieces the newsletter for region 7 of the Quilters Guild. If anyone has something they would like to tell the world about, please let me know!

Fobbles

What a lovely name! I discovered this lovely shop near Ravenglass in Cumbria while on holiday. Beverley also does workshops in her barn and the selection of fabrics etc is great. Do visit!

Spalding

we went to  the Spalding exhibition and enjoyed it very much. Some of the quilts we had seen before but some are worth that second look anyway. Like Sandown, it is small enough to enjoy in the day, even with the added attraction of an outlet village just down the road in walking distance plus a lovely watery park to walk in. Purses were rather empty on the way home. But I have discovered a lovely shop called Weird Fish which actually sold dresses that fitted me and I hope didn’t make me too much of a mutton lady dressed as a lamb!

Website

My website is down at the moment as I am going to have a new one made for me, one that I can update myself, but I shall still be known as rosemaryrabbitquilts.
Our groups is looking forward to going up to Spalding to see the exhibition there at the end of May, as we haven’t been before.
One of my teaching groups has made a star quilt for the Macmillan  coffee morning in September.

We are selling tickets and hope to make a nice amount for them.