A Village Quilter

Well - I did a few things last week that I forgot to share with you all. And even after this posting there are a few more to come. The photo above are of some oat and raisin cookies I baked - they managed to last for both a visit from the in-laws, a night with the quilting group at my house quilting and a husband with a hearty appetite. Here are some of the purchases I made at Malvern. These packs were just £5, 8 pieces about 24cm square. I bought these for one of my fellow quilters who's after a variety of black and white fabrics. And here are my fabrics I bought - the ones above are for my stash. The bottom ones are for my pink quilt - circles and squares again. And finally here's my experiment that didn't work. Can you even see the organza next to the printed A4 sheet? The idea was to see if photo transfer would work on organza and would show up - but as you can see it doesn't work. I'm back to screen printing in gold - which I know will work. Finally - 'hi...

Well it really is November already - I can't believe it. I'll have to crack on if I want to make some of my Christmas pressies. Today I went to the Malvern Autumn Show as I 'd won tickets. It was a really nice day. The weather was warm and dry, the show wasn't too crowded and it wasn't too busy either. Very civilized. There were a reasonable number of traders - enough to let me spend some money (but not too much). Well here are some photos of the quilts. Most were really collections from either individuals or groups of artists. And here are some of the photos: Lots of circles But not only circles And here are some American style quilts - an example of one and then the whole row of them in different colours. And a few more... Hope you like them. It was a great day out.

No this isn't a scam. I entered a competition in Patchwork and Quilting magazine and I've won a pair of tickets for the Autumn Quilt Festival at Malvern . It's a new show - so I've no idea what it'll be like. Are any of you thinking of going? I'd love to know. I haven't decided which day I'm going yet - so you could influence my decision - or perhaps the weather will. Drawing class tomorrow - lets see what occurs on the paper this week. I've also started to hand quilt my Buzz saw quilt. As I'm using a pale thread on pale fabrics I can only really quilt in very good light as otherwise I can't see where I've got to. Saturday is a days quilting in the village hall - not too sure how many of us will go, but it's bound to be a good day.