This weekend mission was to produce transport themed quilts for Project Linus
http://www.projectlinusuk.org.uk/.
So after a hard days work we all loaded more fabric than you could think possible into two cars and drove to the south coast of Sussex for a weekend of cutting, eating, piecing, drinking tea, more cutting, eating cake, more piecing, eating, pinning, drinking, (short constitutional walk) and finally some quilting.
A flavour of how much fabric was loaded
Shock Horror! Saturday morning dawns and we all oversleep and miss the early start we had promised to make. Must have been mighty fine chardonnay.
Strangely the healthy breakfast is rejected in favour of a HT special cook up. Clearly we are as easily lead astray as her children were by the tactic of making food more attractive by making faces
On with the work!
Every space is utilised
There was even time for a walk to the beech, some pebble collecting and much admiring of gardens along the way
No wonder we'd all worked up an enormous appetite when CB declared tools down and curry time
Sunday dawned in a more determined fashion than its predecessor and great work was put in before lunchtime
....Never let it be said that quilters are undernourished
Before the late Sunday afternoon Ta-dah! Moments
OK, so some quilting needs finishing, a little binding needs to be popped on some edges but come October 22nd Project Linus will have six quilts to find homes for.
Plans were laid for us to visit the NEC festival of quilts next month http://www.twistedthread.com/, Hever's regional show 17th September 2011 http://www.hevercastle.co.uk/events-in-kent.aspx and there will be future monthly updates from quirky quilters
So here's to us, friendship, and quilting
Same time, same place next year girls?
It sound's like you had a lovely time and it is such a great idea to make a little quilt that will mean a lot. I saw the quilt Helen made and loved it. Well done everyone, I hope you get to have more weekends like this one!
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