Dilys The Quilt: BLOG 154

I have had a wonderfully busy week, a busy-ness of the best sort. The Gresford exhibition is the highlight of our year as a craft group, providing the members with an opportunity to display their year of work. For me particularly it provides a much needed dead-line and makes me step up a gear or two, to finish my quilts, boxes and book covers. As a well-oiled team, it took us from 10am to 4pm to put up the exhibition. We all have our own duties and displays to take care of in various parts of the church, and somehow it all comes together in the end. I was responsible for hanging quilts and wall hangings which meant a lot of climbing up and down stepladders and over pews (next day my muscles were proof of the energetic nature of this activity!) If you have been following my Blog, you will have seen the techniques involved and witness the progress of Ella’s Quilt and String of Diamonds. Here they are hanging in the church (with apologies for the quality of some of the photographs).

Ella’s quilt (left)

String of Diamonds

Thank you to all the friends and visitors who showed an interest in my quilts. Many of you follow my blog already … Thanks for being interested … and there may be some new ones coming to visit for the first time …. Welcome on board and call by regularly for quilting news and projects.

My Floral patches (centre) SOLD

A variety of crafts.

The church is a lovely venue for our exhibition. We are surrounded by all the artistry of those past; stone masons, stain glass workers, carpenters, metal workers and embroiderers. I firmly believe that churches need to do more to bring people through the doors to share these wonderful spaces.

Knitwear, Olympic Quilt and stained glass

Coat of many colours, wall hangings

Various displays across the pews

More wall hangings and a first Sampler Quilt

The Challenge this year was ‘Pink’ and here are the anonymous entries. Each entry is labelled with a letter and there is a corresponding pot for money for each of them. The one with the most money is the winner and we will find out the results next Tuesday at the craft meeting, along with the final amount raised during the exhibition. (Hope you noticed the patchwork bra!)

There were several special exhibits within the exhibition but the one that was always buzzing with people was the display of miniatures (mostly 1/12^th scale). Here are some that took my fancy.

Funeral procession and green houses

Holby city

Fabric shop

Thatched cottage (in progress) The thatch was made from tufts taken from a coir mat and tied into bundles.

‘Horologist Within’. This was my favourite!

There are a few sales table items left over and I am showing some of these below. If you are interested in buying anything, email me at dilys.fronks @btinternet.com