Sunday 4 October 2015

BLOG 268


BLOG 268

 We have all had a wonderful week of warm sunny weather, unusually for October, and we personally have had a busy week on the roads. Last Sunday, we stayed near Abergavenny for the night and then went onto a funeral on Monday morning in Griffithstown. It was for a favourite auntie on my husband’s side, Auntie Dorothy. It had been a while since we had been at her 90th birthday party and she had suffered mixed health over the following years until the final stitch was sewn in her life’s quilt. I don’t particularly enjoy funerals and attend as one does to remember the deceased and to support the family mourners. What I do enjoy is the get-together afterwards; the general lightness of spirit, the catching-up and reminiscing, the tales of the river bank and so on. It was good to talk!

On Wednesday, 5 cousins on my side of the family came from Anglesey for lunch. The cooking is no problem as I don’t attempt to try anything too exotic and I have always enjoyed having people round my kitchen table. Again there was lots of catching-up and reminiscing, tales of the river bank and so on ….. And it wasn’t a funeral!  It was good to talk!

On Thursday, we journeyed to Abersoch to stay overnight with friends who had rented a house there for the week. This is such a spectacular place, with harbour, bays, cliffs and coastal walks. The weather was great again and the tides were the highest and lowest ever seen. We filled the 2 days with leisurely meals and walks and endless chat. It was good to talk!

Saturday saw me at The Quilters’ Guild Regional Day and I think I talked my way through most of that too! This event is held twice a year in Frodsham and excellent speakers are invited to entertain and inform us about their work. There is often a workshop on the Sunday as an added bonus. I took 2 of my scrap quilts for ‘show and tell’ because they were total contrasts. The first, Lady of the Lake, is a 2-coloured scrap quilt. The fabrics came from my stash, the blocks were set on point and the top was completed before it was put onto the wadding and backing to be long-arm machine quilted.

 
                                              Lady of the Lake

 
The other quilt, Dilys’s Multi-coloured Dream Quilt is made from colourful off-cuts; the blocks were also set on point but it was a quilt-as-you-go method where each block was quilted before the quilt was assembled.

                                            Multi-coloured scrap quilt
 

And here’s what I have decided to do with all the thread flowers from the abandoned quilt. I love long thin wall hangings because they are easy to hang beside a door or in an alcove. It needs a bit of extra work but when I have stopped talking, this I will do!

                    Floral strip

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