Some of my followers may be interested in the breakdown of
the finances of last week’s Gresford Show. It was our most successful so
far. And again the figures illustrate
just what an important part food plays in the success of our show!
Figures
for the week as follows:-
Visitors
947
Admission
£2367.50
Food
£2747.30
Plants
£186.45
Tombola
£500
Challenge
£195
Commission
£150
Magazines
£88.35
Donations to be given
£1200
each to the Church, Memorial Hall and Hospice
£700
each to the 4 local charities
£195
from the Challenge to the Breast Cancer Fund
Challenge
1st:
Willow Williams … rectangular bag with wooden handles
2nd:
Jenny Harrison … flower picture
3rd:
Angela Jones … patchwork rabbit
I have been away to visit my mother in
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. This town has been in the glare of the public
spotlight recently as the result of failures in the Health Care system, in
particular at the Furness General Hospital. A few miles away, the town of
Dalton-in-Furness, where I was born and brought up, was also in the news
recently following the death of a female keeper in the lion enclosure. This is
not the way you really want your home town to be immortalised! That said I always
find it comfortable to revisit the familiar sights of my formative years. I
doubt I would want to live there again having been away from the place for
2/3rds of my life, but I really do enjoy ‘visiting’. I used to refer to these
trips up north as ‘going home’, but when my parents sold the house I was born and
brought up in, I always felt like a visitor there. So ‘going home’ for me now is
returning to the place where my husband and I live. And that’s how it should
be.
In this room I also want to make a patchwork
wall quilt and I have chosen a favourite technique that I taught many, many
years ago. I have been reminded of it recently by another friend, Liz, who is
about to teach the technique to her students.
So what do you do with a pile of scrap fabrics?
Reds
DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS
This is a Delectable Mountain quilt
that I made about 20 years ago for one of my daughters. I was a utility quilt,
made to fit the colours in the room, but it has long faded with use.
FABRIC: I am using scraps of reds and
neutrals, the more variety the better, and my starting point for the size of
quilt that I am making is a 5” square.
You can start with any sized square; the
bigger the quilt, the larger the starting square.
METHOD
Press with your hand at the start and
finish of the diagonal so that the fabric does not move whilst it is being
marked.
Stabilise the fabric
2 Place a neutral square, with RS
together, on top of a red square and pin to hold them together.
3 Use a neutral thread to sew a ¼” seam
on both sides of the marked diagonal line.
Sew seams on both sides of the diagonal
4 Iron the squares to settle the
stitches and smooth the fabric across the diagonal.
