A quiet time

I think people have been taking advantage of what warm weather we've had to be busy in their gardens, rather than ensconced in their sewing rooms lately, as very few quilts have come my way! However, Piecemakers can always be relied on to be generous.June belongs to a knitting group, and gave me four lovely blankets which a member of the group had knitted for Linus.Ruth had made this sunny quilt from bits and bobs. Really cheery!
Some people may recognise this design as being the mystery quilt which members of Rocheberie Quilters made last year. The quilt was designed in quarters, and Chris said if anyone didn't want to finish the quilt, she would make up any lone quarters into a charity quilt. Since the pattern was designed to use scraps, the four parts look as if they were always meant to be together. Well done, Chris. What a great job!
Jane made this gorgeous quilt using a technique which would lend itself well to leaders and enders. You need lots of 3.5" squares and 3.5" x 2" rectangles. The method is simplicity itself: you simply join them into pairs and then join the pairs up as you like. I can see other design possibilities here. (I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'f'. Sorry.)

But recently, something quite exciting has happened. I was invited by Shakira, the Textiles teacher of a local secondary school to talk to her Y9 group about quilts, as part of a module on recyling. The group were so enthusiastic (and well-behaved!) that I offered to come back and lead a practical session in making blocks for Linus. They all enjoyed the session, sewing strips onto squares of Vilene, and I put the blocks together for them.


Here is the resultant quilt. Very sweet. I made a piano keys border for it, and used some little orphan blocks for the corners. Here is the group of pupils proudly showing off their handiwork!