Donations

It's been quiet over the summer, but I have a feeling things will be gearing up once the temperature goes down and the schools go back. I have been away, but managed to squeeze in a visit to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC. What a fabulous show that is! And my day wouldn't have been complete without a visit to the Project Linus stand, to meet Lyn Antill and any other reps who were there. People often bring in quilts, blocks, fabric etc. so I called back as I was leaving, and Lyn gave me a bagful of tops.

Now, I am always very grateful for any donation to Linus, but the tops in this bag divided themselves neatly into 'I can see why you didn't want that!' and 'why have you given that away?'

Here are the tops which will need a little work. This one is double bed sized, so will have to be cut down. Nice and scrappy, but needs borders to bring the colours out.

This one is big too. The lovely stack and whack stars are a bit lost. A bit of resizing here would help too.

This will be fine once the navy border has been halved and sewn onto the other side to balance it. The Japanese fabrics are very attractive.

Now for the ones I would definitely not have given away!

A Tree of Life in reproduction colours - very sophisticated, and only needing layering, quilting and binding!

A folk art vase of flowers - now what's wrong with that? Nothing that I can see! Maybe there should have been more birds, and the maker just ran out of steam! A nice blue border and it'll be absolutely charming!

A cake stand centre and lovely borders. This will make a sweet little cot quilt.

And now for my favourite kind of Linus quilt - a completed one!

This is Caitlin proudly showing her quilt. I think she must be one of the youngest quilters ever to donate a quilt, as she is just seven years old! Well done and thank you, Caitlin, and I'll look forward to more beautiful quilts from you in the future.