Hooray! Made it!

Today, I decided to clear round upstairs (mother-in-law is expected to stay for Christmas!) and ended up reorganising some of the Linus fabric. I have lots of lovely orphans, but they need to be matched up to be useful, so I spent some time sorting blocks, measuring them, and trimming those which were strange sizes to make them easy to use.

Here's the 'Tops and orphan blocks' box with all the blocks in their correct bags. Now they are ready to use at our next sewing afternoon in January. I was interrupted by the doorbell, and I was delighted to see Jackie, who had seen my plea for another quilt to make this year's total up to 300, and had brought one!

It's a beautiful prem quilt with mother and baby rabbit! Of course, it being Jackie, she couldn't just bring one quilt.......

she brought three! Many thanks for that, Jackie, and keep on stitching!

Happy babies

This week I managed to make a delivery of 35 quilts to ADAPT, the charity working with premature babies and their families. Sue Williams came over and took a large pile of quilts away with her. (Actually, 35 isn't as big a pile as you'd think, as lots were the small prem quilts and cot quilts, so not too big!) Sue was delighted, and said they would soon be finding new homes. She was as good as her word, and has sent me these photos of small ones enjoying their quilts!

This little one has chosen the quilt which was made by Caitlin, our youngest Linus quilter, at only 7 years old!

This youngster is delighted to have this cute cot quilt with farm animals on it.

And here is (possibly) a future textile artist, busy examining the quilt's construction!

I was so glad to see these quilts going out and giving hugs, as this year has been another bumper year for Project Linus in Leicestershire. So far, I have received 299 quilts! Is there anyone who has a quilt which can bring the count up to 300? Hoping so!

December sewing afternoon

I wasn't really expecting too many people at this month's sewing afternoon, as the weather here has been horrendous! Not only has it been bitterly cold, but we've also had thick snow. Jackie and I had decided to brave it, as we both live in the town, but we were delighted to see Eileen brave the country roads to join us! Jackie and I sewed, and Eileen ironed, cut, sorted fabric and generally kept us busy!

This month we deiced to sew strips together, as these blocks are easy to make and are so useful. Jackie chose purple and I chose pink, and we decided to have a competition to see who could do the most.

Here is the result - Lynda 13, Jackie 7. Looking at the two piles I can see why I won. I think maybe the pink strips were wider, so making the construction of 8.5" squares quicker! Never mind, it's for a very good cause.

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone connected with Linus (and those who aren't!) a very happy Christmas and a productive new year!