Quick trip to Glenfield

 I have had several larger quilts donated recently, and thought these would be most suitable for teenagers.  I searched online and found that there is a in-patient provision for 13-18 year olds with mental health difficulties on the Glenfield Hospital site.  It’s called The Beacon.  I contacted them, and the lovely Jessica said they would love some quilts for their young people.  Fortunately for them they only have about half a dozen patients at the moment, so we headed off to Glenfield to deliver them. 

Here we are with one of the quilts.  It was lovely to meet Jessica, and also lovely to have no queue for the car park.  Amazing! 

Busy afternoon

 Since the last couple of times we’ve been to the LRI in the afternoon we have had a short wait in the car park queue, we thought we’d cracked it.  Alas, no.  Today we went up in the afternoon and spent 40 minutes in the queue!  Never mind, Paula and I had a lovely time putting the world to rights! 

We took 50 quilts to Ward 27 and Chandni managed to gather plenty of people willing to have their photos taken. 

Everyone was grateful and appreciative, and it took us less than 40 minutes to get home! 

Visit to Leicestershire Quilters

 The first quilt group I belonged to was Leicestershire Quilters, who meet monthly in Leicester.  We thoroughly enjoyed their meetings, although it was sometimes a bit of a scramble to get to Leicester for 7pm after work.  I can’t explain why we stopped going, but maybe it was after Piecemakers and Rocheberie started up, with a much shorter journey.  But I was delighted to be invited to their meeting to talk about Project Linus. 

I started by showing the rosette I got for winning the Silver Thimble competition in 2003!  It was a sew a row quilt, called ‘Does my pumpkin look big in this?’ and is giving cuddles at the moment. I had a big pile of quilts to show, as well as giving information about Linus. Everyone likes seeing quilts, and the LQ members were no exception! 

Here is one of the quilts, before I passed it round for more examination.   

 

Here is a rainbow one.  Great use of scraps.  

The group kindly gave me a donation, 9 quilts as well as some fabric and UFOs.  It was lovely to see some old friends and make new ones.