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.