Lovely day!

 Since Hinckley Tangent Group donated some money to Project Linus, we decided to hire a hall and hold a sewing day.  Lutterworth Piecemakers kindly booked Walcote Village Hall for us (they are regular users, so we got it for ‘mates’ rates’) and I wanted it to be available to anyone, so it was a free event!  Julie works at Tesco and she asked if they were prepared to make a donation towards our refreshments cost - and they did!  They funded it completely, which was wonderful of them.  Julie bought all kinds of treats from cans of coke to bananas to keep us going!  Here she is with the Project Linus sign outside. 

Madeline supplied a raffle, which basically paid for the hall, and the prizes were cute little houses.  I know, because I won one! 

Just under twenty sewers came, which was wonderful, considering the temperature was about 28C that day!  We had all the doors open, and managed to catch any breeze going, which meant it was quite pleasant for a working environment.  

Everyone got stuck in to the ready cut kits, and even coped with my sketchy instructions! 

We had quite a few visitors too.  Here are Chris and Lynne who popped in for a look round, a coffee and to pick up kits to take home! 

Unfortunately, although we had lots of finished tops, I didn’t photograph any of them.  I was going to take a photo of them all together, but some people had to leave early, and I didn’t realise I had missed a photo opportunity till it was too late! 

I am always in awe of the creativity of these ladies, and none more than Fiona.  She is a wow at getting orphaned blocks to play nicely together, 6as is evident from this photo!  She put several sets of blocks together for future assembly.  

Many thanks to all the people who came and helped on the day.  We may have to make this a regular fixture on the Linus calendar!