Now that Meredithe is overseeing my progress on Mrs Billings, I have been very busy. However, I haven't done any sewing ........ instead I have been doing an awful lot of cutting out! This was the state of Mrs B at the last report. The centre and the hexie flower border
and all of the hexie pyramids for the final border are either sewn or cut out ready to sew
I have still to cut out the background fabrics for these borders, but I have cut all the patterned fabrics
I shall have to knuckle down and get a lot of sewing done before next month's report, or Meredithe, who has won awards with her Mrs Billings, might be cross with me! Of course I have been very busy with the Linus quilts, and have finished the sheepie one
on Saturday I made the two quilt tops using the leftover pictures. These are the two centre panels. As you can see, one has dark blue fabric and the other lighter blue fabric
I added an outer border to bring them up to a reasonable size
on Sunday I layered the first one, putting a lovely thick spotty fleece on the back. I also cut the piece needed for the second one, and have enough left over to do two smaller quilts
it didn't take long to quilt
with a nice big meander in the main section
and a line to suggest a spaceship looping round the planets in the borders!
the last job of the day was to layer the second quilt
this morning I quilted the second quilt
I used a big loopy design in the main part
and a small loopy design in the borders
next, the first of the larger quilt tops, which I layered with a lovely thick fleece with footballs on it. I got most of the quilting done by the end of the afternoon
with a large meander (which Malcolm thought looked like clouds) in the main part
and a small loopy design in the border - but I have had to turn the quilt to the wrong side to show you that, as it doesn't show on the right side
I had a search today and unearthed photos (these are real photos, so I took photos of them, so they are not very good!) of the very first Linus quilt that I made. The first one shows me holding up the unfinished quilt at a show-and-tell
then a rather fuzzy photo of the finished quilt
the note on the left is from Doreen, who was my first "Linus lady", with the thank you note on the right from Molly's parents. I still get a lump in my throat when I read them (you can click on the photo to enlarge it if you can't read the notes)
to finish ........ my special tea in a special mug. I have had this mug since the the 90s, when I won it at a Quilters' Guild Regional Day, when my lucky programme number was drawn by Lynne Edwards, who had been one of the speakers
along with a lot of other members, I was disappointed when the Guild changed its logo from the classic block to this strange design, which could be the corporate logo of any sort of company, and doesn't suggest quilting (although I am no longer a member of the Guild, I still have all my badges!)