Crafty Query (and a post for Plum)

A friend's mum was clearing some accumulated junk from Grandma's house, and a box of cotton reels came my way - lovely filled mini wooden reels - there are nearly 50 of them, unused, all vibrant gem colours:

And all, as far as I can tell, different colours: these blues, pinks, greens, reds and yellows all differ!!

I never say no to threads anyway, but I'd love to use these as they are, and make something beautiful with them - got any ideas?

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Last Monday the Richmond & Key Quilters had a handbag collection exhibition - not *of* handbags, but a collection that fits *into* a handbag!

My lovely friend Plum was too drained to make it to the meeting, so I took dozens of photos for her.  We were asked to use photos for private use only, but I can tell you that they were incredible.

Plum - I've loaded them to my Private Use tab for you  :-)  Hope you are feeling better xx

While I'm Working

I'm plodding though what looks like a thousand jumpers, poloshirts and sweatshirts - a great way to fund my fabric habit, but very boring to blog about.

So instead, I thought I'd share some more Quilts from the Festitval of Quilts last week.  These are together as they respresent pictures.  As before, the pics in the mosaic, and other pictures are on the 'Private Use' page.  Click [here] for the link, or use the tab above

Private Pictures

Some Quilt Festivals ask that any photos taken are for private use only: as this blog is more a record for me, and doesn't have a very high readership anyway I'm going to hope it's OK to post a few mosaics here of some of the quilt photos I took at Festival of Quilts.  The original photos are being loaded to the Private Use tab (see above)

These first quilts are mini quilts, generally 8 or 10 inches high.  To give you a point of reference, the wooden 'pole' they are hanging from is 1cm diameter!

 The winning quilt was a whole cloth - again remember that the pole is 1cm!!!