Flora Quilt

I am super excited as my Flora Quilt is the cover girl on the latest Quiltmania magazine. It's such a honour to have it cosen for the front cover. I absolutely adored making this quilt as i was able to delve into all my gorgeous reproduction fabrics for the puss in the corner and the Broderie Perse blocks. The original inspiration came from a quilt made in the 19th century in Co Sligo. Happy Stitching Sue

Solidarity Block

Quiltmania are running an online free project. It’s called a Solidarity and you can read about in on their blog.
This is my block which has been done in rather a hurry as I was only asked to do it on Thursday. They have now published it on their blog.
Here is mine.

Happy Christmas

Wishing you all a very a Happy Christmas.

Sue

My Jane Pizar

After well over three years I have completed my version of the Jane Pizar quilt this is held at my local museum in Cheltenham where I live.
I first saw her in 2010 and in 2014 got permission from the museum to measure and take detailed photos of her.
The original quilt or should I say coverlet is really large 108 1/2 x 91 1/2. It consists of the centre and 54 blocks. As it’s so large I decided to only make 40 of the blocks so may be I should call her in The Spirit of Jane Pizar.
My friend drew the centre up for me to get me started but then sadly died so I then decided I had to find a way of drawing the circle blocks. I had never done anything like this before and dug out my late husband geometry set and stared playing on graph paper . A couple of friends who I shall call my quilt fairies drew a couple of blocks for me too.
So some 3 years later I have finished her.
I wasn’t working on this project the whole time but the last year has been all time consuming with it.

Now to get her quilted.
My dog Mia has sat many an hour while I’ve been making this and I think she’s pretty glad it’s finished
Happy Stitching.
Sue

Di Ford Hall and Alzheimers

Thing's happen that prompt me to be writing on my blog again.

I hear from dear Lori at Humble Quilts http://humblequilts.blogspot.co.uk/that her mum has passed away after her long struggle with Alzheimer's. It's such a cruel disease that not only robs someone of their mind but robs a family of the person they once knew. 

Recently an unbelievable thing happened with Di Ford Hall contacting me to ask if I would like her Rotherfield  Grey quilt to raffle to raise funds for The Alzheimers Society. I cannot tell you how overwhelmed I am with this generous donation. 

Those of you who in my early blog days followed my journey with my own husband's Alzheimers illness know what this offer of raising  some funds for the charity means to me. 

This horrible illness dosen't discriminate when it comes to age as my husbands begain at the age of 52. 

 If you think you would like to buy tickets for this worthy cause please email me. 

Tickets are 1.00 each or 5.00 a book of 5. It will be drawn on the 19th November at Cowslip Workshops by Christine Butler from BBC Spotlight and Radio Cornwall.

I can receive money through PayPal for overseas participants but would have to send you a photo of your ticket numbers through email. 

Di has kindly offered to pay for the shipping too so please support us in our bid to raise as much as we can for the beautiful quilt for the benefit of The Alzheimers Society. 

Here is Rotherfield Grey quilt that is featured in Di's book Primarily Quilts published by Quiltmania.

Thank you all and please keep Lori in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time for her. 

Sue