Stash Building

This is the recent haul. I love the pink and grey roses on the black background, I wish they had had some more of the green, but will have to keep on going back as the ladies didn't know where it came from and I couldn't find it on the shelves, and the pink and yellow will fit Sunburst perfectly.

1/4 inch seams

I noticed that this topic is quite common on everyone's blogs. I have the most terrible problems as have never, ever been able to sew or cut a straight line (which is why I prefer the Tonya style of quilting). Sewing machines, feet and bobbins are one of the current topics on Crafters and someone came up with Jaycotts in the UK. Scroll about 3/4's down the page and you will come across a little gizmo which should help with 1/4 inch seams. A tad expensive , but if you are a perfectionist it may help. There is also a whole loads of quilting stuff on there and they ship to the US.

More Blocks Received From ........

Anne - whose heart applique is gorgeous Katja - wow - 4 blocks! Can you put the photos on your blog? My connection is soooo slow today it would take an age for me to do it. New quilt ruler time :-) so a demain.

Stash Building and Sacs au Recycle

Last minute decision yesterday to go to Nontron for a quick shop which meant going via Javerlhac. Had a lovely rummage about in the huge cardboard box of remnants and found some lovely bits and pieces for Sunburst, a gorgeous piece of black with pink and grey roses on it and some teddy bear material for a baby quilt. Also stocked up in the thread department. Pictures will be shown after the material has been washed. Eventually ended up at Super U and Alex and I headed off to the check-outs to ransack the carrier bags for the lovely people who are doing blocks for me. Oh calamity, calamity, calamity! They are revolting - ghastly grey fish on a white background one side and stainless steel spoons on the other! Rest assured that Alex and I are on the case. You might have to make do with a Shopi one. It won't be the same design as the one Fiona showed us, but the colours are gorgeous.

The Quilt(s) - where are they going?

Emails and text messages have been flying backwards and forwards between me and Sophie and we have finally come up with an answer as to where all your kindness and love is going to, we think. LRFUK cannot auction them as hoped, so it's Plan B folks! Sophie and Floyd regularly visit children with Leukaemia in various hospitals and hospices in the London area so I think we have decided that we are going to try to make as many "children sized" quilts as possible with the blocks that we receive and donate them to the childrens' wards of those hospitals/hospices. I am hoping that Great Ormond Street Hospital will be one of the recipients. They visited one little boy this weekend who has had to have his testes removed as the Leukaemia has come back - I think he needs some love from around the world don't you? Don't worry if you think you cannot make a block in time. I can't see me getting all the quilts finished this side of Christmas. So keep them coming and lets see how many quilts we can make between, say, now and the end of January. All I've got to do is find a source for the backing and wadding! I am now going to chill out with a well deserved cup of tea and Ox and Xs!

Phew!

It's taken me all morning (what a dreadful waste of a lovely sunny day) to get up and running again, but I think I have done it. If I have missed anyone off the "Leukaemia" list then shout - my eyes are going! Brigette - I will get back to you. Many, many thanks.