All quiet in Crowborough today without my quilting friends. We had such a good time together and I feel as though we have known each other for years instead of months.

I hope you all enjoy their pictures - they have quite a few!!

Happy quilting.

D

Hever Castle

Home of Anne Boleyn before Henry VIII.

Ho ho

Bags

Our bags are multiplying!!

Train

Here we go to Crowborough!!

London

Hi all--Patty and I are having a great time in London. We have been to Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, British Museum, Churchill Museum War Rooms, National Gallery(briefly), and St. Paul's Cathedral. Last night we saw "Billy Elliot" which was outstanding and
of course lots of shopping and lots of walking too. Tomorrow we are off to Dorothy's which will be a challenging train trip (one hour) with all our bags & more. More later--C

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Rainy day

Rainy day--Shopping

Pub

We thought this was an interesting name for a pub. Esp. after just seeing the Tower of London. C

Yeoman guide for the tower

Tower

Third time is a charm--no rain!!

Buckingham

Patty working on phone access this is an issue. Just took a tour of Buckingham palace. C

Through the first hurdle -- security. Hurrah!!

Quilt Day

Hi here are some pictures from our Quilt Day at church. We met today and about 20 or more women participated with tying, pinning, laying out quilts, sewing tops and bindings and lots of pressing etc. Such fun and look at how beautiful they all look displayed in the sancutary. I think the count of quilts is 45, (not all made just today but all through the year). Hopefully the quilts will make a lot of people warm and comfortable. We send them off, soon, with much love!!

Sarah's new puppy--Rue Bee Rose

Fiesta

One done!!

Fiesta Paper Pieced Quilt Project

Here is a project I have had for a while. It is kind of a kit, they added enough batiks to "get started". So I have added what I had left over from some other things and although I don't have the borders and backing etc I am getting started as you can see in the picture on the left, with the Block 1 (you make two of these). There are 24 blocks totally, all the spiky ones are paper pieced, which I love to do. I am turning over a new leaf after that horrible, UGH Spider Web Quilt and going for accuracy not speed. Let's see how long this lasts!! Applique project is underway also. C

Fall Appliqué

Here is the start of the first block. I love the fabrics and the patterns but I think she, the designer, has made the blocks too big. This one will be 20" finished. I am probably too fussy. C

These are the bags I am taking for the week in England. We will see how much I can jam in. C

Christmas??

From Macy's just a little while ago. C

Testing my ability to send messages to the blog.
Sent from my iPhone --christine brown

A Bag of Fabric

Hi all, when I arrived home there was a shopping bag of fabric scraps. All pieces were at least 8 1/2" wide so I knew they were meant to be cut up for LWR quilts etc. I am pretty sure the bag came from Marjie, but let me know if I am wrong.Well it sat there for about 5 days and then I started in on it. Who knows what comes over me and I do such a thing. but I cut three LWR quilt kits including bindings and one backing from the fabrics and this AM cut 12 school bags from the last, large, heavier fabric. HURRAY!! I love it!! I was so inspired that I sewed together a Lap quilt for Winchester House Nursing Home and put together 6 LWR sewing kits and 3 LWR layettes. I only had to run out to Target for a few layette items. I have already put the sewing kits, layettes and 13 finished LWR quilts in my car for the Quilting day planned at Grace Lutheran for next Sat. See Nancy's comment after the 8/27 post "Marilyn's Comments" to learn more about Lutheran World Relief and the Quilting Day. She also has some good links in the comment.

Here is a brief supply list for the:

LWR Quilts- 64"x 80" made from 80-8 1/2" blocks of varying degrees of beautiful coordination,(meaning some are ugly and some are very pretty!!) plus 8-2 1/2" strips for the binding. These kits our volunteers sew together and tie.

LWR Sewing Kits include, 3 yards of fabric, one spool of thread, one card of buttons and 12 needles.

LWR Layettes include in various sizes from 3 months to 24 months-- 2 receiving blankets, 2 onesies, 2 sleepers, 1 sweater, 4 flat fold diapers, 2 washcloths, 1 bar of soap and 2 diaper pins.

If you go to the sites that Nancy mentions in her comment, you will learn how the above kits and quilts are used. It really inspires me to do more.

Thanks for the bag of fabric!!

Libertyville

Today is just beautiful and I just got home from walking the dogs. Zelda here in the house and yard, with only a few minor head-on collisions with posts and furniture. I think because she has lived here her whole life, all is very familiar. So now to get ready for my England trip. Patty and are very excited and working on only taking carry-ons for our week+ trip. It is a challenge! I think you will see a lot of black/gray outfits in our pictures. I have worked it so I am going to be able to blog using my iphone from England so hopefully you see get a DAILY update with pictures.

Our other big news is that Sarah is getting a Schnauzer puppy next week. She is a distant relative of Z and D's and we think black and silver and her name is Ruby. She was born 7/12 which is Sarah's BD too, and hence the name Ruby, for July's birthstone. Cute. I will post pictures of her as soon as I have them, probably next Friday. Will try to post again this weekend, sorry I have been remiss with the move home etc. Love you all, C

I spent all of yesterday helping to hang quilts at our Quilter's Guild Region quilt show at Hever Castle, Kent. It is held in a marquee in the beautiful grounds of the castle. You would be bowled over by its beauty. The castle was the home of Anne Boleyn before she married Henry VIII and still looks very impressive, surrounded by a moat. I am on duty at the show now for the whole weekend, so we hope to get a good turnout. There are some lovely quilts there, so people should enjoy it and the walk around the grounds will please their "other halves" I should think.

Good luck with the packing Christine - you are a glutton for punishment moving from house to house I think!! I have been painting my sewing room and all the "stuff" (so much fabric, patterns, notions and goodness knows what) that was in it, is scattered about the upstairs of our house and it looks terrible up there. I can't wait to sort it out but can't even think of it until after this weekend. Oh well, it will still be there next week!
D