FOQ 2

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Quite early on in the afternoon I went to the tombola run by the Contemporary quilt Group and was lucky enough to win a quilt.

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This little quilt was first machine pieced as a quilt top and then hand sewn. Unfortunately the maker preferred to remain anonymous but I am pleased to have won it. (The colour's a little out in my photo, sorry).

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On Saturday I went back for another crack and won this festive quilt which is entitled "Looking forward to family celebrations" by Stitch by Stitch from Port Talbot. Are you out there, Stitch by Stitch? It's a lovely quilt and will be a great addition to our Christmas decorations. (Oops! sorry for the "C" word in August!)

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I spent a while looking at the Art Quilts (more of which later) before going to find Sandra who I have met while blogging and IRL. Sandra was busy on the Little Gems tombola and before I knew it I had volunteered myself to help fold tickets for the next day. Sandra and I spent a lovely evening in the company of some of her friends having a meal at their hotel. Mind you, we nearly didn't find it! Some fool ;-) had put a load of scaffolding round it and taken all the signs down so we couldn't tell it was a hotel. We nearly ended up in the middle of Birmingham with no dinner! Fortunately by the time we turned round and came back for a second look we spotted a small sign. It kept us laughing anyway! :-) I have to thank Sandra and her friends for making me so welcome :-)
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By the time we had had a leisurely meal and re-found our own hotel, (as Sandra tried to drive, with me frantically looking out for signposts and shouting,"straight on!, turn here!, keep going round!") we were exhausted and ready to fall into bed. Hysterical laughter wasn't far away. Actually, as exhausted as I was, I chilled out watching the Corrie repeat and then slept like a log!

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If you click the link to Sandra's blog you will see some of the detail of her Quilt Creation which I have shown below. It is titled "Wildwood -A Story of Life and Death". The pages of the book are partially see through to give a feeling of light showing through the trees as Sandra explains in her blog. I apologise to Sandra if my colours are a bit out but the light made photography really tricky at the show.

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I have many more photos of the show itself but have not uploaded all of them yet so I'll come back to the quilts later.