A spot of sewing!

This is what I have been doing over a period of some weeks! Mary’s idea of making quilts to donate to hospital or refuge or wherever, seems like a very good one! So, I have been using up various pieces of material which have been stored here just waiting for a project!

It’s a technique called quilt as you go, and involves sewing the pieces together on both sides around the inside wadding all at the same time. The beauty of the process is that you can make large quilts without having the struggle of trying to push a huge quilt through the sewing machine whilst attempting the decorative stitching, which is usually the final process. 

This might be appealing to a few more people...

Sue and Virginia have been busy in the kitchen...

When I asked if Sue does home deliveries, she said no! 

It does look good! 

Here are Virginia’s Easter biscuits, a Mary Berry recipe with added nutmeg! 

Mary is making a quilt!

When I have all pieces cut and sewn ready to put together I’ll do pictures of different arrangements of squares and triangles to show  what you can do very easily

These are the other materials to be incorporated 

Watch this space,  unfortunately the lovely weather is going to take me away but as I have no plants as yet I’ll make do with my flowery material I expect! 💐😄
Just thought, I’ll add one more to these when I have sewn the triangle showing how it’s done.   

A contribution from Lorna

This is a song, to the tune of Jerusalem, Lorna found amongst her papers!


And there are those who wonder why
We flock once a month to village halls
We go to enjoy our W.I.
And get away from Homes’ four walls
We learn our crafts and have a chat,
Hear speakers talk on this or that
We scout the countryside near or far
for fruit for one or two pound jar.

Bring us a store of ripened plums 
In our kitchens we will toil
We’ll stir the lot til evening comes,
Until we get a rolling boil.
And what if turmoil rule the World
Here in our kitchens we will stand
An we will sing Jerusalem
And make some green  and pleasant jam.

More activity....

Barbara and Karl have unwelcome visitors in their garden, and their craft activity on Tuesday, was to build this intricate design over their prized lawn. So far, so good. No sign of any badgers!

That achieved, Barbara moved in to her craft studio and created a gorgeous card! How fab is this!

Mouth watering... and a request....

I have been asking for photos of the different activities we have all been getting involved with! Would you look at what Tina has made! This should come with a warning! Can I hear the rumbling sound of hungry tummies? Or is it just mine!

The request is this: does anyone know where to buy some strong flour for bread making, please? There is no flour in Brixham - I went to every (open) shop in town yesterday! Oddly, there was a lot of bread marked down, near the sell by date! Everybody must be baking bread! I was looking for flour to make some scones for a virtual cream tea with friends this afternoon. In the end I bought some scones! Probably better, as I shan’t be able to eat as many!

Here is another idea ....

Rather a delicious one, this time! It comes from our WI college, Denman. If you have been there, you will have eaten these gorgeous biscuits!