Crab & Winkle

We had a lovely sewing day led by Maggie making quite large hexagons either strip or foundation pieced. Maggie's completed quilt uses her own fairtrade fabrics and is embellished with rick rack while her second work in progress is a masterpiece of simplicity. So effective. I had already planned to make a similar quilt and on my US trip last Autumn had collected lots of fabrics, especially modern large scale West minster type prints. Maggie with her artist's eye arranged them into various sequences for me. Meanwhile Melanie used recycled shirts which also worked well with this pattern. Pam was undoing and restitching blue English paper pieced hexagons. Mary worked on various projects during the day and last thing in the afternoon completed  a bright log cabin type cot quilt for an about to arrive young relative.