Saturday, 9 May 2026

Chartham Hatch Day

 We missed Judi who is in America hopefully having a lovely time in Pennsylvania. We had a sewing bee stitching on the binding of our raffle quilt discovering that  some of us do so (including me) with  the front facing up and some with the back facing up. Who knew?


Centre detail


Belinda had brought two quilts from Carrie's estate one for our sales table and the Leicin taupes one to keep.We were all very taken with the simple design and made note. I think it will be useful for the latest batch of Carrie charity quilt fabric I  have.

Close up



Maggie has been busy quilting lots of tops including the brilliant Scheswhe one for her grandsdon continuing her mother's tradition and the Carrie fabric charity sailboats one.


For her grandson



No more sewing for me as i have a bad fall and broken a small bone at the base of my little finger. the little finger is strapped to my king finger and the whole hand is swollen and very painful. It's early days. According to one onlooker "That was one crazy fall". Someone had let two metal handles fall out of their car and they weren't picked up by them or the onsite workers at the recycling centre.They had a small roller attached to them and that's what I hit and flew up into the air.


Monday, 4 May 2026

Paint Chips quilt

It's so obvious now
The illusion is different this way up and
the mis-sewn piece even more obvious.


 












Easiest Scrap Quilt Ever

is a Revelation Quilts tutorial on YouTube and I thought it would be a quick but very effective quilt finish for a teenager out there



I found a long ago pack of 150 differerent (the whole range?) Fossil Fern 4.5" charm squares so I based my block on a 4" finished square. I sewed one wrong but didn't spot it till Julie pointed it out and even kindly unpicked it for me. Sewing it back the right way round was my first sewing job on getting home.



Sunday, 3 May 2026

Round up

 More pieces showed up on our last day. We got so much done.

Julie's Quilt of the Crosses

Cgharity quilt



Detail

Maggie's EPP WIP

Chris's with Carrie's fabric


Deatail

Mandy's mega piecing project

Charity quilt
I have pieced some remaining simple marks
 fabrics into oblong squares ready to snowball.

Maggie designed this block on the spot and
used Carrie's fabric to make a super top.

Maggie's Yacht Quilt





I thinkthis may be donated blocks Yvette has sewn together





Jane's from an Edyta Sitar kit

Saturday, 2 May 2026

Show & Tell

 We had quite a formal show & tell session this time gathered round with lots to see including many made using Carrie's fabric.

A favourite pattern of the Bluebell
charity makers

Chris's

Kathy's

Kathy's

Kathy's

Debbie's for Bluebells with Carrie's fabric

Debbie's Fun quilt

Detail of Jane's

Jane's with lovely shirtings started 30 years ago

Yvette for Linus

Yvette

Yvette assembled stained glass blocks
donated to Linus

Yvette's blocks made with bonus triangles

The whole bonus triangle quilt

Yvette's Swoon source of bonus triangles

And a quilt Yvette tarted long ago which was "boring" to make

Detail

Julie's

Detail

And another very pretty one


Also Julie's , a very pretty block

Mandy's

Chris's to go on a wall

Also Chris's

Chris's Suffolk Puffs

Chris's too also in the samr colour range

Colette's very graphic top

Maggie's fine piecing

Maggie's quilt

Detail

Maggie's