March has been a very busy month in this neck of the woods! It started with Paisley Patchers meeting on the 1st with a great evening listening to and laughing with Claire Tinsley's with her talk "You Paint your Quilts?" and oohing and ahing over her quilts :-) Next day was an all day workshop with Claire which was such fun and had us all thinking out of our little boxes! The end of that week saw me at the Sewing and Craft show at the Glasgow SECC where I had planned not to spend much or even any money..............why do these plans never materialise ( grin).
The next week saw another all-day workshop on Thursday with the Kilbirnie Sew and Sews, where Bonnie Mc Kerracher had us making a bag with a Crazy patchwork front...........I have never done Crazy patchwork before and if the truth be told I am not a great fan of it, but I did enjoy the class. The Saturday of that week was up to Perth for the Region 16 of the Quilters Guild regional day. Two great and inspirational speakers in Christine Porter and Sheena Norquay with great examples of their quilts.
The next week was the AGM of Lochwinnoch SWRI and an interesting talk on Mauchline ware. Thursday a concert with the RSNO playing the great Mahler 6.
Last week I was at a two day workshop on Goldwork Embroidery where we learnt such a lot and I thoroughly enjoyed, also trying to fit in loads of baking and sorting out stuff for the Paisley Patchers Quilt Show on Saturday. The show seemed to go very well with lots of wonderful quilts to enjoy and visitors being very complimentary about them.
This week finds us back to winter weatherwise and me hunkering down recovering from all that buzz and trying to shed a cold! Quilting-wise getting back to tackling some UFOs and hoping next week and over the Easter weekend getting some work done in the garden, if the weather will allow!
3 comments:
I hope you manage to get to spend some time in the garden. I love the garden it's just such an inspiration.
Hi Elma. I've been visiting some of my followers and was delighted to find someone from Scotland.
It's good to know that there are some quilt guilds in Scotland. My husband is from Motherwell and tries to get over every year. I haven't been able to go with him the past number of years because of caring for my Mother, but will do in the future.
Wow you have had a very busy March with workshops and quilt shows and Gold work too, I do hope the weather changed for you to get into the garden.
It appears the weather has been odd all over the globe this year, I live in Florida a semi tropical climate and every week we have had freezes which is quite rare, I ache to get my garden planted but feel I need to wait one more week to be sure the freezes are passed.
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