Back in the groove...

Nice to get back in the groove of everyday life.

I would especially enjoy seeing pictures of the Welsh and Durham quilts. My sister is very active in a Cornish Welsh Society. All these years I thought we were Irish but now my sister tells me we are Cornish.

Susan

It was lovely to see you both, Kate (I mean DD and you, not your multiple personality) ;-)

The ground floor looks really under control now, and I keep going into the cupboard under the stairs when I want some peaceful time! Thank you both, it was a work of love.

The Welsh quilts can wait for another day to be done properly. Here are the photos I took through to show Sandie Lush at her class on Welsh Wholecloth. She was particularly enthusiastic about the square, blue one. Hope the ;ink works...

Giggle... I know, but sometimes I do feel like there are several people arguing inside this head!

It was quite cathartic in a way, and has inspired me to do something similar to our own under-sytairs Glory Hole! We tossed a remarkably small amount of stuff, but just sorting and boxing the screws and nails was a lesson in packing density! ;)

Folks, if they live to be 900, Nel and family will never need to buy another screw, nail, or picture hook, and they are ALL readily accessible! Just as soon as we can, I'm headding out to get similar little freezer boxes and a Sharpie! ;)

And I have filed away that trick with the carpets... I have a couple of rugs that will benefit!

We'll do them at New Year, if plans go ahead as you'd like - or sooner if we can. Half Term might be a good time to show you just how large you godson really is!

TRhe link worked just fine, and the pix are not at all bad, but Alan and the fancy Cannon might do some you are happier with for your article.

We forgot to do the buttonholes!

Those are gorgeous, Nel! I do love wholecloth quilts, and these are exquisite. :)

Thanks for the wholecloth photos. The quilting is amazing. If I show these to my sister she will want me to make one and my quilting skills are more grid and stitch in the ditch style. She has little idea of the skill one needs to complete a wholecloth quilt with such designs. Are the quilts pictured cotton or satin?

Susan

The quilts are mostly cotton sateen, but the stuffing is mixed stuff. One is wool another is shoddy and I'm not sure what is on some of them.

These quilts were the life's work of my Great Aunty, one Cecilia Evans, n=E9e Jones. She was born in South Wales and stayed there all her life. Because she was considered frail, she was made to become a seamstress, rather than continue to a profession like her sisters. She outlived all of them!

We did some detective work on the quilts and came up with an order of working. The last one was finished in the early 1950s and the earliest one done just after the First World War. (She was born in

There is one quilt, which we thought was hers, but may turn out to be from my other family side. They were Durham people and the style is quite different. The Welsh quilts are built round a central medallion and the Durham ones are done in strips. This reflects the ways of working as Durham workers used a frame whereas Welsh quilters worked in-hand or in a hoop. (Obviously this statement is not universal, there will be anomalies!) Aunty Cis never used a hoop or frame.

I'm still doing some research on them, will let you know how I get on.

Nel (Gadget Queen)

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