  Hello and Welcome to QuiltStory. Now that Autumn has arrived many of us quilters can thankfully put aside our garden tools and really concentrate on sewing!
However, sometimes it’s not quite as simple as that; I’m having to continue at least some gardening activities because it has been decided that our garden will be Open for the National Garden Scheme on 27th June next year so we can’t afford to neglect any of those cutting back and propagating tasks which are best done at this time of year. When I say ‘our’ garden, I mean the walled garden here at The Brown House, but this is mainly tended by Tim Longville, my ‘other half’. My own gardening takes place at another walled garden at The Priory, on the other side of the Square where we live. That garden had been neglected for a long time but a couple of years ago I took it in hand and, with the help of some friendly volunteers, it’s slowly being reclaimed. The Priory Garden, too, will be Open on 27th June 2010.
O.K. After that ‘gardening digression’ I’ll now getting back to the patchwork and quilting aspects of life which have certainly not been neglected recently. The programme of Classes and Workshops which I run from home continue as enthusiastically as ever, with a mixed group of learners and ‘improvers’. My own current work is mainly centred on exploring and developing some patterns based on Moorish tile designs, a great passion of mine over many years. I’ve also managed to make some of the many blocks which were made to illustrate books I’ve written, and which were then returned to me by the publishers (there were, originally, over 300 of them!), into Sampler quilts, a quick job when you have all the blocks to hand and use a machine-quilt-as-you-go technique.
The current issue of Quilt Studies, the Journal of the British Quilt Studies, was published in the summer and my paper which I read at last year’s Seminar is included there.
Next year, I have two early bookings, Helensburgh Quilters in February, and the Quilter’s Guild Region 15(E) Regional Day in March, both of which involve a Talk and a Workshop, so I shall shortly be preparing for those. Funny thing is, however many times you repeat a particular Talk or Workshop, somehow MORE preparation always seems to be needed! I do hope I’ll meet some of you on my travels next year.
Best wishes and very happy patchworking and quilting.
Celia
Hope to see some of my regular readers at Loch Lomond.
Best wishes and happy quilting to you all.
Celia
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