Remember at the beginning we worked out the timetable so that all the quilts are back to me by the 24th April 2014 as the rules state (go back to page 1 to read again) but the Loch Lomond Quilt Show is not on until the May. This is so we are sure they are all in this country with me as they all need to be processed and made sure everything is fine before they are hung. There are 22 groups doing the Chinese Whisper challenge so it will take time to do everything plus the other exhibitions.

Hey, I thought it was April too! Are you trying to trick us Maureen?

twiglet wrote:
Wendy did you forget it is May not April : : : : : :

and we're all pitching up at Maureens next April. She'll have room then, the quilts will have gone

Wow Wendy, even on its side your birch trees quilt is beautiful. I really love your use of colour in this one. So good.

Now about that international sleepover/pot luck thing.....I have a house....but I don't think it's big enough for everybody, sorry! Who wants to sleep on the floor? In the loo? On the landing? No, I guess some of us are too old for that now. Although one of my quilting friends chose to sleep out under the stars (well in the gazebo actually) when we were in Dingle last summer. It was pretty cold but she was happy as a pig in s..t! We expected to find her dead from hypothermia the following morning but she was hale and hearty, if a little troubled by her hayfever!

Impressive birches!

What would you want to trade learning to tile and serving the chickens for?

Some maple syrup - it's the season! Or a few French lessons?

I think we need to plan an international retreat - you know, share our stuff...

Rosemary, I think you'd be good at organizing that! Or if anyone has a really big house, we could do the sleep over/potluck thing.

You're on, Wendy! It was a lot of fun!!!

Then you'll have to teach me the tile background.

Wendy, if you let me come, I will feed the chickens too!

I'm so sorry Renata it was you who made that lovely quilt after the class. You do say nice things.

You ARE wickedly funny, Nancy!!! I'm kind of wondering when you will come up for air next and with what in your next picture... Have to admit, that was good!

Wendy, I really love what you did with your birch quilt--both the thread play on the trunks and the background. I thought that was reminiscent of a Gloria Loughman background... I took the class with her last September in Philadelphia and loved it. I'm still waiting to find something to use her diamond technique on (I used her tile technique in a small quilt of a Myrtle Beach, North Carolina sunrise last fall). Everytime you put your hands on fabric you turn it into something magical, Wendy. If I come over, will you let some of it rub off on me?

Nancy, What a tease!

Wendy, your birches are beautiful!

Very nice, Wendy. You have a very lucky friend.

Have a good rest in Belfast then Maureen and enjoy your family

The indigo dyeing sounds fascinating.