28/03/2009 by Erica.

It has just been announced at the Quilters Guild AGM that Anna is joint winner of the 2009 Sue Belton Award. This is a fantastic achievement although no surprise to those of us who know her and her wonderful standard of work. I am absolutely thrilled for her and for Loose Threads. We shall all have to go next year’s AGM to see her work on display.

The timing is good too as Anna had her op yesterday and is now recovering at the Royal Marsden - where she has been sewing a wallhanging to be hung at the hospital. Keving reports that she is doing well, I am sure she will feel even better when she finds out about this!

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28/03/2009 by Erica.

I haven’t blogged in a week or two and it is because I always talk about sewing and I haven’t done a awful lot - though I certainly have wanted to! For me sewing is both a challenge - creating a new design - and the best way I know of relaxing when it comes to the actual stitching. The trouble is, the second aspect relies on the first, which in turn relies on a certain amount of uninterrupted time and I haven’t had much of this. I am now very aware that term ends next Friday, so I must make some time this week to get a new project underway.

And I have another problem. I have got a quilt that is half quilted but I realised last week that I had not picked it up in the evening for nearly a fortnight. I thought about this and realised that I was not enjoying the quilting method and pattern that I had chosen and then I came up with a much better one! So what do I do now? I have quilted nearly half of the twenty-five blocks, and I do love the rayon thread that I am using - do I unpick it and start again? Or do I finish the perfectly adequate existing pattern? There is a Loose Threads meeting next week and this is a warning to all my friends there - you will be asked your opinion.

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