Another quilt finish and I am delighted with it! It turned out better than I had hoped and is so colourful. I tried a different quilting approach this time as I broke the quilt down into three parts and quilted them separately, then I joined the three pieces together and I think it worked. It certainly made the quilting process much easier. The quilt is for my daughter and she is thrilled with it herself. She is moving away from home soon to start a fifteen month internship not returning until Sept 2014 to complete her fourth year in college. She is looking forward to putting this on her bed and I hope to have two pillow shams to match before the time comes. Good news is she will be returning home some weekends as it is not that far away and it is in a lovely part of the country that I look forward to visiting too.
Also this week I lucky enough to attend an event in the Mansion House which is the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. The event was attended by the Lord Mayor Naoise O Muiri and the Australian Ambassador to Ireland Dr Ruth Adler and was staged to showcase the unique memorial "Roses from the Heart" by Dr Christina Henri who also attended. The reason I was there was because some time ago a friend of mine who came across the "Roses from the Heart" memorial bonnets thought it would be a good idea to make some bonnets and be part of this. A group of us got together here at my house and between numerous cups of tea, coffee, lunch and chat proceeded to cut out a small number of bonnets to embroider and make up, but before long, due to the hard work and encouragement of my friend a whole ship load of bonnets were completed by our local embroiderers group commemorating the women convicts transported to Australia on The Andromeda. It was lovely to be invited and meet Christina who started this worthwhile project.
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